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Efficacy and Safety of Vunakizumab and Ivarmacitinib in the Treatment of Active Takayasu's Arteritis

A Prospective, Open-label, Controlled, Multiple Centers Clinical Study of the Efficacy and Safety for Vunakizumab and Ivarmacitinib in the Treatment of Active Takayasu's Arteritis (TAK): The VIVA-TAK Ttrial

Status
Not yet recruiting
Phases
Phase 4
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT07451665
Acronym
VIVA-TAK
Enrollment
180
Registered
2026-03-05
Start date
2026-04-01
Completion date
2029-03-31
Last updated
2026-03-05

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Conditions

Takayasu Arteritis (TAK)

Keywords

Vunakizumab, Ivarmacitinib, randomized controlled trial

Brief summary

This is a prospective, open-label, controlled, multiple centers, randonmized clinical trial. It compares the clinical efficacy and safety of vunakizumab ivarmacitinib and glucocorticoids in the treatment of active Takayasu's arteritis.

Detailed description

In this study, 180 Takayasu's arteritis patients with active disease will be enrolled. Patients are randomized in to the vunakizumab treatment group, ivarmacitinib treatment group and glucocorticoid treatment group. Patients will follow the same reduction steps for glucocorticoids. The primary endpoint is the percentage of patients who are in complete response at week 52. The efficacy will be evaluated at week 4, 12, 26, 38 and 52. Safety is also monitored during the study.

Interventions

DRUGVanakizumab

Vanakizumab 240mg each 4 weeks taken subcutaneously with an additional injection at day 15

Ivarmacitinib 8mg daily taken orally

DRUGPrednisone

Prednisone taken daily according to preset tapering protocol

Sponsors

Chinese SLE Treatment And Research Group
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 70 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* a. Adult patients (aged between 18-70 years) fulfilling the 2022 ACR/EULAR classification criteria for TAK with new-onset or relapsing disease. * b. Presence of active disease despite treatment with gluccorticoids combined with a conventional synthetic or biologic immunosuppressive agent other than JAK inhibitors and IL-17 inhibitors, including new-onset patients and relapsed patients. Patient is considered to have active disease by the investigator is the patients meets at least two of the following three criteria: i) one or more clinical manifestations determined by the investigator to be due to active TAK; ii) one or more findings on imaging of progressive disease; or iii) elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) or C-reactive protein (CRP). Clinical criteria included constitutional symptoms (fever, fatigue, and weight loss), musculoskeletal symptoms, vascular pain, neurological or visual symptoms, abdominal pain or angina, new or worsening limb claudication, loss of pulses, and worsening hypertension. Imaging criteria includes new vascular stenosis or aneurysms detected by ultrasound, computed tomography angiography (CTA), or magnetic resonance angiography.

Exclusion criteria

* Participants are excluded from the study if any of the following criteria apply: 1. Medical Conditions 1. Severe disease from TAK for which urgent treatment with interventional vascular procedures or bypass surgery is considered necessary 2. Critical organ involvement of TAK, such as myocardial or coronary artery involvement, or cerebral ischemia, that is anticipated to need treatment during the study 3. Active hepatitis B or C virus infection 4. Active tuberculosis (Patients with latent tuberculosis infection could be enrolled with preventive therapy for tuberculosis flare) 5. Malignancy in the past 5 years (with the exception of fully excised non-melanoma skin cancer or cervical carcinoma in situ) 6. Poorly controlled diabetes 7. Patients with history of venous thrombosis 8. Upper GI bleeding within 3 months prior to enrollment 9. Uncontrolled heart failure 10. Refractory hypertension 2. Abnormal Laboratory Test Findings k. Serum liver enzyme elevation 3 times higher than the upper limits of normal range l. Severe renal function impairment with estimated glomerular filtration rate ≤ 30 ml/minute/1.73 m2, calculated using the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease equation (doi:10.1056/NEJMoa2102953) 3. Other

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Complete response rate at week 52week 52Percentage of patients with complete response at week 52

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Complete response at week 26week 26Percentage of patients with complete response at week 26
Combined response rate of vunakizumab at week 26 and week 52week 26 and week 52Percentage of patients with response treated with vunakizumab at week 26 and week 52
Combined response rate of ivarmacitinib at week 26 and week 52week 26 and week 52Percentage of patients with response treated with ivarmacitinib at week 26 and week 52
Time to relapseweek 52Time to relapse in each treatment group
Time to eventweek 52Time to event (including relapse, discontinuation due to AE/SAE, treatment failure)
Patient-Reported Outcomesweek 52The comparison of PtGA and PhGA in each individual during the treatment in each group

Countries

China

Contacts

CONTACTXinping TIAN, M.D.
tianxp6@126.com+86-13691165939
CONTACTJing LI, M.D.
lijing6515@pumch.cn+86-13020061363
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORXinping TIAN, M.D.

Peking Union Medical College Hospital

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Mar 6, 2026