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Endotoxins and Cytokines Removal During Continuous Hemofiltration With oXiris™

Endotoxins and Cytokines Removal During Continuous Hemofiltration With oXiris™

Status
Completed
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT03426943
Acronym
ECRO
Enrollment
39
Registered
2018-02-08
Start date
2018-12-21
Completion date
2022-06-03
Last updated
2023-12-05

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Peritonitis, Septic Shock

Brief summary

Sepsis is a major cause of death in Intensive Care Units and therefore finding new therapies to improve survival rates and limit morbidity is a major goal. Over the past decades, blood purification has been proposed as an adjuvant therapy for sepsis. The goal of blood purification is to restore the immune homeostasis and efficiency through the removal of bacterial products including endotoxins, broad-spectrum cytokines and other inflammatory mediators. Indeed, the large and overwhelmed release of these mediators in the early phase of sepsis may induce multiple organ failure syndrome. In 2017, different techniques are proposed for blood purification. Among them, the highly adsorptive membrane, oXiris™, seems promising. This membrane can be used in case of Acute Kidney Injury associated with sepsis and exhibits enhanced blood purification capacities. Previous studies on animals have already proven that this membrane can remove broad-spectrum cytokines but also endotoxins from the blood. This ability to remove endotoxins is particularly interesting since endotoxins are believed to be the trigger of the immune cascade at the initiation of sepsis. The lack of clinical evidence is the main limit to a wider use of this membrane. Therefore, the aim of the present clinical trial is to characterize the blood purification properties of the membrane in a human clinical setting. The oXiris™ membrane is specifically designed to improve the adsorptive capacities of the polyacrylonitrile-based AN69 membrane. Its extremely rich coating of polyethyleneimine (PEI) gives the membrane the ability to bind and remove not only cytokines but also endotoxins due to the positive charges of PEI at the surface of the membrane. The tested hypothesis is that the oXiris™ filter allows for a greater endotoxin and cytokine removal compared to a standard polysulfone (PrismafleX HF1400) filter in patients with septic shock.

Interventions

BIOLOGICALArterial blood sampling

All patients will have arterial blood sampling to assess pre-filter and post-filter plasma endotoxin mass and activity and plasma cytokine levels

BIOLOGICALUltrafiltrate sampling

All patients will have ultrafiltrate sampling to assess cytokine levels

DEVICECVVH using oXiris™ filter

Patients included in the experimental arm will have renal replacement therapy by performing CVVH using oXiris™ filter

DEVICECVVH using PrismafleX HF1400 filter

Patients included in the experimental arm will have renal replacement therapy by performing CVVH using PrismafleX HF1400 filter

Sponsors

Baxter Healthcare Corporation
CollaboratorINDUSTRY
Hospices Civils de Lyon
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Male or female aged ≥ 18 years old, * Early septic shock (in the first 12 hours after Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission or readmission in the ICU after surgery), with lactatemia \> 2 mmol/L and norepinephrine needs \> 0.2 µg/kg/min 2 hours after the end of the initial surgery (to ensure that a potential anesthesia effect as disappeared), * Secondary to a community-acquired or a nosocomial peritonitis (secondary or tertiary but not primary peritonitis), * AKI KDIGO ≥ stage 2 or another indication for renal replacement therapy, according to the clinician in charge (if baseline creatinine is unknown, KDIGO ≥ stage 2 can be defined by a serum creatinine ≥ 2-fold the normal creatinine for age, gender, and ethnicity).

Exclusion criteria

* Inability to obtain informed consent from the patient or next of kin, * Actual participation in another interventional study, * Contraindications to citrate, * Allergy to heparin, * Pregnant or breastfeeding woman, * Neutropenia \< 0.5 G/L resulting from chemotherapy or other iatrogenic causes * Patient receiving immunosuppressive therapy, long-term corticosteroids, therapeutic antibodies, chemotherapy in the last 6 months (whatever the dose), * Patient with innate or acquired immune deficiency (for example severe combined immunodeficiency, HIV or AIDS) * Onco-hematological disease (lymphoma, leukemia, myeloma) treated within the last 5 years (but inclusion of a patient with solid cancer who did not receive chemotherapy during the past 6 months is possible), * Patient with expected ICU length of stay \< 48 hours, * Patient for whom a limitation of active care was pronounced at the time of enrollment, * Patient with no social security insurance, with restricted liberty, or under legal protection.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Interleukin 6 (IL-6) plasmatic concentration24 hours after the initiation of CVVH
Endotoxin plasmatic mass concentration24 hours after the initiation of CVVH

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Fluids infused4, 12 and 24 hours after the initiation of CVVH
Patient survivalAt day 7
Pre-filter plasma endotoxin massAt initiation of CCVH (H0) then 1, 4, 12 and 24 hours after the initiation of CVVH
Pre-filter plasma endotoxin activityAt initiation of CCVH (H0) then 1, 4, 12 and 24 hours after the initiation of CVVH
Post-filter plasma endotoxin mass1, 4, 12 and 24 hours after the initiation of CVVH
Post-filter plasma endotoxin activity1, 4, 12 and 24 hours after the initiation of CVVH
Pre-filter plasma cytokine levelAt initiation of CCVH (H0) then 1, 4, 12 and 24 hours after the initiation of CVVH
Post-filter plasma cytokine level1, 4, 12 and 24 hours after the initiation of CVVH
Ultrafiltrate cytokine level1, 4, 12 and 24 hours after the initiation of CVVH
Post-filter plasma LPS-Binding Protein level1, 4, 12 and 24 hours after the initiation of CVVH
Post-filter plasma lipids level1, 4, 12 and 24 hours after the initiation of CVVH
Pre-filter plasma Procalcitonin levelAt initiation of CCVH (H0) then 1, 4, 12 and 24 hours after the initiation of CVVH
Post-filter plasma Procalcitonin level1, 4, 12 and 24 hours after the initiation of CVVH
Pre-filter plasma Phospholipid Transfer Protein levelAt initiation of CCVH (H0) then 1, 4, 12 and 24 hours after the initiation of CVVH
Post-filter plasma Phospholipid Transfer Protein level1, 4, 12 and 24 hours after the initiation of CVVH
Pre-filter plasma Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein levelAt initiation of CCVH (H0) then 1, 4, 12 and 24 hours after the initiation of CVVH
Post-filter plasma Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein level1, 4, 12 and 24 hours after the initiation of CVVH
Pre-filter plasma lipopolysaccharide (LPS) Binding Protein levelAt initiation of CCVH (H0) then 1, 4, 12 and 24 hours after the initiation of CVVH
Comparison of the results obtained on the above-mentioned parameters, according to the type of bacteria identified from standard care microbiological exams.At day 7
Pre-filter plasma lipids levelAt initiation of CCVH (H0) then 1, 4, 12 and 24 hours after the initiation of CVVH
Norepinephrine requirements4, 12 and 24 hours after the initiation of CVVH

Countries

France

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026