Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 11:32 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 11:32 PM
NCT ID:
NCT03290456
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
* Patients with a diagnosis of MPA or GPA independently of ANCA status,
* Patient aged of 18 years or older,
* Patients with newly-diagnosed disease or relapsing disease at the time of screening, with an inactive disease defined as a BVAS = 0,
* Patients receiving maintenance infusion of rituximab 500 mg at 6 and 12 months after the start of vasculitis induction
* Patients receiving 5-10 mg/day of prednisone at screening,
* Patient able to give written informed consent prior to participation in the study.
* At Inclusion visit day, patient must be between 5 and 10 mg/day prednisone and at randomization visit day (D1), patient must be at 5 mg/day prednisone
Exclusion Criteria:
* Patients with EGPA, or other vasculitides, defined by the ACR criteria and/or the Chapel Hill Consensus Conference,
* Patients with vasculitis with active disease defined as a BVAS \>0,
* Patients with acute infections or chronic active infections (including HIV, HBV or HCV),
* Patients with active cancer or recent cancer (\<5 years), except basocellular carcinoma and prostatic cancer of low activity controlled by hormonal treatment,
* Pregnant women and lactation. Patients with childbearing potential should have reliable contraception for the all duration of the study,
* Patients with other uncontrolled diseases, including drug or alcohol abuse, severe psychiatric diseases, that could interfere with participation in the trial according to the protocol,
* Patients included in other investigational therapeutic study within the previous 3 months,
* Patients suspected not to be observant to the proposed treatments,
* Patients who have white blood cell count ≤4,000/mm3,
* Patients who have platelet count ≤100,000/mm3,
* Patients who have ALT or AST level greater than 3 times the upper limit of normal that cannot be attributed to underlying MPA-GPA disease,
* Patients unable to give written informed consent prior to participation in the study.
* Patients with contraindication to use rituximab,
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
18 Years
Study:
NCT03290456
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT03290456