Alirocumab in patients with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia undergoing lipoprotein apheresis: Rationale and design of the ODYSSEY ESCAPE trial

Moriarty, Patrick M.; Parhofer, Klaus G.; Babirak, Stephan P.; deGoma, Emil; Duell, P. Barton; Hohenstein, Bernd; Ramlow, Wolfgang; Simha, Vinaya; Steinhagen-Thiessen, Elisabeth; Thompson, Paul D.; Vogt, Anja; Stritzky, Berndt von; Du, Yunling und Manvelian, Garen (2016): Alirocumab in patients with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia undergoing lipoprotein apheresis: Rationale and design of the ODYSSEY ESCAPE trial. In: Journal of Clinical Lipidology, Bd. 10, Nr. 3: S. 627-634

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Many patients with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH) fail to reach optimal low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels with available lipid-lowering medications, including statins, and require treatment using alternative methods such as lipoprotein apheresis. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy of alirocumab 150 mg every 2 weeks (Q2W) compared with placebo in reducing the frequency of lipoprotein apheresis treatments in patients with HeFH. METHODS: ODYSSEY ESCAPE is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, 18-week, phase 3 study being conducted in the United States and Germany. ODYSSEY ESCAPE will evaluate the efficacy and safety of alirocumab in approximately 63 adults with HeFH undergoing regular weekly (QW;for >= 4 weeks) or Q2W (for >= 8 weeks) lipoprotein apheresis. Patients will be randomly assigned (2:1, respectively) to receive alirocumab 150 mg subcutaneously Q2W or placebo subcutaneously Q2W (both in 1-mL injections) for 18 weeks. From day 1 to week 6, the apheresis frequency will be fixed to the individual patient's established schedule (QW or Q2W);thereafter, apheresis will be performed according to the LDL-C value at that visit: apheresis will not be performed when the LDL-C value is >= 30% lower than the baseline pre-apheresis LDL-C value. The primary end point is the frequency of apheresis treatments over a 12-week period starting at week 7. DISCUSSION: The ODYSSEY ESCAPE trial will determine whether alirocumab reduces the frequency of lipoprotein apheresis in patients with HeFH. (C) 2016 National Lipid Association. All rights reserved.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Medizin
• Themengebiete: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften > 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
• ISSN: 1933-2874
• Sprache: Englisch