Pregabalin Versus Placebo In The Treatment Of Neuropathic Pain Associated With HIV Neuropathy

This study has been terminated.
(See termination reason in detailed description.)
Sponsor:
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Pfizer
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT01049217
First received: January 13, 2010
Last updated: June 25, 2012
Last verified: June 2012
  Purpose

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of pregabalin compared to placebo in reducing neuropathic pain associated with HIV neuropathy.


Condition Intervention Phase
Neuropathy
Drug: pregabalin
Drug: placebo
Phase 3

Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
Official Title: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Parallel-Group, Multicenter Trial Of Pregabalin Versus Placebo In The Treatment Of Neuropathic Pain Associated With HIV Neuropathy (Pregabalin A0081244)

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Further study details as provided by Pfizer:

Primary Outcome Measures:
  • Endpoint mean pain score derived from subject's diary for daily average pain on an 11 point pain numeric rating scale (NRS-Average) [ Time Frame: Daily ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Secondary Outcome Measures:
  • Patient Global Impression of Change (PGIC) [ Time Frame: Week 16 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  • Neurological examination [ Time Frame: First Visit ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
  • Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI) Modules (depression, mania, substance abuse/dependence, and psychosis modules) • Sheehan-Suicidality Tracking Scale (SSTS); • Patient Health Questionnaire-8 [ Time Frame: First Visit ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
  • (PHQ-8); • Diagnostic Neuropathy Worksheet [ Time Frame: First Visit ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
  • Clinician Global Impression of Change (CGIC) [ Time Frame: Week 16 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  • Daily NRS Sleep Interference (NRS-Sleep) [ Time Frame: Daily ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  • Daily NRS Current Pain (NRS Current ) [ Time Frame: Daily ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  • Brief Pain Inventory-Short Form (BPI-sf) [ Time Frame: Monthly ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  • Neuropathic Pain Symptom Inventory (NPSI) [ Time Frame: Week 1 and Week 16 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  • Actigraphy Functional/Sleep Assessment [ Time Frame: Daily ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  • Medical Outcomes Survey (MOS)-Sleep Scale [ Time Frame: Week 1 and Week 16 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  • Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) [ Time Frame: Week 1 and Week 16 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  • SF-36 [ Time Frame: Week 1 and Week 16 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  • Adverse Event monitoring throughout the trial [ Time Frame: At all visits through Week 17 ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
  • Laboratory testing including hematology, chemistry, CD4 count and CD8 count, HIV plasma viral load, B12, VDRL, toxic screens drugs for drugs and alcohol, reflex TSH, urinalysis [ Time Frame: First visit and Week 17 ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
  • Serum pregnancy testing at screening urine pregnancy test (and as clinically indicated during study) [ Time Frame: First visit and Week 1 ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
  • Physical Examination and vital signs [ Time Frame: Week 1, Week 8, and Week 17 ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]

Enrollment: 391
Study Start Date: April 2010
Study Completion Date: May 2012
Primary Completion Date: May 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Arms Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Active drug Drug: pregabalin
Pregabalin 75 mg-300mg twice daily during the course of the study.
Placebo Comparator: Control Drug: placebo
Subjects may be assigned to placebo during this study. The study duration is approximately 19 weeks.

Detailed Description:

Based on DMC interim efficacy analysis results indicating a low probability for success the study was terminated on April 2, 2012; the termination was unrelated to any safety findings that could impact patient health.

  Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Men and women, ages of 18 or greater
  • Documented evidence of HIV-1 infection
  • Documented diagnosis of HIV-associated Distal Symmetrical Polyneuropathy (DSP) with subjective sensory symptom of pain
  • Pain starts in the feet

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Subject has untreated vitamin B12 deficiency (serum B12 level <200 pg/ml) or if treated B12 deficiency -treatment is less than 6 months of B12 supplementation (injection or intranasal B12) prior to screening
  • Diabetes mellitus requiring regular medical treatment (other than diet and exercise) or HbA1C >6.9
  • Subjects with peripheral neuropathic pain that is not associated with HIV infection; including subjects with conditions such as: Post Herpetic Neuralgia (PHN), Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy (DPN), familial neuropathies; compression related neuropathy, radicular pain, other infection related neuropathies (eg, leprosy); neuropathy related to: metabolic abnormalities; nutritional factors; vascular insults; inflammation; autoimmune disease; and malignancy
  Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01049217

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Locations
United States, Arizona
Southwest Center for HIV/AIDS
Phoenix, Arizona, United States, 85006
SW Center for HIV/AIDS
Phoenix, Arizona, United States, 85006
Arizona Research Center
Phoenix, Arizona, United States, 85023
United States, California
Anthony Mills, MD, Inc.
Los Angeles, California, United States, 90069
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA c/o NNAB
Los Angeles, California, United States, 90095
AIDS Research Alliance of America
Los Angeles, California, United States, 90015
Providence Clinical Research
North Hollywood, California, United States, 91606
Desert Medical Group, Inc. dba Desert Oasis Healthcare Medical Group
Palm Springs, California, United States, 92262
University of California San Diego
San Diego, California, United States, 92103
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, California, United States, 94305
United States, Florida
Neuroscience Consultants, LLC.
Aventura, Florida, United States, 33180
South Florida Medical Research
Aventura, Florida, United States, 33180
The Kinder Medical Group
Miami, Florida, United States, 33133
Wohlfeiler, Piperato & Associates, LLC
Miami Beach, Florida, United States, 33139
Meridien Research
Tampa, Florida, United States, 33606
United States, Georgia
Midtown Neurology, PC
Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30312
AIDS Research Consortium of Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30308
Neurology Specialists of Decatur Research Center
Decatur, Georgia, United States, 30033
United States, Illinois
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611
United States, New York
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, New York, United States, 10029
United States, Ohio
University of Toledo Medical Center
Toledo, Ohio, United States, 43614
University of Toledo
Toledo, Ohio, United States, 43614
United States, Texas
University of Texas Physicians
Bellaire, Texas, United States, 77401
Amelia Court HIV Research Clinic
Dallas, Texas, United States, 75235
The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
Colombia
Asistencia Cientifica de Alta Complejidad
Bogota, Cundinamarca, Colombia, 0000
Centro Instituto de Investigaciones Fundación Universitaria Sanitas
Bogota, Cundinamarca, Colombia
Riesgo de Fractura S.A
Bogotá, Cundinamarca, Colombia, 0000
Instituto Colombiano para el Avance de la Medicina- Santander S.A.S. - ICAMEDIC Santander S.A.S
Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia, 0000
Dominican Republic
Instituto Dominicano de Estudios Virológicos - IDEV
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
India
Surakshaka Multispeciality Hospital
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, 500 072
Mahavir Hospital and Research Centre
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, 500 004
Infectious Disease Clinic
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, 380 009
Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, 400026
Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital and Research Centre
Pune, Maharashtra, India, 411 004
YR Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, 600 113
Peru
Hospital Nacional Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen
Lima, Peru, L 13
Hospital Nacional Dos de Mayo
Lima, Peru, L 01
Poland
Katedra Chorob Zakaznych i Hepatologii UMK w Toruniu CM w Bydgoszczy
Bydgoszcz, Poland, 85-030
Oddzial Diagnostyki i Terapii AIDS
Chorzow, Poland, 41-500
Puerto Rico
Ponce School of Medicine-CAIMED Center
Ponce, Puerto Rico, 00716
Ponce School of Medicine - Practice Group
Ponce, Puerto Rico, 00732-7004
Puerto Rico Clinical and Translational Research Consortium
Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, 00935
South Africa
Border Diabetic Centre
East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa, 5200
MediSynergy
Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa, 6065
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Clinical Research Unit, University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa, 0002
Department of Neurology
Tygerberg, South Africa, 7505
Thailand
South East Asia Research Collaboration with Hawaii
Bangkok, Thailand, 10330
Neurology unit, Department of Medicine,
Bangkok, Thailand, 10400
Sponsors and Collaborators
Pfizer
Investigators
Study Director: Pfizer CT.gov Call Center Pfizer
  More Information

Additional Information:
No publications provided

Responsible Party: Pfizer
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01049217     History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers: A0081244
Study First Received: January 13, 2010
Last Updated: June 25, 2012
Health Authority: United States: Food and Drug Administration

Keywords provided by Pfizer:
neuropathy
pain
HIV-1
HIV Infections

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Neuralgia
Demyelinating Diseases
Polyneuropathies
Nerve Compression Syndromes
Neurologic Manifestations
Neurotoxicity Syndromes
Pain
Nervous System Diseases
Peripheral Nervous System Diseases
Neuromuscular Diseases
Signs and Symptoms
Poisoning
Substance-Related Disorders
Pregabalin
Analgesics
Sensory System Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Pharmacologic Actions
Central Nervous System Agents
Therapeutic Uses
Anticonvulsants

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