About this trial
This trial´s aim is to assess if oral prednisone (compared to placebo), administered over five weeks is beneficial in terms of decreased total bilirubin (TBL): reduction of the peak of TBL at least 50% at 14 days or reduction in the time to normalisation of TBL value.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Female and male patients, aged ≥ 18 years.
Patients who have been diagnosed with DILI by the expert committee.
Patients with moderate to severe DILI (elevations of ALT or AST ≥ 5 times the Upper Limit of Normal (ULN) and serum TBL ≥ 2.5 mg/dL).
Patients who do not show a 15% reduction in ALT values or TBL continues to increase 5-10 days after liver damage recognition despite the withdrawal of the culprit drug.
Disqualifiers
No clear DILI diagnosis after an expert committee DILI assessment.
DILI due to immune-checkpoint inhibitors.
Presence of active infection as evidenced by positive urine or blood culture.
Acute liver failure (international normalized ratio (INR) > 1.5 and hepatic encephalopathy).
Trial design
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
Prednisone
DrugPlacebo
Treatment groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
Total bilirubin
To assess if oral prednisone (compared to placebo), administered over five weeks is beneficial in terms of decreased total bilirubin (TBL): reduction of the peak of TBL at least 50% at 14 days or reduction in the time to normalisation of TBL value.
Secondary outcomes
Peak alanine aminotransferase level
Comparison prednisone/placebo when reducing peak alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and international normalized ratio (INR) values by at least 50% at day 7 or reducing the time to normalisation.
Aspartate aminotransferase level
Comparison prednisone/placebo when reducing peak alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and international normalized ratio (INR) values by at least 50% at day 7 or reducing the time to normalisation.
International normalized ratio values
Comparison prednisone/placebo when reducing peak alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and international normalized ratio (INR) values by at least 50% at day 7 or reducing the time to normalisation.
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