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Adult Dengue Platelet Study (ADEPT)

T

Tan Tock Seng Hospital

Status

Completed

Conditions

Dengue Fever

Treatments

Other: Supportive care
Procedure: Platelet transfusion

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01030211
TTSH ADEPT

Details and patient eligibility

About

Retrospective data in children with dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) and dengue shock syndrome (DSS), and in adults with dengue fever (DF), suggested a lack of benefit from prophylactic platelet transfusion for severe thrombocytopenia in dengue patients without bleeding. However, in Taiwan and Singapore, platelet transfusion was given to 13-50% of hospitalised dengue patients. This is a prospective randomised study to examine the safety and efficacy of prophylactic platelet transfusion in adults with dengue and severe thrombocytopenia without bleeding.

The hypotheses are:

  1. Prophylactic platelet transfusion is safe in hospitalised dengue patients with severe thrombocytopenia.
  2. Prophylactic platelet transfusion is effective in preventing bleeding in hospitalised dengue patients with severe thrombocytopenia.

Full description

Patients fulfilling inclusion and exclusion criteria, and giving informed consent, will be randomised to a treatment arm of 4 units of platelets for every day they have a platelet count <20x10^3/uL, or a control arm with supportive care. Patients will be followed up daily till hospital discharge, and again at day 21.

It is assumed that the incidence of bleeding from randomization to Day 7 or discharge, whichever earlier, is 10% for the control (no transfusion) group and 5% for the intervention (transfusion) group. With 1:1 allocation ratio, to attain 80% power and one-sided 5% type I error rate, the required number of subjects in each arm is 382 by a Chi-square test with Yates' continuity correction. If a drop-out rate of 5% is allowed, the required number increases to approximately 400 per arm.

Enrollment

372 patients

Sex

All

Ages

21+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Age ≥ 21years

  2. Probable or confirmed dengue

    a) Confirmed dengue: laboratory confirmation of acute dengue by either i) positive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for viral ribonucleic acid (RNA), or ii)positive NS1 antigen test with a compatible clinical syndrome b) Probable dengue: Positive acute dengue serology and clinical presentation fulfilling either WHO 1997 or 2009 criteria for probable dengue.

    i) 1997 criteria: Acute febrile illness and two or more of the following:

    • headache,
    • retro-orbital pain,
    • myalgia,
    • arthralgia,
    • rash,
    • hemorrhagic manifestations,
    • leucopoenia ii) 2009 criteria: Fever and two of the following:
    • nausea/vomiting,
    • rash,
    • aches/pains,
    • positive tourniquet test,
    • leucopoenia,
    • one or more warning sign
    • abdominal pain/tenderness,
    • persistent vomiting,
    • clinical fluid accumulation,
    • mucosal bleed,
    • lethargy/restlessness,
    • liver enlargement >2cm,
    • increase in haematocrit concurrent with rapid decrease in platelet count
  3. Platelets ≤ 20x103/μL

Trial design

Primary purpose

Prevention

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

372 participants in 2 patient groups

Platelet transfusion
Active Comparator group
Description:
4 units of platelets for patients with platelet count \<20x10\^3/uL
Treatment:
Procedure: Platelet transfusion
Supportive care
Other group
Description:
No platelet transfusion for patients with platelet count \<20x10\^3/uL
Treatment:
Other: Supportive care

Trial contacts and locations

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