blood clot thrombosis
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Children from birth to less than 6 months with documented symptomatic or asymptomatic venous or arterial thrombosis who have been treated with anticoagulant therapy for at least 5 days. 2. Gestational age at birth of at least 37 weeks. 3. Hemoglobin, platelets, creatinine, ALT and total and direct bilirubin assessed within 10 days prior to enrollment. 4. Oral feeding/nasogastric/gastric feeding for at least 10 days. 5. Informed consent provided. 6. Body weight >2600 g.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Active bleeding or high risk for bleeding contraindicating anticoagulant therapy, including history of intra-ventricular bleeding. 2. Symptomatic progression of thrombosis during preceding anticoagulant treatment. 3. Planned invasive procedures, including lumbar puncture and removal of nonperipherally placed central lines during study treatment. 4. Hepatic disease which is associated with either: coagulopathy leading to a clinically relevant bleeding risk, or alanine aminotransferase (ALT) > 5x upper level of normal (ULN) or total bilirubin (TB) > 2x ULN with direct bilirubin > 20% of the total 5. Creatinine > 1.5 times of normal. 6. Uncontrolled hypertension defined as > 95th percentile. 7. History of gastrointestinal disease or surgery associated with impaired absorption. 8. Platelet count
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Results of pharmacokinetics (PK) / pharmacodynamics (PD) (prothrombin time, activated partial thromboplastin time and anti-factor Xa activity). | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Composite of major and clinically relevant non-major bleeding. Composite of all symptomatic recurrent thromboembolism and asymptomatic deterioration in thrombotic burden on repeat imaging. | — |
Countries
Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United States of America