Thanks for joining me today. I'm Dr. Jay Raval. I'm an Associate Professor and
Senior Director of Transfusion Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology at the
University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
Thanks for attending today's talk and I am pleased to be able to give today's
presentation entitled “A breakthrough in aTTP treatment. Cablivi, now
recommended by the ISTH guidelines.”
This presentation is sponsored by Sanofi. I, the speaker, am presenting
on behalf of Sanofi and am receiving compensation from the company for
this presentation. Of note, this presentation is not eligible for CME credit.
Today's objectives are four-fold. The first is going to be providing an overview
of acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura or aTTP and the urgency for
rapid diagnosis of this condition. Number two, review pivotal trial data for Cablivi.
Three, review the ISTH guidelines of the diagnosis and treatment approaches for
TTP. Four, apply learnings to a patient case study that we'll go over.
Let's quickly overview aTTP. ADAMTS13 enzyme plays a really important role in
normal primary haemostasis and the blood clotting process. As you can see here
in
these diagrams, starting from the left and moving to your right, the normal
blood clotting process begins when the endothelium releases ultra-large Von
Willebrand
factor or ultra-large vWF. That is noted by the long purple chains here.
Normally, these exist in the bloodstream only for a short amount of time because
ADAMTS13 is
a special enzyme that comes along and cleaves these ultra-large vWF strands into
smaller more physiologic bits, which then can interact normally with platelets
and
collagen in order to provide the platelet plug. This is primary haemostasis.
These cleaved strands circulate and, of course, are ready to respond whenever
there is injury
at the level of the vascular endothelium.
However, in aTTP there is an ADAMTS13 deficiency that results and this causes a
few problems. First of all, these ultra-large vWF strands are no longer cleaved
but left
large and intact. These are giant molecules and unfortunately, they are also
very pathologic. These ultra-large vWF molecules accumulate and they
hyperactively
interact with platelets to form microthrombi that obstruct the flow of blood. As
you can see in these diagrams, on the left you have the uncleaved vWF strands.
They are left in their very large forms, and on the right you can see how they are
hyperactively interacting with platelets to form these microthrombi that, of
course, obstruct the flow of blood and these poor red cells are trying to sneak through and are
injured in the process producing the characteristic schistocytes that you can
see right there.
This is a problem because it is a consumptive thrombocytopenia and so, the
patient, as a result, has a low platelet count. That intravascular haemolysis
that is
occurring results in what is called a microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia. The
presence of schistocytes on the peripheral blood film support this. Because the
patient
is anaemic there is also going to be organ ischaemia and this is a systemic
condition. It effects almost all organ beds and impacts the entire body. Of
course, the
deleterious complications that can result from this include stroke, MI, early
death, and of course a variety of neurologic complications.
aTTP is a rare, rapidly progressing, relapsing autoimmune disease. Not only is it
uncommon, but the risk of missing the disease is potentially fatal. The
incidence is
about 2 to 5 cases per million per year here in the United States. The average
age of your patient with TTP is anywhere from 30 to 50 years old. Importantly,
TTP can
either be inherited or acquired, but almost 95% or more of the TTP cases are
going to be acquired and that's the type of TTP we are discussing here today.
As I mentioned, this is a potentially fatal illness and so rapid diagnosis as
well as prompt treatment is essential for treating this condition. You can see
on the left,
mortality rates remain very high in this condition with untreated disease. Up to
90% or more of patients will succumb to their disease when their TTP is left
untreated.
Even if prompt therapy is initiated with plasma-exchange and immunosuppression,
there is still a mortality rate in the acute setting of 8% to 20%, which means
that
even when you use the traditional gold standard of PEX plus immunosuppression,
these folks are not necessarily going to survive. That is a really important
point to
remember.
And even when patients do have a treatment response and remission based on PEX
and immunosuppression therapy, a high recurrence is still a big risk for these
folks.
According to 1 retrospective review, approximately 50% of patients experienced a
recurrence within 30 days of stopping their plasma-exchange. In another study,
90%
of patients over their lifetime, who had TTP, had at least one additional
episode. Patients, actually, often refer to themselves as ticking timebombs
because they know
that this is something that can occur and recur, and they wake up every morning
making sure and worried that: has it recurred? Do I need to look for signs of
recurrence? It is something that is on the minds of certainly the clinicians but
the patients as well.
What are the diagnoses and treatments for aTTP? As I mentioned this is a systemic
condition. You can see here in this diagram all sorts of organ systems may be
involved. Certainly, the skin and that is where you see the petechial rash as
well as other findings. Look at these major organs here that are potentially
affected. The
brain may be affected because of the microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia as well
as the ischaemia that occurs because of these thrombotic lesions that are
prohibiting blood flow from flowing normally. All sorts of neurologic finds can
occur here as well. In approximately 25% of patients the heart is involved. We do not always think about the heart as an organ impacted by aTTP, but in fact, in about
a quarter of patients there is cardiac involvement. This can be characterised by
something like EKG-abnormalities or frank myocardial infarction. All these organ
systems can take a hit. If you have got someone who is thrombocytopenic and has
microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia, you have got to consider the diagnosis of
aTTP. Folks have platelet counts of under 30,000 per microliter, typically,
along with
those characteristic findings of low platelet counts. If you have got that in
conjunction with a peripheral blood film that indicates schistocytosis in an
anaemic patient,
aTTP should be suspected. Importantly, ADAMTS13 activity testing has really come
a long way in terms of being available to patients that might have aTTP. Being
able
to assess the patient using the ADAMTS13 activity test is essential to
supporting the diagnosis of aTTP.
Treatment options in aTTP have evolved recently where plasma exchange and
immunosuppression have historically been the standard of care. These standards
of care
include daily plasma exchange in anyone who is at high risk of having TTP, or
even any risk, particularly if there is no identifiable cause to explain the
findings
otherwise. This would continue until the platelet count is normalised.
Plasma exchange is great for TTP for a couple of reasons. One, it removes these
ultra-large vWF multimers that are in circulation, as well as the
auto-antibodies that
are the immune source of this condition. It also replenishes the ADAMTS13 enzyme
when you use plasma as the replacement fluid during this procedure.
The other facet of treating this illness is going to involve immunosuppressive
therapy. This is where drugs are used to inhibit the underlying immune mechanism
that
is fuelling the disease. This is the auto-antibody formation that directs
antibodies against ADAMTS13 that cause aTTP, and this is what we're going to be
targeting with
immunosuppressive therapy.
Even though these two modes of treating TTP have been around for a while, it is
important to recognise that they are not designed to target the actual
pathologic
lesion here. That is the binding of the platelets to the ultra-large vWF
multimers, and ultimately, what is obstructing blood flow in the
microvasculature.
This is where Cablivi (caplacizumab-yhdp) comes in. Caplacizumab-yhdp is an agent
that specifically inhibits the interaction between Von Willebrand factor and
platelets. Its mechanism of action is designed as such where it interferes with
that platelet vWF binding to break down as well as prevent formation of these
pathologic
microthrombi.
Let us talk a little bit more about Cablivi. Importantly, Cablivi is indicated
for the treatment of adult patients with acquired TTP, used in combination with
the standard
of care treatments of plasma exchange and immunosuppressive therapy. It was
approved for this use by the FDA in 2019 and, as we will get to later, the ISTH
guidelines that recently came out recommend Cablivi in certain situations. We
are going to talk about that.
Cablivi is the first and only therapy, as I mentioned, that specifically targets
these pathologic microthrombi in adults that have aTTP. You can see right here
in the
diagrams, if you are looking at blood flow going from the left to the right, in
these patients with aTTP these pathologic microthrombi are present and blood
flow is
impaired, partly due to physical obstruction, and partly due to red cell
shearing and the inability to transport oxygen to the organ beds. In patients
that have Cablivi,
this vWF-directed antibody binds the A1 domain of Von Willebrand factor and
inhibits the interaction between vWF and platelets. You can see right here, with
this
particular pharmaceutical agent on board, these pathologic lesions more or less
are broken up and obstruction of blood flow is reduced.
The efficacy and safety of Cablivi were established in a pivotal clinical study
and this was the HERCULES study. This was a phase III double-blind randomised
control
trial of 145 adult patients that had acquired TTP. All of these patients
received standard of care plasma exchange plus immunosuppression of some type.
You can see
here on the right, corticosteroids were given in 96% and 97% of patients in
either arm, 39% and 48% of patients received Rituximab and 16% and 3% received
others.
Clearly well-matched in terms of the type of immunosuppression they received in
this study. I am going to take a moment to quickly describe the protocol here,
because it is important that everyone understands exactly how this trial was
conducted. As I mentioned, it was a double-blind randomised control study and at
the first
plasma exchange folks were randomised in a 1:1 fashion to one of two different
arms.
Again, everyone received plasma exchange and immunosuppressive therapy, the
standard of care, but half of the individuals received caplacizumab (or Cablivi)
at an
11 mg dose in addition to that. The other group received placebo. Ultimately 72
patients were enrolled in the Cablivi arm versus 73 patients in the control arm.
Cablivi
was given every day. We will talk more in a moment about the dose. It was given
every day while plasma exchange was occurring and then it was also given 30 days
after plasma exchange was stopped, so an additional month of Cablivi after
treatment response had been achieved and plasma exchange was halted. After that,
there
were up to 28 days of additional treatment that could occur if underlying
disease activity was found to be persistent or present by clinician assessment.
Lastly, there
was a 28-day treatment-free follow-up period. The folks in the placebo arm got
the exact same sort of treatment except they were given placebo throughout the
trial.
Again, the option of having a treatment extension with placebo being given was
offered, and then a 28-day treatment-free follow-up period as well.
The primary efficacy endpoint in the study was time to normalisation of platelet
count. That is something that anyone that treats aTTP is always watching: how
are the
platelet counts doing and how quickly are they coming up? It was a reasonable
primary efficacy endpoint to choose. You can see right here that folks that
received
Cablivi along with plasma exchange and immunosuppressive therapy achieved a
normal platelet count significantly faster than those that received standard of
care
therapies plus placebo.
A second endpoint that was chosen for this study was the total composite outcome
of aTTP related events during the study drug period. These events included
aTTPrelated
death, aTTP-related recurrence during treatment, or at least one major
thromboembolic event. If you look at the composite endpoint in which if a
patient got
any one of those then they met the composite endpoint, you can see right here
significantly fewer aTTP-related events were found in the Cablivi arm compared
to
those that were observed in the placebo treated arm. This was in fact a 74%
reduction, 9 versus 36 events, and was found to be statistically significant.
In combination with plasma exchange and immunosuppressive therapy, Cablivi was
also found to impact another secondary endpoint. This was the overall number of
recurrences during treatment and throughout the 28-day follow-up treatment
period. You can see right here, if you look at the number of folks that needed
to have
reinitiation of plasma exchange, for those in the placebo arm, 28 individuals
needed to have plasma exchange reinitiated because they had disease recurrence.
That's
compared to only 9 in the Cablivi arm. That was a 67% recurrence reduction that
was found to be significantly different. Let's take a deeper look at the 9
patients in the
Cablivi arm that had a recurrence. In 6 of the 9 patients that required
reinitiation of PEX after treatment with Cablivi was stopped, all 6 patients had
ADAMTS13 activity
levels <10%, indicating the underlying disease was still active. Based on the
pathophysiology of this disease, suppressed ADAMTS13 activity may signify
the need for extended treatment with Cablivi up to 28 days beyond the
initial 30 days post-PEX period.
One way to monitor these patients is
ADAMTS13 activity levels to make sure they are still not severely deficient
before considering stopping Cablivi.
Looking at some healthcare resource utilisation data, because of course these
patients are in the hospital for quite some time and receive intensive therapies
with
plasma exchange and immunosuppression. You can see right here, folks that
received Cablivi along with standard of care therapies had fewer days in ICU,
fewer days
in hospital, and fewer days of plasma exchange. These data were collected
prospectively and descriptive statistics were run but these were not tested for
significance,
and the clinical significance of these data is unknown.
The safety of Cablivi was also established in over 100 patients across two
studies. These were the phase II TITAN trial as well as the phase III HERCULES
trial that we
have talked about. If you look at this big list of different organ systems and
the adverse events that occurred, you can see that there is a variety of events
that
happened, but the most common adverse events actually were related to severe
bleeding. That is not too surprising again because if you think about it,
Cablivi
interferes with the binding of platelets to vWF and, in essence, that is Von
Willebrand disease. It is not too surprising to see that a bleeding event is a
potential adverse
event that can occur. You can see right here, in the right-hand side of this
diagram and table, severe bleedings are reported in 1% of patients for each of
the following
events; that include epistaxis, gingival bleeding, upper-GI haemorrhage and
metrorrhagia. Overall bleeding events were also slightly higher in the Cablivi
group at 58%
versus 43% in the placebo group.
A lot of words on this slide, but it is important to take it all in, make sure we
break it down and understand what is here. Regarding the safety information, the
main
contraindication and the sole absolute contraindication is a previous severe
hypersensitivity reaction to caplacizumab-yhdp or any of its excipients. Things
like urticarial
rash or more severe hypersensitivity reactions would indicate such a reaction to
Cablivi and these folks should not receive it.
Beyond that, however, there are some other factors and patient conditions that we
will discuss. If you look at the bleeding risk that is involved when patients
receive
Cablivi, bleeding can occur. If you have a patient that is going to be at
increased risk of bleeding, that needs to be taken into consideration. If
clinically significant
bleeding does start to occur in someone on Cablivi, stop Cablivi. If you need
to, Von Willebrand factor concentrates can be administered to correct the
haemostatic
profile of the patient. Then the decision of whether or not to restart Cablivi
needs to be made. If Cablivi is ultimately restarted, then you should closely
monitor that
patient for any findings of bleeding. If you have the luxury of time and you
know a patient is going to be having an elective surgery, a dental procedure, or
any other
type of intervention in which bleeding could occur, it is best to withhold
Cablivi for seven days prior to that procedure. Then, of course, if emergency
surgery is needed,
then the use of vWF concentrate may be considered to rapidly correct haemostasis
because, again, you do not have that luxury of time leading up to the procedure.
Regardless of whether it is a planned or emergent intervention, after the risk
of surgical bleeding has passed and the decision to resume Cablivi is made, you
want to
make sure that you monitor your patients closely for signs of bleeding that
might occur.
We talked about the bleeding symptoms and signs that can occur in terms of
serious adverse reactions. The most common things that were found were events
such as
epistaxis, headache, and gingival bleeding, which were found to occur in over
15% of patients that did receive Cablivi. That is an additional point to
remember.
Of course, any time you are giving multiple drugs that can interfere with either
primary or secondary haemostasis, the risk of bleeding increases. In patients
that are
on anticoagulants, you want to be careful when administering Cablivi because, of
course, those two agents together can potentially increase the risk of bleeding
even
more. Close assessment and monitoring is going to be required in these
individuals.
Lastly, there is no available data on Cablivi for the use in pregnant women and
so, with regard to the pregnant female or the fetus, no data is available.
Now let us talk quickly about the Cablivi dosing and administration. As mentioned
earlier, Cablivi treatment begins in the early stages of aTTP diagnosis and
continues
for at least 30 days post-PEX. I'd like to walk through the 3 phases of dosing
that your patients will experience and some of the considerations along the way.
Phase 1 is Day 1 initiation of Cablivi, beginning with an 11-mg bolus IV
injection at least 15 minutes prior to PEX treatment, followed by a second dose,
11-mg SC
injection, after the PEX treatment is completed. This Day 1 dosing follows the
HERCULES trial design and provides the appropriate therapeutic dose of Cablivi
for your
aTTP patients.
Phase 2 is the daily administration of Cablivi, 11-mg SC injection, after
completing each daily PEX treatment. This will continue throughout the PEX
treatment period. Of
note, if a dose is missed during this phase, Cablivi should be given as soon as
possible.
Phase 3 is the daily administration of Cablivi, 11-mg SC injection, for 30 days
after cessation of daily PEX treatment. This phase also includes the option for
treatment
extension up to an additional 28 days if signs of underlying disease persist,
such as suppressed ADAMTS13 activity. Of note, if a dose is missed during this
phase,
Cablivi can be administered within 12 hours of normal time of administration.
But beyond that 12 hour time frame, the missed dose should be skipped and the
next
daily dose of Cablivi administered following the usual dosing schedule.
Importantly, you want to discontinue Cablivi in your patient if more than two
recurrences occur while on Cablivi. It is three strikes and you are out rule. If
a patient is
getting Cablivi and they have three or more recurrences, clearly something is
different about this patient than your average aTTP patient. They might have an
underlying infection. There may be issues with how the drug is being
administered if they are self-administering it at home. All of these things need
to be investigated.
Now let us talk about the ISTH guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment
approaches for TTP. Why were these guidelines even created in the first place?
It turns out
the ISTH make guidelines for many conditions, but with regard to TTP, they
recognise that TTP is a rare, life-threatening blood disorder. Even when
appropriate care
and therapies are given promptly, there is still considerable mortality and
morbidity in the acute phase of the treatment with regard to TTP. Unfortunately,
most
healthcare providers have very limited experiences with managing TTP. Making a
document that would provide guidance to these providers was thought to be
extremely important. These guidelines are the first evidence-based international
guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of aTTP.
The diagnosis can be, of course, as we talked about earlier determined through
clinical assessment and the ISTH guidelines certainly support that. When a
patient is
assessed, the pre-test probability of that patient having aTTP is determined.
There are a variety of ways to do this. If it is ultimately found that the aTTP
is diagnosed or
at least there is a high clinical suspicion of it, that is going to be one
branch of the diagram you see here on the left. In contrast, if the patient has
a low or intermediate
clinical suspicion of aTTP, that'll take them down an alternate path. The things
that you want to look for on clinical assessment are listed right here. We have
talked
about them previously.
In these folks that have a high clinical suspicion of having aTTP, plasma
exchange and immunosuppressive therapy are going to be initiated immediately. At
that point,
assuming timely access to ADAMTS13 testing is available, the recommendation is
to also consider starting Cablivi prior to receiving ADAMTS13 activity test
results. You
want to also make sure that ADAMTS13 testing is ordered promptly as well.
Certainly, before that first plasma exchange procedure is performed. That is
going to help
guide what you do going forward. If it turns out that in this high clinical
suspicion patient with findings highly characteristic of aTTP, if there are
positive ADAMTS13
results, in other words, if it is severely deficient, less than 10% activity
levels, ISTH guidelines have stated Cablivi should be continued. If there are
borderline ADAMTS13
results identified, somewhere in this grey zone of 10%-20% activity levels, the
guidelines indicate that clinical judgement should be used to guide further
treatment. Of
course, other diagnoses should still be considered in the differential. On the
very right you can see that if the ADAMTS13 testing results are negative for
aTTP, in other
words if the activity level is over 20%, Cablivi should be stopped, because at
this point, even if the clinical suspicion was high, the ADAMTS13 testing does
not appear to
support it and so, the ISTH recommends ceasing Cablivi administration.
Importantly, if ADAMTS13 testing is not available, the ISTH guidelines indicate
that Cablivi
should not be added.
If you have a patient, however, upfront, who has a low or intermediate clinical
suspicion of aTTP, again, in the absence of another diagnosis that warrants a
different
type of therapy, consideration of initiating plasma exchange and
immunosuppressive therapy should occur. Again, ADAMTS13 activity testing should
accompany this.
Whether or not plasma exchange or immunosuppressive therapy is started, when
these results for ADAMTS13 activity testing come back, the same three options
are
seen here. If the results are positive in terms of aTTP disease, in other words,
an undetectable or severely deficient ADAMTS13 activity, if you have not already
started
plasma exchange and immunosuppressive therapy, then that should be promptly
initiated. In addition, Cablivi should also be considered as well, because
again, even
though the clinical suspicion was originally low to intermediate, now, with
ADAMTS13 testing to more strongly support the diagnosis, plasma exchange,
immunosuppression, and Cablivi can all be considered according to the ISTH
guidelines. If the results are borderline ADAMTS13 activity testing results, so
in that
10%-20% range, clinical judgement should be used to guide treatment.
Lastly, if in these low to intermediate clinical suspicion patients for having
aTTP, if they are negative ADAMTS13 activity testing results, in other words if
the activity is
over 20%, do not add Cablivi and certainly consider other diagnoses.
Now let's apply everything we've learned to a patient case. Let's meet Sandy. She
requires urgent medical attention. She is a 40-year-old female who is African
American
and she has been complaining of frequent pain and soreness in her abdomen, a
recent new onset lack of energy so, new fatigue, and a headache without
resolution as
well as forgetfulness. This is all unusual for her. She reports having a fever
of 102 degrees Fahrenheit three weeks earlier and she has seen visible bruising
and
blotching on her skin within the past 10 days. There is no mention of any recent
irritants, stressors, or travel. She says: “I know I was sick a few weeks ago
from a bug
that was going around the office. I did not think it would last this long. These
headaches are making it hard to focus. I just feel tired all the time.” She
reports the
possibility of a cold that she had, an upper respiratory infection, lasting
several weeks without improvement and now she is getting worse. In her past
medical history,
nothing really significant is seen here, as you can see, no family or social
history are available.
On physical exam, when looking at her vital signs, she is slightly febrile at
100.4 degrees Fahrenheit, her blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate are
all stable and
she is saturating well on room air. On physical exam she is noted to be
normocephalic, atraumatic, her ENT exam is normal, she has mild tenderness on
abdominal
exam and bruising and purpura are noted on the extremities.
A laboratory assessment is performed. You can see right here that there is a
normal white count but low haemoglobin, and so the patient is slightly anaemic
as you can
see here. Platelets are very low, 15,000 per microliter, haptoglobin is low. She
has reticula cytosis at 3% and her LDH is elevated along with her total
bilirubin also being
elevated. Importantly, her serum creatinine appears to be normal at this time.
All of these findings are characteristic of a thrombocytopenia accompanied by a
microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia. This is supported when the findings from
the peripheral blood film come back and a schistocytosis is identified.
You can see right here, because Sandy's physician diagnoses her with aTTP based
on a high clinical suspicion, she immediately falls into this pathway of the
ISTH
guidelines for how to treat aTTP. Of course, plasma exchange and
immunosuppressive therapy are immediately initiated and caplacizumab is
considered. In this
specific case, Sandys' physician decides to start her on caplacizumab because of
her high probability.
When those ADAMTS13 testing results come back, that is ultimately going to
determine what is done with Cablivi, as well as potentially alter plasma
exchange and
immunosuppressive therapy.
If you look at Sandy, plasma exchange is performed for five days. Cablivi was
given in the way we described, so daily, and corticosteroids were also
administered. Now,
we are just waiting for the ADAMTS13 activity results to guide next steps. Sandy
is responding nicely and her platelets are slowly starting to increase. What do
we find?
ADAMTS13 activity results are positive for aTTP. In other words, less than 10%
ADAMTS13 activity and the anti-ADAMTS13 auto-antibody tests were positive as
well.
Sandy now has further evidence to strengthen the case for having aTTP.
It supports the high suspicion seen with the initial clinical assessment and
laboratory assessment and Sandy's doctor decides that caplacizumab is going to
continue,
and that's exactly what happens.
Per the ISTH guidelines Cablivi would be continued to be administered as part of
her therapy in addition to standard of care. After five days of plasma exchange,
Cablivi, and corticosteroids on board, she does respond. Cablivi is continued
for another 30 days after daily plasma exchange is stopped, and corticosteroids
are
stopped after about two weeks. You can see right here in the documentation on
the left-hand side, Cablivi was stopped at that thirty-day post plasma exchange
time
point. Because even though Sandy was looking great, feeling great, and doing
well, her clinician said: “I am going to use the ADAMTS13 activity assay to
assess
whether there is any persistence of disease activity.” And when that repeat
ADAMTS13 activity test came back at day 35, you can see right here, it was
greater than 20%
and so, the clinician felt confident that the underlying immune process that
drives aTTP had been quenched and Cablivi was stopped.
Some key takeaways about aTTP. It is a rare, rapidly progressing disorder. It is
autoimmune in nature and is a medical emergency. All of these things make aTTP
very
dangerous. Even the people that routinely see aTTP can be fooled by its clinical
presentation. Unfortunately, this is a condition where missing the diagnosis can
be
potentially fatal or can leave the patient with more morbidity than they would
have if plasma exchange and immunosuppressive therapies had been initiated
earlier. It
is a tricky disease.
The ISTH TTP guidelines recommend Cablivi in combination with those two standard
of care treatments, plasma exchange and immunosuppressive therapy, in adults
with acute aTTP. This can be used for either a de novo aTTP episode, the first
episode that a patient has, or it can be for any relapses. These ISTH TTP
guidelines help to
guide the use of Cablivi in this rare condition. You can see right here, if you
see aTTP, if you diagnose it with your clinical and initial laboratory
assessments, you want to
start standard of care therapies with plasma exchange and immunosuppressive
therapy, and then consider the early administration of Cablivi, if there is a
high clinical
suspicion and if you have timely access to ADAMTS13 testing. You want to use
ADAMTS13 activity testing to support your treatment decisions from that initial
point
onwards. Those three things are pivotal.
Cablivi is, of course, the first and only FDA approved guideline recommended
therapy for the treatment of adults with aTTP in combination with plasma
exchange and
immunosuppressive therapy. It is important to remember that Cablivi prevents the
pathophysiologic formation of microthrombi in aTTP.
Cablivi's use in conjunction with standard of care therapies results in a
significantly faster time to platelet normalisation, as well as a significant
reduction in the
composite endpoint of aTTP-related death, recurrence, or at least one major
thromboembolic event during the treatment period.
Additionally, there were also significantly fewer recurrences in those patients
that received Cablivi plus standard of care versus those that just received
standard of care
plus placebo during the treatment period and for the 28 days after.
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