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ID
Source
Brief title
Health condition
Psoriasis vulgaris
Sponsors and support
Intervention
Outcome measures
Primary outcome
PASI (psoriasis area severity index-)-score.
Secondary outcome
PGA (physician global assessment)
Blood and urine samples will be collected for laboratory tests.
Background summary
Psoriasis is a T-cell mediated skin disease affecting 2-3 % of the world’s population. Methotrexate is known to be effective in the treatment of severe psoriasis. Like other currently used systemical treatments for psoriasis. Methotrexate has a significant potential for toxicity. It can cause bone-marrow toxicity, hepatic fibrosis, stomatitis, gastrointestinal intolerance, fever, alopecia and it is teratogenic. The anti-psoriatic drug, Fumaderm® or Fumarate '120', further referred to as ‘fumarate therapy’ or ‘fumarates’ has proven to be effective in psoriasis vulgaris. Systemic therapy with fumarates may be given to patients for prolonged periods because of its lack of serious side effects. Commonly reported side-effects of fumarates are flushing, gastrointestinal complaints, nausea, and tiredness. These side-effects usually occur during the induction of fumarate therapy.
This current study is designed to:
1. determine the efficacy of systemic fumarate and methotrexate therapy.
2. investigate the advantages of fumarate therapy in comparison with methotrexate therapy.
3. determine which of the two therapies induce a PASI reduction of ≥ 75 first.
4. investigate whether the change of PASI-score of patients treated with fumarates or methotrexate is maintained for a long period after cessation of the therapy.
Study objective
N/A
Study design
N/A
Intervention
Patients will be randomized to receive either fumarate or methotrexate therapy.
The total study-duration will be 16 weeks with a follow-up for 4 weeks.
Dermatology Department
P.O. Box 2040
S. Fallah-Arani
Rotterdam 3000 CA
The Netherlands
+31 (0)10 4639222
s.fallaharani@erasmusmc.nl
Dermatology Department
P.O. Box 2040
S. Fallah-Arani
Rotterdam 3000 CA
The Netherlands
+31 (0)10 4639222
s.fallaharani@erasmusmc.nl
Inclusion criteria
1. Patients should be at least 18 years with a maximum age of 65 years.
2. Patients should suffer from chronic plaque-type psoriasis.
3. PASI >8.
Exclusion criteria
1. Patients with other forms of psoriasis like psoriasis guttata or pustulosa.
2. Patients who have received prior treatment with either fumarates or methotrexate.
3. Patients in need of co-medications that may influence psoriasis, the clinical response of either fumarates or methotrexate, or toxitcity of either fumarates or methotrexate.
4. Acute infections requiring antimicrobial therapy or associated with HIV infection.
5. Hepatitis B, C, HIV.
6. Pregnancy, breast-feeding, desire to have children within 3 months after the cessation of therapy, unacceptable or non-compliant contraception.
7. Body-weight under 50 kg.
8. Obesity ( Body mass Index 30-40).
9. Relevant cardiovascular, pulmonary, celebral, neurological, hematological, liver or renal impairments.
10. (Insulin-dependent) Diabetes mellitus.
11. Hypertension defined as diastolic pressure higher than 95 mmHg, or a systolic pressure higher than 160 mmHg.
12. High risk of liver function disturbances like genetic abnormalities, relevant abnormality in the liver by ultrasound.
13. Chronic constrictive heart failure.
14. History of arsenic medication, malignancy, carcinogenic therapy, immunosuppressive medication.
15. Anemia, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, high serum creatinin, any blood transfusions.
16. Drug or alcohol abuse.
Design
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In other registers
| Register | ID |
|---|---|
| NTR-new | NL733 |
| NTR-old | NTR743 |
| Other | : N/A |
| ISRCTN | ISRCTN76608307 |