A DOUBLE-BLIND, RANDOMIZED, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED, MULTICENTER, DOSE-RANGING STUDY TO EVALUATE THE EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF PF 04236921 IN SUBJECTS WITH SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS (SLE)
- Conditions
- Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, NEC
- Registration Number
- KCT0000909
- Lead Sponsor
- Pfizer Korea
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Active, not recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 180
Subjects must meet all of the following inclusion criteria to be eligible for enrollment into the study:
1.Evidence of a personally signed and dated informed consent form document indicating that the subject (or legally acceptable representative) has been informed of all pertinent aspects of the study.
2.Subjects who are willing and able to comply with scheduled visits, treatment plan, laboratory tests, and other study procedures.
3.Male and/or female subjects between the ages of ?18 and ?75 years old at the time of signing of Informed Consent Form (ICF).
4.Have a clinical diagnosis of SLE according to the 1997 update on the 1982 revised American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria.
5.Have unequivocally positive anti-nuclear antibody (ANA) test results by either:
-Positive test result from within the study screening period. Screening results must be based on the study’s central laboratory results. A positive ANA test is defined as an ANA titer =1:80 and/or a positive anti dsDNA serum antibody.
OR
-One positive historical test result that in the opinion of the investigator and the sponsor is unequivocally due to SLE. Historical documentation of a positive test of ANA (eg, ANA by HEp-2 titer, ANA by ELISA) or anti-dsDNA (eg, anti dsDNA by Farr assay or ELISA) must include the date and type of the test, the testing laboratory name, numerical reference range, and a key that explains values provided as positive versus negative OR negative, equivocal/borderline, positive. Only unequivocally positive values as defined in the laboratory’s reference range are acceptable; borderline values will not be accepted.
6.Active disease at screening defined by both:
-SLEDAI-2K score of ?6, and
-BILAG Level A disease in ?1 organ system [except renal or central nervous system (CNS)] or BILAG B disease in ?2 organ systems if no level A disease is present.
7.Are on stable SLE treatment consisting of any of the following medications (alone or in combination) for at least 30 days prior to the Day 1 visit (first dose of study medication):
- Corticosteroids (prednisone or prednisone equivalent, up to 25 mg/day). For those patients on alternating day doses of corticosteroids, use the average of two daily doses to calculate the average daily steroid dose.
- Other immunosuppressive or immunomodulatory agents including methotrexate, azathioprine, leflunomide, mycophenolate (including mycophenolate mofetil, mycophenolate mofetil hydrochloride, and mycophenolate sodium), 6-mercaptopurine or thalidomide.
- Anti-malarials (eg, hydroxychloroquine, chloroquine, quinacrine).
8.All women of childbearing potential (WOCBP) must have a negative serum pregnancy test result at screening and a negative urine pregnancy test result at baseline and prior to receiving each treatment.
- WOCBP are defined as women who are biologically capable of becoming pregnant, including women who are using contraceptives or whose sexual partners are either sterile or using contraceptives.
- Women of non childbearing (WONCBP) potential are defined as either females who are over the age of 60, females who are 45 to 60 years of age must be amenorrheic for at least 2 years PLUS have a serum FSH level within the laboratory’s reference range for postmenopausal, or females who are surgically sterile, such as after hysterectomy, bilateral oophorectomy, or tubal ligation (procedure performed ?52 weeks before screening). This information must be documented in the subject’s source documents
Subjects presenting with any of the following will not be included in the study:
1.Any prior history of treatment with PF-04236921, or anti-IL-6 agent.
2.Have received any of the following within 364 days of Day 1:
- A biologic investigational agent other than those noted below (eg, abatacept or interferon alpha inhibitors). (Investigational agent is defined as any drug not approved for sale in the country in which it is being used).
- Have required 3 or more courses of systemic corticosteroids for concomitant conditions (eg, asthma, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, systemic vasculitis, atopic dermatitis) within 364 days of Day 1 (Topical or inhaled steroids are permitted).
3.Received IV cyclophosphamide within 180 days of Day 1.
4.Have received any of the following within 90 days of Day 1:
- Anti-TNF therapy (eg, adalimumab, etanercept, infliximab).
- Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (anakinra).
- Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG).
- High dose corticosteroids (>100 mg/day prednisone or equivalent) or pulse IV doses.
- Plasmapheresis.
5.Have received any of the following within 60 days of Day 1:
- Any intramuscular, or intravenous steroid injection.
- Any new immunosuppressive/immunomodulatory agent, or anti-malarial agent. (See Inclusion Criteria #7). New inhaled and/or new topical immunosuppressive agents (eg, eye drops, topical creams) are allowed.
6.Have received any of the following within 30 days of Day 1:
- A live vaccine.
- Any new or change in dose of a corticosteroid, any change in dose of a immunosuppressive/immunomodulatory or anti malarial agent (See Inclusion Criteria #7).
- Any intraarticular steroid injection.
7.Has been treated with any B-cell depleting agents such as rituximab (or other CD20+ directed therapies), epratuzumab, anti-CD52 [alemtuzumab], or TACI Ig, within the last 12 months unless it is determined that the B cell counts have normalized prior to their screening visit (eg, B cell counts are at least as high as the patient’s last value prior to receiving the B cell depleting agent). Subjects that have been treated with TACI Ig must have also normalized their plasma cells and serum immunoglobulin levels (returned to pre treatment levels).
8.Has been treated with belimumab or any anti-Blyss (or anti BAFF) agent within the past 180 days.
9.Have severe lupus kidney disease (defined by proteinuria ?6 g/24 hour or equivalent using spot urine protein to creatinine ratio, or serum creatinine ?2.0 mg/dL), or have active nephritis (eg, BILAG A renal disease), or have required hemodialysis or high-dose corticosteroid (>100 mg/day prednisone or equivalent) within 90 days of Day 1.
10.Have active central nervous system (CNS) lupus (eg, BILAG A neurological disease and/or active, poorly controlled seizure disorder, acute confusional state, myelitis, stroke or stroke syndrome, cerebellar ataxia or dementia related to SLE, psychosis, organic brain syndrome, cerebrovascular accident [CVA], cerebritis or CNS vasculitis) requiring therapeutic intervention within 60 days of Day 1. Patients with manageable chorea are not excluded as long as they meet all other qualifying criteria for the study.
11.Have a history of a major organ transplant (eg, heart, lung, kidney, liver) or hematopoietic stem cell/marrow transplant.
12.Any major illness/condition or evidence of an unstable condition (eg, renal, hepatic, hematologic, gastrointestinal, endocrine, pulmonary, immunologic disorder, or infectious illness) tha
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional Study
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The proportion of subjects achieving the SLE Responder Index; 4 point reduction in the SLEDAI-2K, and No new BILAG A organ domain or 2 new BILAG B organ domain, and No worsening (<0.3) in PhGA score.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Proportion of patients achieving SLE Responder Index at all scheduled timepoints except Week 24.