ABSTRACT:
Iptacopan is a first‐in‐class, oral, selective inhibitor of complement factor B that has demonstrated positive efficacy across several complement‐driven diseases. Here we evaluate the efficacy and safety of iptacopan monotherapy in adult patients with primary immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) and primary cold agglutinin disease (CAD). We performed a global, multicenter, phase 2 basket study enrolling patients with primary ITP or CAD after failure of ≥ 1 unique prior therapies. Primary endpoints were platelet response (≥ 50 × 10
9
/L) for ITP and hemoglobin response (≥ 1.5 g/dL increase) for CAD sustained for ≥ 2 consecutive weeks during the first 12 weeks of iptacopan treatment, without the use of rescue therapy. Other endpoints included time to first response, duration of response, pharmacokinetics, safety/tolerability, and FACIT‐Fatigue. Nineteen patients were treated with iptacopan (9 ITP, 10 CAD). Among patients with CAD, most showed improvements in hemoglobin levels, with a mean increase of 2.2 g/dL from baseline to week 12; five (50%) patients achieved the primary endpoint. Improvements were also observed for other outcomes in CAD, including lactate dehydrogenase, bilirubin, reticulocytes, and FACIT‐Fatigue. Conversely, no patients with ITP met the primary endpoint. Most treatment‐emergent adverse events (TEAEs) were mild, the most common being headache (21%), asthenia (16%), fatigue (16%), and petechiae (16%). Iptacopan monotherapy demonstrated encouraging preliminary efficacy in primary CAD, while no protocol‐defined responses were observed in primary ITP. Iptacopan may represent a promising oral option for CAD and was well tolerated in both ITP and CAD with no unexpected safety signals.
Trial Registration:ClinicalTrials.gov
identifier: NCT05086744