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NCT07231523Not yet recruitingPhase 3

EFG vs IVIG in TAMG

Perioperative Efficacy and Safety of Efgartigimod Versus Intravenous Immunoglobulin for Thymoma Associated Myasthenia Gravis: a Prospective, Multicenter, Randomized Controlled Study

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 17 Nov 2025

Brief summary (registry, in English)

This study is a prospective, multi-center, randomized controlled study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of efgartigimod (EFG) and intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) in the perioperative application for acetylcholine receptor (AChR) antibody-positive thymoma patients with myasthenia gravis in order to provide reliable evidence for clinical decision-making.

Status (registry)
Not yet recruiting
Phase (registry)
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
64 (estimated)
First submitted
24 Sept 2025
Start date
1 Dec 2025
Primary completion date
1 Jun 2027
Lead sponsor
Shanghai Zhongshan Hospital
NCT number
NCT07231523

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional · Phase 3
  • Planned participants: 64
  • From 1 Dec 2025 to the primary completion date, 1 Jun 2027
  • 1 site in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.

Prior treatment

  • Patients with weight loss of more than 5kg in the past month; severe uncontrolled systemic disease, such as active infection or poorly controlled diabetes; patients with hemorrhagic diseases and bleeding tendencies; coagulation dysfunction, bleeding tendency or receiving thrombolytic or anticoagulant therapy; patients with grade II-IV bone marrow suppression;
  • Received biological agents such as rituximab or ibritumomab tiuxetan within 6 months; underwent plasma exchange within 1 month;
  • Selective IgA deficiency with anti-IgA antibodies;

Other illness

  • Confirmed history of congestive heart failure; poorly controlled angina pectoris with drug treatment; electrocardiogram (ECG) confirmed transmural myocardial infarction; poorly controlled hypertension; clinically significant valvular heart disease; or high-risk uncontrolled arrhythmia;
  • History of organ transplantation (including autologous bone marrow transplantation and peripheral stem cell transplantation);
  • Patients with peripheral nervous system disorders or significant mental disorders and a history of central nervous system disorders;
  • Patients who cannot tolerate single-lung ventilation during surgery; severe cardiac complications, cardiovascular decompensation, patients with implanted cardiac pacemakers;
  • Patients in the acute inflammatory period due to bacterial, viral or other microbial infections; known active infections of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV) or hepatitis C virus (HCV), or known HIV seropositivity;
  • Patients who have undergone thoracic surgery due to tuberculous pleurisy, mesothelioma, lung disease, or diaphragmatic disease, with ipsilateral lung atelectasis involving one lobe or more than one lobe;
  • Thrombosis, renal impairment or renal failure;
  • Allergic to human immunoglobulin or have other severe allergic history;

Lab values

  • Females with positive serum pregnancy test or in lactation period, and males and females of childbearing age who are unwilling to use adequate contraceptive measures during treatment;
  • Serum IgG level \<4.5 g/L;
  • Subjects with impaired function of major organs, abnormal blood routine, lung, liver, kidney and cardiac function, and the following laboratory test results:
    • Blood: white blood cells \<4.0×10\^9/L, absolute neutrophil count (ANC) \<2.0×10\^9/L, platelet count \<100×10\^9/L, hemoglobin \<90g/L; Liver function: serum bilirubin \>1.5 times the upper normal limit; ALT and AST \>1.5 times the upper normal limit; Renal function: serum creatinine (SCr) \>120 μmol/L, creatinine clearance rate (CCr) \<60 ml/min;

Other

  • MGFA type V;
  • Patients who have undergone median sternotomy;
  • Patients participating in other clinical studies simultaneously;

Who the study is looking for

  • Patients aged \>18 years and ≤75 years, with an expected survival time \>12 months;
  • Patients with generalized myasthenia gravis;
  • MG-ADL ≥6;
  • Positive for AChR antibody;
  • Diagnosed with thymoma by enhanced chest CT or MRI;
  • Patients with thymoma combined with myasthenia gravis who are diagnosed by MDT and need to undergo thymectomy;
  • Patients with American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) grade 1-2;
  • Able to understand the study situation and sign the Informed Consent.

Age in the registry: 18 years to 75 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (1)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Shanghai Zhongshan Hospital
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ShanghaiChinaUnknown status

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