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Long-term Comparative Cerebrovascular Outcome After Transplantation vs Standard Care in Sickle Cell Anemia

Long-term Comparative Cerebrovascular Outcome After Transplantation vs Standard Care in Children With Sickle Cell Anemia ( DREPAGREFFE-2)

Status
Completed
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT05053932
Acronym
DREPAGREFFE2
Enrollment
67
Registered
2021-09-23
Start date
2022-10-07
Completion date
2025-01-31
Last updated
2026-06-15

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Conditions

Cerebral Ischemia, Sickle Cell Disease, Stenosis

Keywords

transplantation

Brief summary

The purpose of the present observational study is to remotely reevaluate the cohort of 67 sickle cell patients with transcranial Doppler-detected cerebral vasculopathy included in the national "Sickle Cell Transplant" protocol and whose 1- and 3-year results were published in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) in 2019 and in BHJ in 2020.

Detailed description

The present observational study has the objective to reevaluate at distance the cohort of 67 children with sickle cell anemia enrolled in the "Drepagreffe"trial because of cerebral vasculopathy detected by transcranial Doppler. Results at 1 and 3 years were reported in JAMA in 2019 in BHJ in 2020. This trial was the first worldwide prospective study comparing transplantation to standard care in sickle cell disease. Velocities were highly significantly more reduced with a higher proportion of patients with normalized velocities and better quality of life after transplantation than on standard care. Despite a trend to a better ischemic lesions outcome at 3 years, the difference was not significant and cognitive performances were not different between both groups. The biologic study only assessed at enrollment and 1-year showed lower levels of Ang-2 and HGF (hepatocyte growth factor) after transplant and a significant and independent association between Doppler normalization probability with low Ang-2 and BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor) levels.The aim of the present study is to reassess at 9-10 years this cohort with grants allowing to reevaluate cognitive functioning and hypoxia/angiogenic factors not realized in the systematic cohort follow-up

Interventions

OTHERblood collection

blood collection

Sponsors

Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal Creteil
Lead SponsorOTHER
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
CollaboratorOTHER
Etablissement Français du Sang
CollaboratorOTHER

Study design

Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

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

Inclusion criteria

* Patient of legal age or minor who participated in the DREPAGREFFE research protocol \[NCT 01340404\] between December 2010 and June 2013, * Having read and understood the information letter

Exclusion criteria

* Refusal to participate * Patient deceased

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Long term evolution (at 9-10 years) of Ischemic lesion on brain magnetic resonance imaging 10-year measurement of ischemic lesion on magnetic resonance imagingwithin 6 months of inclusionThe MRI-scores, ranging from 0 (best outcome) to 10 (worst outcome), are obtained by adding up the ischemic lesion scores from the left and right sides, i.e., 3 for territorial or 2 for border zone (cortical and subcortical), 1 for white matter and 1 for basal ganglia infarcts and 0 if absent on each side.
Long term evolution (at 9-10 years) of arterial stenosis on cerebral and cervical magnetic resonance angiographywithin 6 months of inclusionThe MRA stenosis-scores, ranging from 0 (best outcome) to 32 (worst outcome) are defined as the weighted sums over the 8 assessed cerebral arteries, as 0 if no stenosis, 1 if mild stenosis (25-49%), 2 if moderate stenosis (50-74%), 3 if severe stenosis (75-99%), and 4 if occlusion.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Long term evolution (at 9-10 years) of cognitive performancewithin 6 months of inclusionFull Scale Intelligence Quotient (40= worst outcome, 160= best outcome) is measured by Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children -Fourth Edition (WISC-4) for children 7-16 years of age and by WAIS-3 (Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale-3) for patients older than 16 years
Long term evolution (at 9-10 years) of quality of lifewithin 6 months of inclusionQuality of life assessment is collected using the French version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory Generic Core Scale (PedsQLTM 4.0 generic core scales) (physical, emotional, social, school items) (0= worst outcome, 100= best outcome) via self-report and parent proxy-report
Evolution at 9-10 years of factors of hypoxia and oxidative stresswithin 6 months of inclusionAssessment on plasma Phosphatidyl-serine expression VEGF, Angiopoietin-1 (Ang-1) and Angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2),EPO, HIF-1, BDNF, PDGF-AA

Countries

France

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Jun 16, 2026