Status:
COMPLETED
SC12267 (4SC-101) for Treatment of Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Lead Sponsor:
4SC AG
Conditions:
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-70 years
Phase:
PHASE2
Brief Summary
This is an exploratory, open-label, uncontrolled, multi-center, 1-arm study conducted at 16 sites in Bulgaria, Germany and Romania. A total of ca. 30 - 35 patients will receive SC12267 (4SC-101) tabl...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Criteria regarding Crohn´s Disease:
- Established diagnosis of CD, confirmed by standard criteria (e.g. endoscopy, ultrasound, X-ray)
- Patients must be in clinical remission (Crohn's Disease Activity Index \[CDAI\] \<150 points) on steroid therapy for at least 2 weeks
- Confirmed steroid-dependency of CD: patients who are either
- unable to taper steroids completely within 3 months of starting steroids, without recurrent active disease, or
- who have a relapse within 2 months of stopping steroids
- Individual threshold\* dose of previous relapses should be equal or less than 20 mg/day Prednisolone or equivalent steroid dose
- Patients with stable glucocorticosteroid therapy between 20 and 40 mg/day Prednisolone or equivalent steroid dose for the previous week
- Criteria regarding Ulcerative Colitis:
- Established diagnosis of UC, confirmed by standard criteria (e.g. endoscopy, ultrasound, X-ray)
- Patients must be in clinical remission (Clinical Activity Index \[CAI\] \<4 points) on steroid therapy for at least 2 weeks
- Confirmed steroid-dependency of UC: patients who are either
- unable to taper steroids completely within 3 months of starting steroids, without recurrent active disease, or
- who have a relapse within 2 months of stopping steroids
- Individual threshold\* dose of previous relapses should be equal or less than 20 mg/day Prednisolone or equivalent steroid dose
- Patients with stable glucocorticosteroid therapy between 20 and 40 mg/day Prednisolone or equivalent steroid dose for the previous week
- (\* The threshold dose is that dose at which the patient experienced the relapses)
- Criteria regarding general requirements:
- Men and women, 18 to 70 years of age
- Written informed consent
- Negative pregnancy test at screening in females of child-bearing potential
- Males willing to use condoms or to be sexually abstinent
- Use of appropriate contraceptive methods for females of childbearing potential one month before, throughout the course of the study and one month after study termination. This must be a combination of the following:
- a highly effective method of first choice = a method with a low failure rate (i.e. less than 1% per year) like sexual abstinence, combined oral contraceptives, implants, injectables, some Intra Uterine Devices (IUDs), vasectomized partner
- together with
- a method of second choice like condom, diaphragm, or cup pessary
Exclusion
- Criteria regarding gastrointestinal conditions:
- Short bowel syndrome
- Ileostomy, colostomy or rectal pouch
- Relapse during screening
- Criteria regarding medical history:
- History of or existence of active tuberculosis
- History of or existence of urolithiasis
- History of or existence of human immune deficiency virus (HIV), Hepatitis B or C
- History of malignancy within the past five years (excluding basal cell carcinoma of the skin)
- Previous opportunistic infection
- History of serious drug sensitivity
- Criteria regarding concomitant diseases:
- Significant cardiac arrhythmia, bradycardia or tachycardia or any other significant finding in the electrocardiogram (ECG)
- Congestive heart failure
- Uncontrolled arterial hypertension
- Uncontrolled asthma
- Renal disease
- Renal insufficiency defined as glomerular filtration rate (GRF) \<50 ml/min/1.73 m² (estimated GRF according to Cockcroft-Gault)
- Psychiatric illness
- Known or suspected immunodeficiency
- Laboratory abnormalities: hemoglobin \<8.5 g/dl, white blood cell count \<3500/mm³, platelet count \<125 000/mm³, clinically relevant elevation of liver enzymes, serum creatinine level \>=1.4 mg/dl, hematuria (\>=10 erythrocytes/field on dipsticks)
- Criteria regarding concomitant circumstances:
- Pregnancy, lactation
- History of alcohol and/or drug dependence
- Heavy smoking (more than 20 cigarettes per day)
- Use of prohibited drugs or treatments
- Patient not able or not willing to follow study procedures due to physical or psychological limitations or language problems
- Participation in another investigational drug or vaccine trial within the last three months or concurrently with this study
- Vaccination with life attenuated viruses within 4 weeks prior to study start
- Patient with any medical condition which, in the opinion of the investigator or his designee, could jeopardize or compromise the ability of the patient to participate in the trial
- Patients possibly dependent on the investigator or the sponsor
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
March 1 2009
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
March 1 2011
Estimated Enrollment :
34 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00820365
Start Date
March 1 2009
End Date
March 1 2011
Last Update
May 18 2011
Active Locations (16)
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1
Tokuda Hospital Gastroenterology Division Internal Medicine Department
Sofia, Bulgaria, 1407
2
UMHAT "Sv. Ivan Rilski" Gastroenterology Clinic
Sofia, Bulgaria, 1431
3
UMHAT "Tsaritsa Ioanna" - ISUL Gastroenterology Clinic
Sofia, Bulgaria, 1527
4
Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum
Berlin, Germany