Phase II Randomized Study of Muromonab-CD3, Cyclosporine, Methylprednisolone, and Prednisone in Patients With Giant Cell Myocarditis

Mayo Clinic

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 2

Conditions

Myocarditis

Giant Cell Myocarditis

Treatments

Drug: Muromonab-CD3

Drug: Cyclosporine

Drug: prednisone

Drug: methylprednisolone

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00004482

199/14209

MAYOC-1479900

MAYOC-1479901

Details and patient eligibility

About

OBJECTIVES:

I. Assess the effect of immunosuppression with muromonab-CD3, cyclosporine, methylprednisolone, and prednisone versus standard care in terms of death, heart transplantation, or left ventricular assistive device placement in patients with giant cell myocarditis.

II. Compare left ventricular ejection fraction prior to and after 4 weeks of treatment in these arms.

III. Compare the degree of myocardial inflammatory infiltrate prior to and after 4 weeks of treatment in these arms.

Full description

PROTOCOL OUTLINE:

This is a randomized, open label, multicenter study.

Patients are randomized to receive standard care with immunosuppression (arm I) or standard care with or without immunosuppression (no muromonab-CD3 or cyclosporine)(arm II).

Arm I: Patients receive methylprednisolone IV once daily for 3 days and muromonab-CD3 IV once daily for 10 days. Oral cyclosporine is administered twice daily and oral prednisone is administered once daily for 1 year.

Arm II: Patients receive standard care with or without immunosuppression (no muromonab-CD3 or cyclosporine).

Patients are followed for one year.

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

PROTOCOL ENTRY CRITERIA:

--Disease Characteristics--

Idiopathic giant cell myocarditis confirmed by endomyocardial biopsy

Heart failure and/or arrhythmia of less than 3 months duration

--Patient Characteristics--

Hepatic: AST/ALT no greater than 3 times upper limit of normal

Renal: Creatinine no greater than 2.5 mg/dL

Other: Not pregnant or nursing; Negative pregnancy test; Fertile patients must use effective contraception; No clinical evidence of sepsis or active infection (e.g. meningitis, osteomyelitis, etc.); No contraindication to immunosuppression; No allergy to cyclosporine or muromonab-CD3; No other severe concurrent diseases