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Pediatric Vasculitis Initiative (PedVas)
Update for CORD Rare Disease Conference,
March 2015
Susa Benseler, MD PhD
Chief Rheumatology, Alberta Children’s Hospital
on behalf of
David Cabral
Dirk Foell
Jinko Graham
Bob Hancock
Raashid Luqmani
Colin Ross
International childhood vasculitis investigators
contributing to ARChiVe, BrainWorks & DCVAS
A CIHR Emerging Team Grant in Rare Disease (2012)
Pediatric Vasculitis Initiative (PedVas)
• CIHR- , Vasculitis foundation and CORD-
supported opportunity to support existing
clinical childhood vasculitis networks with a
translational research component involving
collection & analysis of biological samples and
Knowledge Translation
• International & multi-disciplinary collaboration
between bench scientists and clinicians
9 year old girl
• ER: presented with weeks of fever on and off,
fatigue, congestion, swollen glands,
nosebleeds and cough
• Previously perfectly healthy
Laboratory test results
• High levels of inflammatory markers
• No evidence of infection
• Positive ANCA antibodies
Chest imaging
Cavitating lung lesions and nodules
Destructive disease
Destroyed sinus walls and saddle nose deformity
Diagnosis: Childhood vasculitis
6 year old girl
• For 2 weeks complaining
of nausea, headaches,
mood changes, school
concentration difficulties
• ? Virus infection
(pediatrician)
• ER: blood work and CT
normal
• Perfectly health in the past medical history
• No travel, no infection, no injury
6 year old girl
Laboratory test results
• High levels of inflammatory markers
• No evidence of brain infection or bleed
• Spinal tap: inflammation/irritation
Acute worsening
• Vomiting, headache,
• Decreased level of
conciousness,
• neck stiffness
• Seizure status
• No fever, no other
symptoms
MRI brain imaging
• Wide spread
inflammation
• No stroke
• No tumor
Elective brain biopsy
Central Nervous System (CNS) vasculitis
Diagnosis: Childhood vasculitis
Questions asked by families and
health care providers
• What is childhood vasculitis?
• What caused it? Are siblings at risk?
• How to best make the diagnosis and avoid
invasive tests?
• Is there a cure?
• Which treatment to choose? Are the
treatments dangerous?
• How will this affect her future?
A registry for childhood systemic vasculitis
• 40 US/Canadian centers
• Launched 2008
A prospective registry for CNS vasculitis
• 210 centers around the word
• Launched 2010
Building international networks…
David Cabral and Susa Benseler
• Approach: Learn from each and every child
• Web-based, password secured
prospective data collections that connect
physicians of many disciplines around the world
• Provides treatment protocols, SOPs, review
scales, outcome tools, literature updates and
second opinions
• Publications, advocacy, data ownership rule
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Right
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28
85
37
8
5
4
19
36
28
33
NP-cPACNS
P-cPACNS
SV-cPACNS
Neuronal antibody
mediated IBrainD
Demyelinating brain disease
T-cell mediated IBrainD
Granulomatous disease
Secondary IBrainD to
infection
Secondary IBrainD to
underlying systemic disease
Moya Moya syndrome
Childhood inflammatory brain diseases
N=416, Feb 2015
116
28
85
37
8
5
4
19
36
28
33
NP-cPACNS
P-cPACNS
SV-cPACNS
Neuronal antibody mediated
IBrainD
Demyelinating brain disease
T-cell mediated IBrainD
Granulomatous disease
Secondary IBrainD to
infection
Secondary IBrainD to
underlying systemic disease
N=416, Feb 2015
Angiography-positive
primary childhood CNS vasculitis
N=144
116
28
85
37
8
5
4
19
36
28
33
NP-cPACNS
P-cPACNS
SV-cPACNS
Neuronal antibody mediated
IBrainD
Demyelinating brain disease
T-cell mediated IBrainD
Granulomatous disease
Secondary IBrainD to
infection
Secondary IBrainD to
underlying systemic disease
Moya Moya syndrome
Angiography-negative
small vessel primary childhood CNS vasculitis
N=85
Questions asked by families and
health care providers
• What is childhood vasculitis?
• What caused it? Are siblings at risk?
• How to best make the diagnosis and avoid
invasive tests?
• Which treatment to choose? Are the
treatments dangerous?
• How will this affect her future?
• Is there a cure?
What is
vasculitis?
Vasculitis is a
devastating disease
Clinical diagnosis
N = 165
Cellucci, 2013
Questions asked by families and
health care providers
• What is childhood vasculitis?
• What caused it? Are her siblings at risk?
• How to best make the diagnosis and avoid
invasive tests?
• Which treatment to choose? Are the
treatments dangerous?
• How will this affect her future?
• Is there a cure?
vWF: A potential biomarker
• N= 102 cPACNS patients
Cellucci, 2012 Rheumatology
Fresh CNS vasculitis
Longstanding disease
Canadian Neuropathology study
• Neuropathologists across Canada, external
experts including Harry Vinters, lead: Cynthia
Hawkins
• Tasks:
– development and validation of a Brain Biopsy Review
Tool for Childhood CNS vasculitis
– Defining childhood CNS vasculitis histologically
Tool development completed, RedCap version
Validation: 50 biopsies (cPACNS, other IBrainD,
epilepsy surgery specimens)
• Consensus meeting, Manuscripts in preparation
Towards a histological diagnosis of cPACNS
30 SVcPACNS cases
10 epilepsy controls
10 inflammatory controls
Questions asked by families and
health care providers
• What is childhood vasculitis?
• What caused it? Are her siblings at risk?
• How to best make the diagnosis and avoid
invasive tests?
• Is there a cure?
• Which treatment to choose? Are the
treatments dangerous?
• How will this affect her future?
Small vessel cPACNS treatment
Treatment protocol
Small vessel cPACNS
http://www.sickkids.ca/Research/Brainworks/Welcome/Welcome.html
…or google childhood CNS vasculitis
BrainWorks
http://www.sickkids.ca/Research/Brainworks/Welcome/Welcome.html
…or google childhood CNS vasculitis
BrainWorks
Small vessel cPACNS outcome
Hutchinson, Lancet Neurology 2010
SVcPACNS Flares
Cyclophophamid
Prednisone
MMF
Azathioprine Relapse: ON
Diagnosis 6 Months 12 Months 18 Months 24 Months
Anti-TNFα Therapy
in refractory SVcPACNS
Bhattish, 2012, J Rheumatology
BrainWorks website
Twilt, Nature Reviews 2012
http://www.sickkids.ca/Research/Brainworks/Welcome/Welcome.html
…or google childhood CNS vasculitis
Successful partnerships
N=501
adult
encephalitis patients
N=177
< 18 years of age
Titulaer, Lancet Neurology 2014
Titulaer, Lancet Neurology2014
Outcome:
Relapses
• Assessing pediatric phenotype & outcomes.
• Assessing, developing clinical tools (classification,
severity, activity, damage) & treatment protocols
to help physicians
• Embedded comparative study with adults & DCVAS
• Re-evaluating ‘classification’ using
bioinformatics to evaluate clinical data with
linked gene expression profiles.
• Biomarker discovery
PedVas
Current Status
Site recruitment
– 48 sites from 10 countries collecting clinical data
– 21 sites from 7 countries with ethics for biosampling
Clinical data
– 381 systemic vasculitis patients
– 228 primary CNS vasculitis patients
(Approx 90% have follow-up data up to 12 months)
Biological samples
– 93 patients contributed (RNA, DNA, serum, plasma, urine)
• First adult (DCVAS) samples collected in Aug ’14
• Abstracts 5, manuscripts: 4 published, 3 in preparation
Supports existing vasculitis registries to collect &
analyse clinical data, biological samples & KT.
PedVas
Challenges
Difficulties in cIinical data versus biosamples!
• ethics approval challenges for blood collection and
shipping across borders
• contract negotiations between universities because
funding is being provided
• workload (& costs) for bio-sampling and shipping
• Some countries sites prohibit release of biosamples
Study start-up activities taking up to 12 months per site
(ethics approval, contract negotiation, laboratory set-up, training)
Site Initiation Timeline
New site or
Existing ARChiVe/
Brainworks site
Ethics amendment or
Brand new application
Agreements Review
-Funds Transfer Letter
- Material Transfer
Agreement (if required)
- UBC UILO Office
- Site Legal Office
• Time to ethics approval: 10 months
(Ranges 2 - 19 m (some pending for > 20 months)
• Time to fully signed agreement: 4 months
(Ranges 1 to 8 m (some pending for > 13 months)
Average
time:
4 months
Average
time:
10 months
Site Study Start-up
- Laboratory Set-up
- Site Initiation
Call/Training
- Database access
- Supplies mailed
Recruitment!
Approx
1 month
Approx
1 month
Preliminary Data:
Early outcomes in pediatric systemic vasculitis
Morishita K, et al at ACR Boston 2014
• 79 children: 6- and 12-month outcomes
• Primary findings:
– Majority had severe disease with kidney failure and lung bleeds
disease
– Only half achieved remission by 6 months
– Only two thirds achieved remission by 12 months
– One in two children relapses
– A significant proportion of patients have evidence of damage
even by 12 months
Preliminary Data:
S100 A12 Biomarkers
S100A12 measured healthy
people and children with
vasculitis
Serum S100A12 levels are
highest at the time of diagnosis
when vasculitis is most active.
(More sensitive than ESR & CRP)
Levels decline after treatment,
but rarely reaches levels
measured in serum from healthy
individuals
Biomarker discovery
EGF: epidermal growth
factor
Eotaxin
FGF-2(basic)
Fractalkine
GM-CSF
IFNalpha2 and IFNgamma
IL-1alpha, IL-1beta, IL-1Ra
IL-2,IL-3, IL-5, IL-6, IL-7,
IL-8, IL-9, IL-10, IL-12,
IL-13, IL-15, IL-17
IP-10
MCP-3
MDC
MIP1alpha
PDGF-AA/AB/BB
CD40L (CD154)
sIL-2Ralpha
TGFalpha
TNFbeta
ENA-78
SDF-1alpha + beta
Inflammatory Biomarker Profiles
Mineyko, 2012
Preliminary Data:
gene expression profiles
Thank you…

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Pediatric Vasculitis Initiative (PedVas) A CIHR Emerging Team Grant in Rare Disease (2012)

  • 1. Pediatric Vasculitis Initiative (PedVas) Update for CORD Rare Disease Conference, March 2015 Susa Benseler, MD PhD Chief Rheumatology, Alberta Children’s Hospital on behalf of David Cabral Dirk Foell Jinko Graham Bob Hancock Raashid Luqmani Colin Ross International childhood vasculitis investigators contributing to ARChiVe, BrainWorks & DCVAS A CIHR Emerging Team Grant in Rare Disease (2012)
  • 2. Pediatric Vasculitis Initiative (PedVas) • CIHR- , Vasculitis foundation and CORD- supported opportunity to support existing clinical childhood vasculitis networks with a translational research component involving collection & analysis of biological samples and Knowledge Translation • International & multi-disciplinary collaboration between bench scientists and clinicians
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  • 4. 9 year old girl • ER: presented with weeks of fever on and off, fatigue, congestion, swollen glands, nosebleeds and cough • Previously perfectly healthy
  • 5. Laboratory test results • High levels of inflammatory markers • No evidence of infection • Positive ANCA antibodies
  • 6. Chest imaging Cavitating lung lesions and nodules
  • 7. Destructive disease Destroyed sinus walls and saddle nose deformity
  • 9. 6 year old girl • For 2 weeks complaining of nausea, headaches, mood changes, school concentration difficulties • ? Virus infection (pediatrician) • ER: blood work and CT normal
  • 10. • Perfectly health in the past medical history • No travel, no infection, no injury 6 year old girl
  • 11. Laboratory test results • High levels of inflammatory markers • No evidence of brain infection or bleed • Spinal tap: inflammation/irritation
  • 12. Acute worsening • Vomiting, headache, • Decreased level of conciousness, • neck stiffness • Seizure status • No fever, no other symptoms
  • 13. MRI brain imaging • Wide spread inflammation • No stroke • No tumor
  • 14. Elective brain biopsy Central Nervous System (CNS) vasculitis
  • 16. Questions asked by families and health care providers • What is childhood vasculitis? • What caused it? Are siblings at risk? • How to best make the diagnosis and avoid invasive tests? • Is there a cure? • Which treatment to choose? Are the treatments dangerous? • How will this affect her future?
  • 17. A registry for childhood systemic vasculitis • 40 US/Canadian centers • Launched 2008 A prospective registry for CNS vasculitis • 210 centers around the word • Launched 2010 Building international networks… David Cabral and Susa Benseler
  • 18. • Approach: Learn from each and every child • Web-based, password secured prospective data collections that connect physicians of many disciplines around the world • Provides treatment protocols, SOPs, review scales, outcome tools, literature updates and second opinions • Publications, advocacy, data ownership rule
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  • 26. 116 28 85 37 8 5 4 19 36 28 33 NP-cPACNS P-cPACNS SV-cPACNS Neuronal antibody mediated IBrainD Demyelinating brain disease T-cell mediated IBrainD Granulomatous disease Secondary IBrainD to infection Secondary IBrainD to underlying systemic disease Moya Moya syndrome Childhood inflammatory brain diseases N=416, Feb 2015
  • 27. 116 28 85 37 8 5 4 19 36 28 33 NP-cPACNS P-cPACNS SV-cPACNS Neuronal antibody mediated IBrainD Demyelinating brain disease T-cell mediated IBrainD Granulomatous disease Secondary IBrainD to infection Secondary IBrainD to underlying systemic disease N=416, Feb 2015 Angiography-positive primary childhood CNS vasculitis N=144
  • 28. 116 28 85 37 8 5 4 19 36 28 33 NP-cPACNS P-cPACNS SV-cPACNS Neuronal antibody mediated IBrainD Demyelinating brain disease T-cell mediated IBrainD Granulomatous disease Secondary IBrainD to infection Secondary IBrainD to underlying systemic disease Moya Moya syndrome Angiography-negative small vessel primary childhood CNS vasculitis N=85
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  • 30. Questions asked by families and health care providers • What is childhood vasculitis? • What caused it? Are siblings at risk? • How to best make the diagnosis and avoid invasive tests? • Which treatment to choose? Are the treatments dangerous? • How will this affect her future? • Is there a cure?
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  • 34. Clinical diagnosis N = 165 Cellucci, 2013
  • 35. Questions asked by families and health care providers • What is childhood vasculitis? • What caused it? Are her siblings at risk? • How to best make the diagnosis and avoid invasive tests? • Which treatment to choose? Are the treatments dangerous? • How will this affect her future? • Is there a cure?
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  • 37. vWF: A potential biomarker • N= 102 cPACNS patients Cellucci, 2012 Rheumatology
  • 40. Canadian Neuropathology study • Neuropathologists across Canada, external experts including Harry Vinters, lead: Cynthia Hawkins • Tasks: – development and validation of a Brain Biopsy Review Tool for Childhood CNS vasculitis – Defining childhood CNS vasculitis histologically Tool development completed, RedCap version Validation: 50 biopsies (cPACNS, other IBrainD, epilepsy surgery specimens) • Consensus meeting, Manuscripts in preparation
  • 41. Towards a histological diagnosis of cPACNS 30 SVcPACNS cases 10 epilepsy controls 10 inflammatory controls
  • 42. Questions asked by families and health care providers • What is childhood vasculitis? • What caused it? Are her siblings at risk? • How to best make the diagnosis and avoid invasive tests? • Is there a cure? • Which treatment to choose? Are the treatments dangerous? • How will this affect her future?
  • 43. Small vessel cPACNS treatment
  • 47. Small vessel cPACNS outcome Hutchinson, Lancet Neurology 2010
  • 48. SVcPACNS Flares Cyclophophamid Prednisone MMF Azathioprine Relapse: ON Diagnosis 6 Months 12 Months 18 Months 24 Months
  • 49. Anti-TNFα Therapy in refractory SVcPACNS Bhattish, 2012, J Rheumatology
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  • 60. Successful partnerships N=501 adult encephalitis patients N=177 < 18 years of age Titulaer, Lancet Neurology 2014
  • 62.
  • 63. • Assessing pediatric phenotype & outcomes. • Assessing, developing clinical tools (classification, severity, activity, damage) & treatment protocols to help physicians • Embedded comparative study with adults & DCVAS • Re-evaluating ‘classification’ using bioinformatics to evaluate clinical data with linked gene expression profiles. • Biomarker discovery PedVas
  • 64. Current Status Site recruitment – 48 sites from 10 countries collecting clinical data – 21 sites from 7 countries with ethics for biosampling Clinical data – 381 systemic vasculitis patients – 228 primary CNS vasculitis patients (Approx 90% have follow-up data up to 12 months) Biological samples – 93 patients contributed (RNA, DNA, serum, plasma, urine) • First adult (DCVAS) samples collected in Aug ’14 • Abstracts 5, manuscripts: 4 published, 3 in preparation
  • 65. Supports existing vasculitis registries to collect & analyse clinical data, biological samples & KT. PedVas
  • 66. Challenges Difficulties in cIinical data versus biosamples! • ethics approval challenges for blood collection and shipping across borders • contract negotiations between universities because funding is being provided • workload (& costs) for bio-sampling and shipping • Some countries sites prohibit release of biosamples Study start-up activities taking up to 12 months per site (ethics approval, contract negotiation, laboratory set-up, training)
  • 67. Site Initiation Timeline New site or Existing ARChiVe/ Brainworks site Ethics amendment or Brand new application Agreements Review -Funds Transfer Letter - Material Transfer Agreement (if required) - UBC UILO Office - Site Legal Office • Time to ethics approval: 10 months (Ranges 2 - 19 m (some pending for > 20 months) • Time to fully signed agreement: 4 months (Ranges 1 to 8 m (some pending for > 13 months) Average time: 4 months Average time: 10 months Site Study Start-up - Laboratory Set-up - Site Initiation Call/Training - Database access - Supplies mailed Recruitment! Approx 1 month Approx 1 month
  • 68. Preliminary Data: Early outcomes in pediatric systemic vasculitis Morishita K, et al at ACR Boston 2014 • 79 children: 6- and 12-month outcomes • Primary findings: – Majority had severe disease with kidney failure and lung bleeds disease – Only half achieved remission by 6 months – Only two thirds achieved remission by 12 months – One in two children relapses – A significant proportion of patients have evidence of damage even by 12 months
  • 69. Preliminary Data: S100 A12 Biomarkers S100A12 measured healthy people and children with vasculitis Serum S100A12 levels are highest at the time of diagnosis when vasculitis is most active. (More sensitive than ESR & CRP) Levels decline after treatment, but rarely reaches levels measured in serum from healthy individuals
  • 70. Biomarker discovery EGF: epidermal growth factor Eotaxin FGF-2(basic) Fractalkine GM-CSF IFNalpha2 and IFNgamma IL-1alpha, IL-1beta, IL-1Ra IL-2,IL-3, IL-5, IL-6, IL-7, IL-8, IL-9, IL-10, IL-12, IL-13, IL-15, IL-17 IP-10 MCP-3 MDC MIP1alpha PDGF-AA/AB/BB CD40L (CD154) sIL-2Ralpha TGFalpha TNFbeta ENA-78 SDF-1alpha + beta
  • 73.