A new manufacturing process to remove thrombogenic factors (II, VII, IX, X, and XI) from intravenous immunoglobulin gamma preparations

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• 作者：Dong Hwarn Park^a ; Gil Bu Kang^a ; Dae Eun Kang^a ; Jeung Woon Hong^a ; Min Gyu Lee^b ; Ki Yong Kim^a ; ^{kimky@greencross.com} ; Jeung Whan Han^b ; ^{jhhan551@skku.edu}
• 关键词：Intravenous immunoglobulin G ; Thromboembolic events ; Coagulation factor XIa ; Procoagulant activity
• 刊名：Biologicals
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：45
• 期：Complete
• 页码：1-8
• 全文大小：1063 K
• 卷排序：45

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Coagulation factors (II, VII, IX, X, and particularly XIa) remaining in high concentrations in intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) preparations can form thrombi, causing thromboembolic events, and in serious cases, result in death. Therefore, manufacturers of biological products must investigate the ability of their production processes to remove procoagulant activities. Previously, we were able to remove coagulation factors II, VII, IX, and X from our IVIG preparation through ethanol precipitation, but factor XIa, which plays an important role in thrombosis, remained in the intermediate products. Here, we used a chromatographic process using a new resin that binds with high capacity to IgG and removes procoagulant activities. The procoagulant activities were reduced to low levels as determined by the thrombin generation assay: <1.56 mIU/mL, chromogenic FXIa assay: <0.16 mIU/mL, non-activated partial thromboplastin time (NaPTT): >250 s, FXI/FXIa ELISA: <0.31 ng/mL. Even after spiking with FXIa at a concentration 32.5 times higher than the concentration in normal specimens, the procoagulant activities were below the detection limit (<0.31 ng/mL). These results demonstrate the ability of our manufacturing process to remove procoagulant activities to below the detection limit (except by NaPTT), suggesting a reduced risk of thromboembolic events that maybe potentially caused by our IVIG preparation.