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Study NCT ID: NCT04923360
Status: UNKNOWN
Last Update Posted: 2021-06-11
First Post: 2021-04-11

Brief Title: Morphological Parameters of Blood Cells Activation in Characterization and Prognosis in a COPD Patients Cohort
Sponsor: Hospital Galdakao-Usansolo
Organization: Hospital Galdakao-Usansolo

Study Overview

Official Title: Morphological Parameters of Blood Cells Activation in Characterization and Prognosis in a COPD Patients Cohort
Status: UNKNOWN
Status Verified Date: 2021-04
Last Known Status: RECRUITING
Delayed Posting: No
If Stopped, Why?: Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access: False
If Expanded Access, NCT#: N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status: N/A
Acronym: None
Brief Summary: Though exacerbations in the COPD Chronic Pulmonary Obstructive Disease and specially the most severe cases hospitalizations are currently a fundamental outcome in the COPD due to its clinical and economic significance there are many unanswered questions still today such as the very definition of exacerbation itself

Research parameters like the CPD Cell Population Data are added to the basic blood count The CPD of the XN analyzers Sysmex Corporation Kobe Japan provide quantitative information of the morphological and functional characteristics of the leukocytes their volume content of nucleic acids and structure of the cytoplasm The CPD are numerical data which represent the morphology which characterizes the neutrophils lymphocytes monocytes eosinophils and platelets classifying them as per their volume and shape granularity and their content of nucleic acids The approach is that such cheap and accessible technique can provide relevant information in the area of COPD exacerbations

Therefore this study proposes several objectives

1 Establish the CPD values for each phenotype of COPD both for those already established in the Spanish guide of COPD and in the potential phenotypes which may be established in this study based on the CPDs themselves
2 Identify which among the CPDs are more relevant in relation to cellular activation neutrophils lymphocytes eosinophils and platelets both in the stage of clinical stability and during the severe exacerbation
3 Establish different phenotypes of COPD in stable phase according to the CPD values
4 Determine the existence of an association between the level of activation of these cells in stability phase of the COPD and the risk of exacerbation establish the optimum cutoff points

The study will include 500 patients with different levels of COPD in the OSI-Barrualde and OSI-Bilbao Several clinical measurements will be carried out for their characterization CPD measurements will be made both in clinical stability phase or during exacerbations
Detailed Description: One of the most analyzed outcomes in COPD Chronic Pulmonary Obstructive Disease are the exacerbations specially the severe ones There are two challenges in relation to severe exacerbations one related to the high use of sanitary resources and costs and the second one related to the worsening of the pulmonary function and the quality of life

Nowadays in the Spanish COPD guideline called GESEPOC Guía Española de la Enfermedad Pulmonar Obstructiva Crónica there is a COPD exacerbator phenotype However there are some limitations round the COPD exacerbation like its definition or its predictors In other words there are no indicators that can help the investigators to define more precisely an exacerbation or the COPD exacerbator profile

COPD is a chronic disease with low intensity systemic and chronic inflammation The matter is that it is not established which indicators the investigators have to use to determinate it There are some indicators like C reactive protein TNF-alpha IL-6 Interleukin 6 microalbumins and adiponectin and there are also prognostic scores based on them However they cannot help the investigators to establish COPD phenotypes of patients that can suffer an exacerbation The investigators neither have indicators in stable phase that say them the risk of an exacerbation Moreover it is said that there are different types of exacerbations and even it has been established indicators of these exacerbation phenotypes However nowadays it cannot be translated into daily clinical practice If investigators would be able to do it they could advance in the knowledge of the exacerbations and they could establish precision treatments

The blood count is one of the most required laboratory test in clinical practice It is cost-effective because of its low price and the huge quantity of information it brings After adapting the flow cytometry in hematologic modern analyzers a more detailed study of cells can be done Moreover morphological changes can be detected in response to different stimulus like infections or the ones that are caused by inflammatory reactions

In this project CPD Cellular Popular Data is added to the basis blood count They are parameters that are under investigation nowadays The CPD of the XN analyzers Sysmex Corporation Kobe Japan give quantitative information about morphological and functional characteristics of leukocytes their volume the quantity of nucleic acid they contain and the structure of the cytoplasm The CPD are numeric data that represent the morphology of the neutrophils lymphocytes monocytes and eosinophils and they classify them by their volume form granularity and nucleic acid content The same technology allows to the analyzer to classify the platelets by their morphology what is related to its thrombogenic activity

The composition of the membrane of the activated cells is different from the one of cells that are at rest because of the expression of the receptors and the surface signaling molecules in response to the activation This membrane is more sensitive to the reagents of the analyzer and more quantity of fluorescent colorant can enter in the activated cell and link to the cytoplasmic organelles and nucleic acids The optic signals are different what allows to distinguish morphological changes and they are directly related to the cell functionality

The activated neutrophils and monocytes have more deformability mobility and more capacity to adhesion granulation and liberation of cytokines

CPD values reflect morphological and functional transformation of these activated cells and they give us very important information of the state of the cell and the state of the patient at the moment the sample is taken

In addition CPD support the differentiation between viral and bacterial infections or between acute and chronic infections but also they say if there is an inflammatory condition without infection with better diagnostic performance than conventional parameters like total leukocytes neutrophiles percentage and C reactive protein that traditionally are used like acute infection markers

Currently available literature speaks about the utility of CPD in the diagnosis but there is no data about their possible prognostic value

Respect from blood cells previous COPD studies showed the relation between neutrophilslymphocytes and plateletslymphocytes as prognostic factors during severe exacerbations in COPD Nowadays it is emphasized the importance of eosinophils in COPD like predictor of exacerbation like exacerbation severity marker and like response marker to the treatment in stable and in the exacerbation phase It is thought that in this study the prognostic capacity of these new approaches can be better becauseit is included the grade of activation of these cells like key parameter This is a novel approach in the COPD field

On the other hand other inflammatory biomarkers TNF-alpha IL-6 are expensive and less accessible in the daily clinical practice while the evaluation of these new biomarkers of leukocytes are cheaper and more available in routine clinical practice by the blood count

These new biomarkers could help the investigators confirming the inflammatory response and recognizing patients that could exacerbate They also could determine the kind of their exacerbation and their prognosis

Study Oversight

Has Oversight DMC: None
Is a FDA Regulated Drug?: False
Is a FDA Regulated Device?: False
Is an Unapproved Device?: None
Is a PPSD?: None
Is a US Export?: None
Is an FDA AA801 Violation?: None