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Abandoned trial: could a platelet booster help aplastic anemia?
NCT ID NCT05018936
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study planned to test the drug hetrombopag in people with non-severe aplastic anemia, a condition where the bone marrow doesn't make enough blood cells. The goal was to see if the drug could safely raise platelet counts. However, the trial was withdrawn before enrolling any participants, so no data was collected.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Hetrombopag (a drug that helps increase platelet counts)
- What this could lead to
- If it had worked, this could have pointed toward a new treatment option for people with non-severe aplastic anemia who have low platelet counts.
- What could go wrong
- This trial was withdrawn before it even started, so no results are available. The approach was still experimental and had not been tested in this specific group.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 2/3
Runs two stages together: whether the treatment works, then large-scale confirmation.
- Expected to start
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Oct 2021
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2023
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 to 75 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Patients diagnosed to be non-severe aplastic anemia 2. Patients with platelet count \< 30×109/L and have at least one of the followings: ①absolute neutrophil count \< 1.5×109/L, ②platelet count \< 50×109/L, ③ hemoglobin level \< 100g/L 3. Patients have no response or relapsed following at least one treatment course in a period time of \> 6 months of immunosuppression containing CsA or CsA+anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG); 4. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0-2; 5. Patients able to understand and comply with protocol requirements and instructions and have signed and dated informed consent. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Congenital aplastic anemia; 2. Presence of chromosomal aberration; 3. Evidence of a clonal hematologic bone marrow disorder (MDS, AML) on cytogenetics; 4. Presence with PNH clone ≥50%; 5. Patients received HSCT before; 6. Uncontrolled infection or bleeding with standard treatment; 7. Allergic to Hetrombopag or accessories; 8. HIV, HCV or HBV active infection or liver cirrhosis or portal hypertension; 9. Patient with QTcF (Fridericia's QT correction formula) at screening \<450 msec, or\<480 msec with bundle branch block, as determined via the mean of a triplicate ECG and assessed at site, unstable angina pectoris, uncontrolled hypertension(\>180/100mmHg),pulmonary artery hypertension; 10. Have any concomitant malignancies within 5 years expect for local basal cell carcinoma of the skin; 11. Past history of thromboembolic event, heart attack or stroke (including anti-phospholipid antibody syndrome) and current use of anticoagulants; 12. Pregnant or nursing (lactating) woman; 13. Have attended other clinical trials within 3 months;
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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Peking Union Medical College Hospital
Beijing, 100730, China
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