Adalimumab in Adult Japanese Subjects With Rheumatoid Arthritis

This study has been completed.

First Received: October 7, 2005 Last Updated: January 30, 2009 History of Changes

Sponsor:	Abbott
Collaborators:	Abbott Japan Co.,Ltd Eisai Limited
Information provided by:	Abbott
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00235833

Purpose

The purpose of the study is to assess the long-term safety and tolerability of repeated administration of adalimumab in adult Japanese subjects with rheumatoid arthritis.

Condition	Intervention	Phase
Rheumatoid Arthritis	Biological: adalimumab	Phase II

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Treatment, Non-Randomized, Open Label, Uncontrolled, Single Group Assignment, Safety Study
Official Title:	Long-Term Continuously Repeated Dose Study of Adalimumab (D2E7) in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis

Resource links provided by NLM:

MedlinePlus related topics: Rheumatoid Arthritis

Drug Information available for: Adalimumab

U.S. FDA Resources

Further study details as provided by Abbott:

Primary Outcome Measures:

A comparison of adverse events [ Time Frame: Every 12 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]

Secondary Outcome Measures:

ACR 20/50/70 [ Time Frame: Every 12 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Patient reported outcomes [ Time Frame: Every 12 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Physician Global Assessment [ Time Frame: Every 12 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Enrollment:	25
Study Start Date:	June 2003
Primary Completion Date:	November 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)

Arms	Assigned Interventions
Adalimumab 40 mg eow: Experimental	Biological: adalimumab 40 mg eow, sc

Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:	20 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	No

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Participation in the prior adalimumab study
Body weight less than 100 kg.
Females must be postmenopausal for at least 1 year, surgically sterile, or practicing birth control throughout the study and for 90 days after study completion.

Exclusion Criteria:

A subject who experienced any of the following during the prior adalimumab sc dosing study:
- Advanced or poorly controlled diabetes
- Any poorly controlled medical condition
- Intra-articular, intramuscular or iv administration of corticosteroids
- Joint surgery.
A subject who has been prescribed excluded medications during previous adalimumab study.
History of clinically significant drug or alcohol abuse, intravenous (iv) drug abuse, active infection with listeria or tuberculosis (TB), lymphoma, leukemia, or any malignancy with the exception of successfully treated non- metastatic basal cell carcinoma of the skin.
A subject who experienced chronic or active infection or any major episode of infection requiring hospitalization or treatment with intravenous (iv) antibiotics within 30 days of entry into study or chronic use of oral antibiotics within 14 days of entry into study.
Preexisting or recent onset of central nervous system (CNS) demyelinating disorders.

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00235833

Locations

Japan, Metropolis

Tokyo, Metropolis, Japan
Japan, Prefecture

Ibaraki, Prefecture, Japan

Saitama, Prefecture, Japan

Nagasaki, Prefecture, Japan

Hiroshima, Prefecture, Japan

Fukuoka, Prefecture, Japan

Osaka, Prefecture, Japan

Sponsors and Collaborators

Abbott

Abbott Japan Co.,Ltd

Eisai Limited

Investigators

Study Director:

Shigeki Hashimoto, Ph.D.

Abbott

More Information

No publications provided

Responsible Party:	Abbott ( Eiichi Makino )
Study ID Numbers:	M02-564
Study First Received:	October 7, 2005
Last Updated:	January 30, 2009
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00235833 History of Changes
Health Authority:	Japan: Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare

Keywords provided by Abbott:

Rheumatoid Arthritis

Additional relevant MeSH terms:

Anti-Inflammatory Agents
Autoimmune Diseases
Immune System Diseases
Joint Diseases
Arthritis, Rheumatoid
Rheumatic Diseases
Adalimumab

Pharmacologic Actions
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Arthritis
Therapeutic Uses
Connective Tissue Diseases
Antirheumatic Agents

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on November 27, 2009