Abstract
The prospective 1-year EPIC study enrolled 341 patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS); although baseline iron burden was >2500. ng/mL, ∼50% were chelation-naïve. Overall median serum ferritin decreased significantly at 1 year (p=0.002). Decreases occurred irrespective of whether patients were chelation-naïve or previously chelated; changes were dependent on dose adjustments and ongoing iron intake. Sustained reductions in labile plasma iron were observed. Discontinuation rate (48.7%) and adverse event profile were consistent with previously reported deferasirox data in MDS. Alanine aminotransferase levels decreased significantly; change correlated significantly with reduction in serum ferritin (p<0.0001). This large dataset prospectively confirms the efficacy and well characterizes the safety profile of deferasirox in MDS.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1143-1150 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Leukemia Research |
Volume | 34 |
Issue number | 9 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 2010 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors thank the patients and their family members that took part in this research project, and Dr Tao Hong, Jiaqiang Huang, Yangming Wang, and Bin Zhang for their valuable suggestions on the study and revisions on this manuscript. This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China , China ( 81100809 , 81271417 , 21205004 , 11171017 , 11371051 ) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China ( 2012JBM106 , 2012JBZ003 ).
Keywords
- Deferasirox
- Iron chelation therapy
- Labile plasma iron
- Myelodysplastic syndromes
- Serum ferritin