Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Dr Jonathan Darling
ORCID ID
Contact details
Academic Unit of General Paediatrics and Child Health
Level 5
Clinical Sciences Building
St. Jamess University Hospital
Beckett Street
Leeds
LS9 7TF
United Kingdom
+44 (0)113 206 5657
j.c.darling@leeds.ac.uk
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
N/A
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
CORT-KD
Study hypothesis
We hypothesise that systemic corticosteroids, when administered early in the course of Kawasaki disease, will reduce the prevalence of Coronary Artery Abnormalities (CAA) at two months (eight to ten weeks) after its onset.
Ethics approval
Not provided at time of registration
Study design
Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design
Interventional
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
Other
Trial type
Treatment
Patient information sheet
Condition
Kawasaki disease (mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome)
Intervention
Patients in the treatment group will receive:
1. Pulsed-dose IntraVenous MethylPrednisolone (IVMP) therapy: Methylprednisolone 30 milligrams (mg) per kilogram (kg) of body weight (maximum, 1.5 g) intravenously in a single dose over one hour on the day of randomisation (day one), followed by
2. Oral Prednisolone (OP) course: Prednisolone 2 mg per kg of body weight per day (maximum dose, 60 mg per day) in two divided doses orally for seven days, starting on the second study day (day two)
Control: Placebo for both intravenous and oral treatments
Intervention type
Drug
Phase
Not Applicable
Drug names
Methylprednisolone, immunoglobulin, prednisolone
Primary outcome measures
The major outcome of the study is the incidence of predefined abnormality of one or more coronary arteries at 8 weeks after fever onset.
Coronary artery abnormality is defined fully in the trial protocol and includes both coronary artery dilatation and aneurysm. Coronary artery dilatation is defined as an intraluminal CA diameter of ≥3 mm but <4 mm in a child <5 years and ≥4 mm but <5 mm in a child ≥5 years.
Secondary outcome measures
1. Death any cause, cardiac cause
2. Other morbidity in first year:
a. Myocardial infarction
b. Congestive heart failure (by clinical assessment)
c. Adverse effects (corticosteroids):
i. Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding
ii. Elevated Blood Pressure (BP) (systolic or diastolic BP more than 95th percentile for age, height and gender)
iii. Serious infection within first three weeks (study day less than or equal to 21)
iv. Glycosuria
3. Coronary artery z scores
4. Aneurysm size (largest)
5. Number of aneurysms
6. Other singular echocardiographic abnormalities:
a. Pericardial effusion
b. Left ventricular dysfunction
c. Aortic arch abnormality
d. Carotid artery abnormality
e. Abnormality of other great vessels
7. Days to defervescence (cumulative days of continuous fever), calculated as: Number of consecutive days on which child has at least one temperature more than or equal to 38.0 °C, beginning with study day one (day of initiation of IVMP or IV placebo)
8. Fever recrudescence within two weeks, defined as: recurrence of fever following defervesence (no temperature more than or equal to 38.0 °C for more than or equal to 24 hours) occurring more than or equal to 48 hours after cessation of the first IVIG infusion
9. Treatment non-responsiveness, defined as: Fever (more than or equal to 38.0°C) persisting for more than or equal to six days after start of first IVIG infusion
10. Number of doses of IVIG required (one or two) for treatment responsiveness
11. Echocardiographic CAA at one year after treatment
Overall trial start date
01/09/2006
Overall trial end date
01/09/2012
Reason abandoned
Lack of funding/sponsorship
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
Patients aged one month to 16 years, inclusively, who present with either of the following (1. OR 2.):
1. A history of fever for at least four days, but not more than ten days, in addition to more than or equal to four of the five following features, identified by history and/or at presentation:
a. Oral mucosal changes any one of:
i. Redness, dryness, cracking, fissuring, peeling or bleeding of lips, or
ii. Diffuse redness of oral and pharyngeal mucosae, or
iii. Strawberry tongue (e.g. deep redness, prominent fungiform papillae)
b. Extremity changes redness of palms and soles, and/or induration (swelling) of hands and feet
c. Skin rash any rash that is non-vesicular and non-bullous
d. Conjunctivitis bilateral and non-purulent
e. Anterior cervical lymphadenopathy (any)
OR
2. A history of fever for at least five days, but not more than ten days, in addition to three of the five features listed above AND any one of:
a. Serum C-Reactive Protein (CRP) more than or equal to 30 mg/l, or
b. Serum Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR) more than or equal to 40 mm/hour, or
c. Plasma viscosity more than or equal to 1.7 mPa/s
Not all of these clinical features need be present at enrolment or at a single point in time.
'Fever' is considered to be pyrexia by history (e.g. tactile assessment by parent) OR by direct measurement. Whenever measured, fever is defined as a temperature of more than or equal to 38.0 °C (100.4 °F), determined by any method (e.g. oral, rectal, tympanic or axillary). A parental impression of pyrexia by tactile assessment alone can be taken as a day of fever, regardless of any measured temperature. The first day of fever is taken as the day on which the parent or guardian reports that the child first had a fever, either by history or recorded measurement.
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Child
Gender
Both
Target number of participants
1306
Participant exclusion criteria
1. Fever for more than or equal to 11 days
2. Previous diagnosis of KD (e.g. recurrent disease or a second discrete symptomatic presentation of KD)
3. Clinical features suggesting disease other than KD, including any of:
a. Exudative conjunctivitis
b. Exudative pharyngitis
c. Exudative tonsillitis
d. Discrete intra-oral ulcerations or lesions
e. Bullous or vesicular rash
f. Hepatosplenomegaly and generalized adenopathy (e.g. inguinal and cervical)
4. Known or suspected acute diagnosis of:
a. Viral infection adenovirus, enteroviruses, Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV, infectious mononucleosis), CytoMegaloVirus (CMV), measles
b. Bacterial infection bacterial cervical adenitis, scarlet fever, staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome, toxic shock syndrome (S. aureus or group A streptococcus)
c. Rickettsial infection - leptospirosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever
d. Drug hypersensitivity reaction
e. Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS)
f. Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA)
g. Leukaemia, lymphoma or other malignancy
h. Mercury hypersensitivity reaction (acrodynia)
5. Significant positive blood culture (single, non-contaminant organism)
6. Throat swab culture positive for group A streptococcus (Streptococcus pyogenes)
7. Positive Anti-Streptolysin-O titer (ASO titer)
8. Severe Congestive Heart Failure (CHF), with signs/symptoms present
9. Chronic renal failure
10. Liver failure
11. Severe systemic infection
12. Contraindication to systemic corticosteroid therapy:
a. History of allergic reaction (hypersensitivity) to intravenous methylprednisolone or one of its components
b. Severe allergy to an oral or intramuscular corticosteroid
c. Current treatment with any of: amphotericin, carbamazepine, cyclosporine, methotrexate
d. Active varicella infection
e. Exposure to case of varicella within the previous 21 days
13. Current oral, intravenous or intramuscular corticosteroid treatment
14. History of allergic reaction or severe systemic response to any human immune globulin preparation
15. Known Immunoglobulin A (IgA) deficiency or agammaglobulinaemia (antibody immune deficiency)
16. Lack of written informed parental consent
17. Enrolment in another study that might affect treatment delivery or efficacy or clinical follow-up
Administration of IVIG prior to enrolment does not necessarily exclude the child from enrolment in the trial. The presence of CA aneurysms on baseline echocardiogram is also not an exclusion criterion. However, any aneurysm must be documented by a study cardiologist.
Recruitment start date
01/09/2006
Recruitment end date
01/09/2012
Locations
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
Academic Unit of General Paediatrics and Child Health
Leeds
LS9 7TF
United Kingdom
Sponsor information
Organisation
University of Leeds (UK)
Sponsor details
Research Office
Level 7
Worsley Building
Clarendon Way
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
United Kingdom
+44 (0)113 343 7034
j.gower@leeds.ac.uk
Sponsor type
University/education
Website
Funders
Funder type
Not defined
Funder name
Non-commerical independent funding
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Results and Publications
Publication and dissemination plan
Not provided at time of registration
Intention to publish date
Participant level data
Not provided at time of registration
Results - basic reporting
Publication summary