ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT06336733
Randomized Controlled Trial in Patients on Long-term Colchicine With Colchicine-resistant Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) to Evaluate the Efficacy of On-demand Anakinra Treatment for Painful Attacks in Patients Who Refuse Continuous Daily Therapy
Randomized Controlled Trial in Patients on Long-term Colchicine With Colchicine-resistant Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) to Evaluate the Efficacy of On-demand Anakinra Treatment for Painful Attacks in Patients Who Refuse Continuous Daily Therapy
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This randomized Phase 3 trial compares on‑demand anakinra plus daily colchicine with usual analgesics plus daily colchicine for attacks in people with colchicine‑resistant FMF who refuse continuous anti‑IL‑1 therapy. In the anakinra arm the drug is given from the prodrome of an attack until 24 hours after remission (up to 7 days). Participants are followed for six months. About 50 people are planned to join.
What it is studying. The study is testing on‑demand use of anakinra (100 mg daily) begun at the start of an FMF attack and continued until 24 hours after remission (maximum 7 days), added to background daily colchicine, compared with usual care using analgesics plus daily colchicine. Outcomes include how often attacks occur, how long and how painful attacks are, quality of life measures, days of treatment use, and recording of adverse events.
What the researchers hope to learn. To compare on‑demand anakinra plus colchicine with analgesics plus colchicine for colchicine‑resistant FMF attacks by measuring attack frequency, attack duration, pain severity, days of treatment use, quality of life, and adverse events.
What this study is about
The study's own summary, as published on ClinicalTrials.gov. Underlined terms have a short explanation.
To evaluate the efficacy on clinical symptoms in case of FMF attack among FMF patients resistant to Colchicine of
- on demand anakinra treatment (100 mg/d from the prodromal phase of the attack until 24 hours of remission (during 7 days maximum) associated with daily colchicine.
- compared to analgesic associated with daily colchicine in patients refusing continuous anti-IL-1 treatment.
Interventions being studied
Being studied in this trial does not mean the treatment or procedure is approved or available for this condition.
- Drug
- ANAKINRA
Eligibility
The criteria exactly as listed on ClinicalTrials.gov. Only the study team can say whether they apply to you.
Inclusion criteria
- Age >= 6 years old with no upper limit
- Proven FMF according to Livneh international criteria and 2 non ambiguous MEFV mutations.
- Colchicine resistance defined as persistent FMF attack despite the maximum daily posology of colchicine (average one or more attacks per month over a 3-months period)
- FMF Attack is defined by:
- Arthritis or
- Chest pain or
- Abdominal pain or
- Myalgia or
- Erysipelas-like skin lesion Duration of episodes 1-4 days.
- Patient refusing daily anakinra injections-
- Patients covered at 100% by the health insurance (ALD)
- Patient who do not have biological inflammation between attacks
- Written informed consent of the patients and or his legal representatives
Exclusion criteria
- Evidence of active tuberculosis
- Infection requiring treatment with intravenous antibiotics within 2 weeks prior to inclusion
- History of recurrent infection (Need more than 4 courses of antibiotic treatment per year (in children) or more >2 times per year (in adults), experience pneumonia twice over any time or >3 bacterial sinusitis in 1 year)
- Contraindication to anakinra (Hypersensitivity to the active substance or to any of the excipients (Citric acid, anhydrous Sodium chloride, Disodium edetate dehydrate, Polysorbate 80, Sodium hydroxide, Water for injections ) or to E. coli derived proteins
- Patients with neutropenia (ANC <1.5 x 10\^9/l)
- Inability to provide informed consent
- Ongoing chronic treatment with anti IL1 biotherapy since at least 3 months
- Pregnant women
- Women in labor and nursing mothers
- Patients in emergency situations and people hospitalized without consent
- No health care insurance
- Contraindication to colchicine
- Patient participating in another interventional clinical trial
- Patient deprived of liberty
- Patient under guardianship or curatorship
- Patient under court protection
- Randomization criteria :
- Absence of active or latent tuberculosis (no tuberculosis sign on chest X-ray and a negative quantiferon)
- Negative pregnancy test
Study description and what participation involves
The study's detailed description, as published on ClinicalTrials.gov.
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KIN-ATTACK-FMF will be the first randomized prospective study comparing the efficacy of on-demand anakinra versus standard of care treatment in patients with colchicine resistant symptoms of FMF who refuse continuous daily therapy. Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is the most common monogenic autoinflammatory disease (100,000 people worldwide and 7500 in France). It causes monthly recurrent febrile abdominal pain with a biological inflammatory syndrome. To prevent FMF attacks and development of inflammatory amyloidosis (IA) daily oral colchicine is the first line recommended treatment. 10 to 15% of patients are resistant to colchicine: persistence of 1attack/month over a period of 3 months (in spite of taking the maximum tolerated dose of colchicine daily). Subcutaneous anti-interleukin 1 biotherapies were recently allowed in France combined to daily oral colchicine for colchicine resistant FMF: anakinra (short-acting anti-IL1 drug, daily) or canakinumab (long acting monoclonal anti IL1 antibody, every 2 months). These treatments cost respectively 30 and 12,000 euros/injection. If abdominal attacks are controlled by colchicine, patients still suffer from lower limb pains, particularly erysipelas like erythema and exertional myalgias, which are very disabling and require use of analgesics or anti-inflammatory. However, in the referral center, 20% of colchicine resistant FMF patients don't receive chronic anti IL1 treatment, despite an indication. Main reasons are: 1-they do not want to inject themselves every day (for anakinra); 2-women of childbearing age are afraid about the impact of biotherapies on their fetus; 3-some do not want to ask for 100% coverage because of the biotherapy cost; 4- the authorization for anti IL1 in FMF is very recent and they want more certainty about its effectiveness. The hypothesis of the study is that on-demand use of Anakinra from onset of attack until 24 hours of remission (during 7 days maximum) associated with chronic daily colchicine as background treatment in case of attack could stop it, thus reducing its length and pain compared to standard of care treatment which includes only classical antalgics with colchicine in patients refusing chronic daily anti IL1 treatment. In the experimental arm, patients receive on demand anakinra treatment (100 mg/d from the prodromal phase of the attack until 24 hours of remission (during 7 days maximum) associated with daily colchicine. In the control arm, patients receive analgesics associated with daily colchicine. 50 participants should be included in the study during a period of 24 months with a 6 months participation period (treatment + follow up) It's a Multicenter national study including 11 centers.
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Participants are randomized to either on‑demand anakinra (100 mg/day from attack prodrome until 24 hours after remission, up to 7 days) plus daily colchicine and on‑demand analgesics, or to standard care (usual analgesics plus colchicine). Each participant is followed for 6 months with assessments at baseline, Month 1, Month 3 and Month 6. Patients keep a diary recording attacks, pain severity, days of injections or analgesic use, and complete monthly AIDAI activity scores and quality‑of‑life questionnaires; adverse events and local injection‑site reactions are also recorded. Screening and safety checks include TB screening (chest X‑ray and Quantiferon) and a pregnancy test before randomization.
How the study is structured. Randomized, open‑label (no masking), parallel‑group Phase 3 interventional trial. Participants are assigned to one of two groups and followed for six months with regular visits and symptom diaries.
Questions you could ask
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- The listed sites are in France. Is any of them reachable for me, and does the study help with travel?
- Which of the eligibility criteria would need to be checked with tests before I could join?
More on familial Mediterranean fever
Important dates
- Study start
- Jun 4, 2024
- Primary completion
- Dec 4, 2026 (estimated)
- Study completion
- Dec 4, 2026 (estimated)
- Target enrollment
- 50 participants (estimated)
- Last updated on registry
- Jun 25, 2025
- Data verified
- Oct 10, 2026
Sponsor and research team
The lead sponsor funds and oversees the trial. A pharmaceutical or biotech company sponsor typically means the study is testing that company's drug or device; a hospital, university, or government agency usually indicates investigator-initiated or publicly funded research.
- Lead sponsor
- Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Central study contact
If you're interested in participating, the central contact can answer general questions about the study — including eligibility requirements and how to find a recruiting site near you. Actual eligibility is determined by the site's medical team.
- Léa SAVEY 📞 0033 1 56 01 67 91 ✉ lea.savey@aphp.fr
- Sophie Georgin-Lavialle, MD,PHD 📞 00 33 1 56 01 74 31 ✉ sophie.georgin-lavialle@aphp.fr
Participating sites (1)
- Service de Médecine interne Hopital TenonRecruiting
Paris, 75020 · France
- Léa SAVEY · 00 33 1 56 01 60 77 · lea.savey@aphp.fr
- Sophie Georgin-Lavialle, MD,PHD · 0 33 1 56 01 74 31 · sophie.georgin-lavialle@aphp.fr
Terms used on this page · explanations by MedicalUpdates.ai
- Written informed consent
- The process of explaining a study, including its risks and what participation involves, so that a person can decide freely whether to take part. Consent is usually documented in writing, and a participant can choose to leave the study later.
- Contraindication
- A reason a particular test or treatment should not be used for a person, for example a metal implant that rules out an MRI scan.
- ANC
- The number of neutrophils, a type of white blood cell that fights infection, in a blood sample. Studies often require it to be above a set level.
- Randomization
- Participants are assigned to the study groups by chance, like a coin toss, rather than chosen by the doctor or the participant. This is done so the groups are comparable.
- Inclusion Criteria
- The conditions a person must meet to be considered for the study, for example a confirmed diagnosis, an age range or a test result.
- Exclusion Criteria
- The conditions that rule a person out even if they meet the inclusion criteria, for example other illnesses, certain medicines or pregnancy.
- standard of care
- Treatment generally considered appropriate for a condition in a particular clinical setting. It can vary by patient, place and over time. In many studies the new treatment is added to, or compared with, standard of care.
- maximum tolerated dose
- The highest dose found in a dose-escalation study that can be given without too many dose-limiting side effects.
- experimental arm
- One of the groups in a study. Each arm receives a particular intervention, comparator or no intervention, so the groups can be compared.
- control arm
- The group the study treatment is compared with. It may receive a placebo, an existing treatment (active comparator), a sham procedure, or no intervention.
- follow up
- The period after treatment or enrolment during which participants are observed or contacted, for example to record side effects or outcomes.
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