High Cut-off Hemodialysis in Patients With Advanced Cardiac AL Amyloidosis and End Stage Renal Disease (DIACAL)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01531751 |
Recruitment Status :
Withdrawn
First Posted : February 13, 2012
Last Update Posted : March 21, 2018
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Primary Amyloidosis of Light Chain Type | Device: High Cut-off Hemodialysis Drug: Chemotherapy | Phase 2 |
This will be a single-center phase II open label trial. Subjects with advanced cardiac AL amyloidosis and end-stage renal disease will undergo HCO-HD while receiving chemotherapy for their plasma cell dyscrasia according to the current standards of care.
After giving written informed consent, the patients will be evaluated for eligibility. Briefly, the subjects with a biopsy-proven diagnosis of AL amyloidosis who are cardiac stage 3 based on NT-proBNP (> 332 ng/L) and cTnI (> 100 ng/L) and whose estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) is < 15 mL/min per 1.73 m2 will be eligible for the study. Patients with non-AL (e.g. familial and senile) amyloidosis will be excluded, as well as subjects who have less than 100 mg/L circulating amyloidogenic FLC. Sixteen patients will be enrolled.
The study includes 3 periods: screening, treatment followed by the end-of-treatment evaluation and follow-up. During dialysis the patients will undergo the first cycle of chemotherapy according to the current standard of care for subjects with advanced cardiac AL amyloidosis. Measurements of FLC and cardiac biomarkers will be done before and after each dialysis session. High cutoff HD will be continued during the first chemotherapy cycle. After the first cycle the end-of-treatment evaluation will take place. Follow-up evaluations will be performed after the end of each subsequent chemotherapy cycle and every 2 months after chemotherapy discontinuation for 1 year or until disease progression occurs.
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 0 participants |
Allocation: | N/A |
Intervention Model: | Single Group Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | An Open Label Phase II Trial of Free Light Chain Removal by Extended High Cut-Off Hemodialysis in Patients With Advanced Cardiac AL Amyloidosis and End-Stage Renal Disease. |
Actual Study Start Date : | February 2015 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | December 2015 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | December 2015 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: High Cut-off Hemodialysis |
Device: High Cut-off Hemodialysis
During dialysis the patients will undergo the first cycle of chemotherapy according to the current standard of care for subjects with advanced cardiac AL amyloidosis. Measurements of FLC and cardiac biomarkers will be done before and after each dialysis session. High cutoff HD will be continued during the first chemotherapy cycle. After the first cycle the end-of-treatment evaluation will take place.
Other Name: Theralite Drug: Chemotherapy Chemotherapy will be based on alchilators, proteasome inhibitors, steroids, IMiDs. |
- Survival [ Time Frame: 6 months ]The primary objective will be to assess survival of patients with advanced cardiac AL amyloidosis treated with HCO-HD combined with chemotherapy.
- tolerability of the experimental device [ Time Frame: 1 month ]Secondary objectives will be to assess the feasibility and tolerability of HCO-HD in patients with advanced cardiac AL amyloidosis, the efficiency of HCO-HD plus chemotherapy in reducing amyloidogenic FLC in this setting, and the ability of this approach to promote improvement of cardiac dysfunction as assessed by biomarkers.

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | Female |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Diagnosis of AL amyloidosis.
- Age ≥ 18 years.
- Evidence of a monoclonal light chain in serum and/or urine by positive immunofixation and abnormal FLC κ/λ ratio.
- Evidence of cardiac involvement at echocardiography (mean left ventricular wall thickness > 12 mm in the absence of other causes).
- Cardiac stage III (both NT-proBNP > 332 ng/L and cTnI > 100 ng/L).
- Estimated GFR < 15 mL/min per 1.73 m2 or requiring dialysis.
- NYHA class III or IV.
- Initiation of chemotherapy for AL amyloidosis scheduled between day 3 and day 8 after first HCO-HD session.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Non-AL (e.g. familial, senile) amyloidosis.
- Concomitant non-amyloid related clinically significant cardiac diseases.
- Involved (amyloidogenic) FLC < 100 mg/L.
- Inability to undergo chemotherapy for AL amyloidosis.
- Uncontrolled infection.
- Inability to give informed consent.
- Previous or ongoing psychiatric illness (excluding reactive depression).
- Pregnant or nursing women.

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01531751
Italy | |
Centro per lo Studio e la Cura delle Amiloidosi Sistemiche - Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico S.Matteo | |
Pavia, Italy, 27100 |
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Responsible Party: | Giampaolo Merlini, Director, Amyloidosis Research and Treatment Center, IRCCS Policlinico S. Matteo |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01531751 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
AC-005-IT |
First Posted: | February 13, 2012 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | March 21, 2018 |
Last Verified: | March 2018 |
HCO-HD survival cardiac biomarkers AL amyloidosis Light Chain Amyloidosis |
Immunoglobulin Light-chain Amyloidosis Amyloidosis Kidney Failure, Chronic Kidney Diseases Urologic Diseases Renal Insufficiency, Chronic Renal Insufficiency Proteostasis Deficiencies |
Metabolic Diseases Neoplasms, Plasma Cell Neoplasms by Histologic Type Neoplasms Lymphoproliferative Disorders Immunoproliferative Disorders Immune System Diseases Paraproteinemias |