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B7 Coreceptor Molecules in Hyper IgD Syndrome Form of Mevalonate Kinase Deficiency

Stopped: never started

United States, Netherlands0Started 2012-03

Plain-language summary

The hyper IgD syndrome (HIDS) is an inflammatory disease caused by mevalonate kinase deficiency. There is no cure, and available treatments of HIDS febrile episodes have shown limited clinical efficacy. The development of effective interventions for HIDS is limited by our poor understanding of the disease. The goal of the study is to better characterize the inflammatory response during HIDS episodes and to determine the relationship between this response and blood and urine markers of mevalonate kinase deficiency. This knowledge will help us learn more about the cause of the disease and should lead to the identification of new disease biomarkers that can be used to evaluate clinical efficacy in future therapeutic trials. The primary hypothesis is that the costimulatory B7 glycoprotein abnormalities identified in the murine MKD model will be recapitulated in sera obtained from human HIDS patients, either before, during or after febrile episodes. The secondary hypothesis is that B7 glycoprotein molecule levels will correlate with clinical symptomatic severity score, other known biomarkers of HIDS, markers of inflammation and or markers of isoprenoid metabolism.

Who can participate

Age range

18 Years – 89 Years

Sex

ALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * any race or ethnicity * diagnosed with HIDS Exclusion Criteria: * parents' inability to donate blood * currently having cancer, renal failure, diabetes, liver disease, thyroid diseases, major infectious diseases or immunodeficiency * pregnancy * inability to provide consent

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1Based on my diagnosis and history, is this trial worth exploring for me — or is there a standard treatment we should try first?
2What does this trial's phase tell us about how much is already known about its safety and benefit?
3What would taking part actually involve for me — visits, tests, time, and travel?
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Trial details

NCT IDNCT01568736

SponsorMichigan Technological University

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeOBSERVATIONAL

Primary completion2016-03

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