Rice-derived recombinant human serum albumin as an alternative to human plasma for patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis: a randomised, double-blind, positive-controlled and non-inferiority trial

作者：Junqi Niu, Yanhang Gao, Guiqiang Wang, Zhijie Qin, Cuisong Wu, Zu‐Jiang Yu, L. Wang, Zhongjie Hu, Xing Li, Zong Zhang, Y. Chen, Lvfeng Yao, Jinhui Yang, Guangming Li, Yida Yang, Xiaobo Lu, Ye Gu, Xiaofeng Wu, Xiaorong Mao, Zhongyin Zhou, Jia Shang, Bingliang Lin, Jidong Jia, Fengmei Wang, Jiming Zhang, Hongyan Ma, Xinrui Wang, Cliff Y Yang, Daichang Yang · 发表于：Gut · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.1136/gutjnl-2025-335577 · 被引用次数：11 · 研究领域：Liver Disease and Transplantation、Blood donation and transfusion practices、Trauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, Resuscitation

BACKGROUND: Despite inadequate supply and potential contamination risk, human plasma has remained the only source for human serum albumin (pHSA) intravenous administration since the 1940s. OBJECTIVE: (rice). DESIGN: In this multicentre, randomised, double-blind and positive-controlled study, patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis and serum albumin ≤30 g/L were recruited from 22 centres in China. The patients were randomly assigned to OsrHSA or pHSA (4:1) to once-daily intravenous injection (10 g or 20 g) until their serum albumin level reached 35 g/L, for a maximum of 2 weeks, with 2 weeks of follow-up. The primary outcome was the proportion of patients to reach a serum albumin level of 35 g/L (non-inferiority margin <-0.20). Outcomes were evaluated in patients who received the study drug and had at least one post-baseline serum albumin value (full analysis set, FAS). Safety was evaluated in all patients who received the study drug. RESULTS: Between 22 March 2021 and 2 June 2022, 220 patients received OsrHSA (n=175) or pHSA (n=45). 216 patients were included in the FAS (OsrHSA, n=171; pHSA, n=45). Primary outcome of OsrHSA (130/171, 76%) was non-inferior to pHSA (34/45, 75.6%) (difference=0.5%; lower limit of 97.5% CI=-0.119). There was no significant difference between all secondary outcomes of OsrHSA and pHSA. There were no drug-related serious adverse events. CONCLUSIONS: Rice-derived HSA is non-inferior to plasma-derived HSA in efficacy and safety. This finding shoul...