A Study of Iron Oligosaccharide in CHF Patients

Pharmacosmos

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 3

Conditions

Heart Failure, Congestive

Treatments

Drug: Iron oligosaccharide

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Industry

Identifiers

NCT00537186

EudraCT No.: 2007-000764-25

P-CHF-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine the safety profile of iron oligosaccharide in patients with congestive heart failure with a need for parenteral iron.

Full description

Iron dextrans have been marketed for more than 50 years and the compiled preclinical and clinical experience with iron dextrans in general is well established. Pharmacosmos A/S already markets the iron dextran CosmoFer® worldwide, except in the US where the product is named INFeD®. A new iron oligosaccharide has been manufactured by Pharmacosmos A/S and it is a further development of CosmoFer® where ferric hydroxide has been combined with low molecular weight oligosaccharides in a relatively strong complex. This iron carbohydrate complex builds on the well established efficacy and safety profile of existing iron dextran but with a significantly reduced anaphylactic potential.

In order to ensure that iron oligosaccharide will not lead to unexpected adverse events the existing clinical information on iron dextrans in general needs to be supplied with clinical safety data from a limited number of relevant patients exposed to iron oligosaccharide in open label non-comparator studies.

The primary objective of the present study is to obtain safety reassurance with the use of iron oligosaccharide given either as repeated IV boluses or as total dose infusion for the correction of anaemia in patients with congestive heart failure in order to ensure that iron oligosaccharide will not lead to unexpected adverse events in these patients.

Enrollment

20 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Congestive heart failure
≥ 18 years of age at screening
Haemoglobin < 110 g/L (or 6.8 mmol/L)
Serum ferritin < 800 µgram/L
Life expectancy beyond 12 months
Willingness to participate after written informed consent

Exclusion criteria

Non iron deficiency anaemia
Iron overload or disturbances in utilisation of iron (e.g. haemochromatosis, haemosiderosis)
Drug hypersensitivity (i.e. previous hypersensitivity to iron dextran or iron mono- or disaccharide complexes)
Patients with a history of multiple allergies
Decompensated liver cirrhosis and hepatitis (alanine aminotransferase > 3 times normal) Acute or chronic infections Rheumatoid arthritis with symptoms or signs of active inflammation. Pregnancy and nursing. To avoid pregnancy, women have to be postmenopausal, surgically sterile, sexually inactive or practice reliable contraception Active bleeding Planned elective surgery during the study where significant blood loss is expected Participation in any other clinical trial within 3 months prior to screening