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A Placebo-controlled Study for SPM 962 in Early Parkinson's Disease Patients

This study has been completed.
Sponsor:
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT00537485
First received: September 27, 2007
Last updated: July 5, 2012
Last verified: July 2012
History of Changes
  Purpose

To investigate superiority of SPM 962 over placebo in early Parkinson's disease patients in a multi-center, placebo-controlled, double-blind study following once-daily multiple transdermal doses of SPM 962 within a range of 4.5 to 36.0 mg (12-week dose titration/maintenance period)


Condition Intervention Phase
Early Parkinson's Disease
 Drug: SPM 962
Drug: placebo
 Phase 2
Phase 3

Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
Official Title: A Placebo-controlled Study for SPM 962 in Early Parkinson's Disease Patients With Non-concomitant Treatment of L-dopa

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U.S. FDA Resources

Further study details as provided by Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.:

Primary Outcome Measures:
  • Change from baseline to the end of maintenance period in total of each sum score of UPDRS Part 2 and Part 3 [ Time Frame: end of maintenance period ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]

Secondary Outcome Measures:
  • 1.UPDRS Part 2 sum score 2.UPDRS Part 3 sum score 3.UPDRS Part 1 sum score 4.UPDRS Part 4 sum score 5.Total of each sum score of UPDRS Part 1, 2, 3, and 4 6.Hoehn and Yahr stage [ Time Frame: every two weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]

Estimated Enrollment: 200
Study Start Date: September 2007
Study Completion Date: December 2009
Primary Completion Date: December 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Arms Assigned Interventions
Experimental: 1 Drug: SPM 962
transdermal application, 1 time per day
Placebo Comparator: 2 Drug: placebo
transdermal application, 1 time per day

  Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:   30 Years to 79 Years
Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Subject diagnosed as having Parkinson's disease in accordance with "Diagnostic Criteria established by the Research Committee of MHLW-specified Intractable Neurodegenerative Diseases (1995)"
  2. Subject is 30 years < > 80 years at the time of informed consent
  3. Hoehn & Yahr stage 1- 3
  4. Total of each sum score of UPDRS Part 2 and 3 is over 10 at screening test

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Subject has previously participated in a trial with SPM 962
  2. Subject is on L-dopa treatment for total of over 6 months at the time of informed consent
  3. Subject has psychiatric symptoms, e.g. confusion, hallucination, delusion, excitation, delirium, abnormal behavior at screening test and baseline
  4. Subject has orthostatic hypotension
  5. Subject has a history of epilepsy, convulsion and other
  6. Subject has a complication of serious cardiac disorder/arrhythmia or has the history
  7. Subject has arrhythmia and treated with class 1a anti-arrhythmic drugs (e.g. quinidine, procainamide etc.) or class 3 anti-arrhythmic drugs (e.g. amiodarone, sotalol etc.)
  8. Subject has serious ECG abnormal at screening i.e.; 1) Subject has more than 450 msec of QTc values both in two measurements at screening test 2) Subject has more than 470 msec for females and more than 450 msec for males of mean QTc values of two measurements at baseline
  9. Subject has congenital long QT syndrome
  10. Subject has serum potassium of less than 3.5 mEq/L at screening test.
  11. Subject has total bilirubin of 3.0 mg/dL and above or AST(GOT), ALT(GPT) greater than 2.5 times (or 100 IU/L and above) of the clinical laboratory's upper limit of the reference range at screening test
  12. Subject has 30 mg/dL and above of BUN or 2.0 mg/dL and above of serum creatinine at screening test
  13. Subject has a history of allergy to topical medicine, e.g. transdermal patch
  14. Subject is pregnant, nursing, or is child bearing potential while the trial
  15. Subject is receiving therapy with prohibited drug specified in the study protocol
  16. Subject has a history of pallidotomy, thalamotomy, deep brain stimulation or fetal tissue transplant
  17. Subject has dementia
  18. Subject is unable to give consent
  19. Subject is participating in another trial of an investigational drug or done so within 12 weeks prior to the initial treatment
  20. Investigator judges that subject is inappropriate as a study subject with other reasons
  Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00537485

Locations
Japan
Chubu region, Japan
Hokkaido region, Japan
Kanto region, Japan
Kinki region, Japan
Kyushu region, Japan
Tohoku region, Japan
Sponsors and Collaborators
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
Investigators
Study Director: Katsuhisa Saito New Product Evaluation and Development
  More Information

No publications provided

Responsible Party: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00537485     History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers: 243-07-001
Study First Received: September 27, 2007
Last Updated: July 5, 2012
Health Authority: Japan: Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare

Keywords provided by Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.:
SPM 962
rotigotine
Parkinson's disease
monotherapy

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Parkinson Disease
Parkinsonian Disorders
Basal Ganglia Diseases
Brain Diseases
 Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Movement Disorders
Neurodegenerative Diseases

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 23, 2013