Alirocumab in patients with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia undergoing lipoprotein apheresis: the ODYSSEY ESCAPE trial

Moriarty, Patrick M.; Parhofer, Klaus G.; Babirak, Stephan P.; Cornier, Marc-Andre; Duell, P. Barton; Hohenstein, Bernd; Leebmann, Josef; Ramlow, Wolfgang; Schettler, Volker; 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 hypercholesterolaemia undergoing lipoprotein apheresis: the ODYSSEY ESCAPE trial. In: European Heart Journal, Bd. 37, Nr. 48: S. 3588-3595

Abstract

Aim To evaluate the effect of alirocumab on frequency of standard apheresis treatments [weekly or every 2 weeks (Q2W)] in heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia (HeFH). Methods and results ODYSSEY ESCAPE (NCT02326220) was a double-blind study in 62 HeFH patients undergoing regular weekly or Q2W lipoprotein apheresis. Patients were randomly assigned (2: 1, respectively) to receive alirocumab 150 mg (n = 41) or placebo (n = 21) Q2W subcutaneously for 18 weeks. From day 1 to week 6, apheresis rate was fixed according to the patient's established schedule;from weeks 7 to 18, apheresis rate was adjusted based on the patient's low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) response in a blinded fashion. Apheresis was not performed when the LDL-C value was >= 30% lower than the baseline (pre-apheresis) value. The primary efficacy endpoint was the rate of apheresis treatments over 12 weeks (weeks 7-18), standardized to number of planned treatments. In the alirocumab group the least square (LS) mean +/- SE (95% confidence interval [CI]) per cent change in pre-apheresis LDL-C from baseline at week 6 was -53.7 +/- 2.3 (-58.2 to - 49.2) compared with 1.663.1 (-4.7 to 7.9) in the placebo group. The primary efficacy endpoint showed statistically significant benefit in favour of alirocumab (Hodges-Lehmann median estimate of treatment difference: 0.75;95% CI 0.67-0.83;P < 0.0001). Therefore, alirocumab-treated patients had a 0.75 (75%) additional reduction in the standardized rate of apheresis treatments vs. placebo-treated patients. During this period, 63.4% of patients on alirocumab avoided all and 92.7% avoided at least half of the apheresis treatments. Adverse event rates were similar (75.6% of patients on alirocumab vs. 76.2% on placebo). Conclusions Lipoprotein apheresis was discontinued in 63.4% of patients on alirocumab who were previously undergoing regular apheresis, and the rate was at least halved in 92.7% of patients. Alirocumab was generally safe and well tolerated.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Medizin
• Themengebiete: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften > 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
• ISSN: 0195-668X
• Sprache: Englisch