A Clinical Study to Investigate the Long-term Safety of the Drug Macitentan in Patients With Pulmonary Hypertension Who Were Previously Treated With Macitentan in Clinical Studies.
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03422328 |
Recruitment Status :
Enrolling by invitation
First Posted : February 5, 2018
Last Update Posted : January 14, 2021
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension | Drug: macitentan | Phase 3 |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Estimated Enrollment : | 176 participants |
Allocation: | N/A |
Intervention Model: | Single Group Assignment |
Intervention Model Description: | The study is designed as an open-label, single-arm, multicenter trial in which all participants roll over from a "parent study" in order to continue their dose of macitentan 10 mg once every day as already received in the "parent study". |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | mUlticenter, Single-arM, Open-laBel, Long-teRm Safety Study With macitEntan in Patients With puLmonary Arterial Hypertension previousLy Treated With mAcitentan in Clinical Studies |
Actual Study Start Date : | April 5, 2018 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date : | May 15, 2024 |
Estimated Study Completion Date : | May 15, 2024 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Open-label macitentan 10 mg
10 mg macitentan film coated tablet, administered orally once daily
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Drug: macitentan
macitentan 10 mg, film-coated tablet, oral use |
- Incident Rate of Treatment-emergent Adverse Event [ Time Frame: From Day 1 to End of study (EoS) visit (an average of 3 years) ]An AE is any untoward medical occurrence in a clinical study participant administered a pharmaceutical (investigational or non-investigational) product. An AE does not necessarily have a causal relationship with the study intervention. An AE can therefore be any unfavorable and unintended sign (including an abnormal finding), symptom, or disease temporally associated with the use of a medicinal (investigational or non-investigational) product, whether or not related to that medicinal (investigational or non-investigational) product. A treatment-emergent AE is any AE temporally associated with the use of study treatment.
- Incident rate of treatment-emergent adverse events (AEs) leading to premature discontinuation of study treatment [ Time Frame: From Day 1 to EoS visit (an average of 3 years) ]Any AE will be recorded that 1) is (temporally) associated with the use of study treatment whether or not considered by the investigator as related to study treatment and 2) leads to premature discontinuation of study medication.
- Incident rate of treatment-emergent serious adverse events (SAEs) [ Time Frame: From Day 1 to EoS visit (an average of 3 years) ]Any SAE as defined by the ICH guidelines will be recorded. Any hepatic AE that leads to discontinuation of study treatment will be defined as SAE.
- Number of pregnancies with maternal exposure to macitentan [ Time Frame: From Day 1 to EoS visit (an average of 3 years) ]Pregnancies with maternal exposure to macitentan will be recorded.
- Change of WHO functional class to each scheduled time point [ Time Frame: From Day 1 to EoT visit (an average of 3 years) ]The proportion of patients who worsened, remain unchanged or improved from baseline to each scheduled time-point in WHO function will be calculated, where baseline is the initial baseline from the "parent study" (or the double-blind core study preceding the "parent study").
- Assessment of survival status at End-of-Study (EoS) [ Time Frame: From Day 1 to EoS visit (an average of 3 years) ]Time to death of all causes up to EoS from the date of randomization or enrollment in the "parent study" (or the double-blind core study preceding the "parent study") will be estimated.

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Ages Eligible for Study: | Child, Adult, Older Adult |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Signed informed consent to take part in the study before any study mandated procedure.
- Participants from one of the parent studies and: a) the sponsor has decided to terminate the parent study in that country and b) the participant has completed the end of treatment (EOT) Visit of the parent study
- Women of childbearing potential are able to take part in the study if the following applies: a) Urine pregnancy test is negative at Enrollment; b) Agreement to perform monthly urine or serum pregnancy tests during the study and up to at least 30 days after the study treatment discontinuation; and c) Agreement to adhere to the planned contraception scheme from Enrollment up to at least 30 days after study treatment discontinuation
Exclusion Criteria:
- Hemoglobin less than 80 gram per liter (g/L)
- Serum Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and/or alanine aminotransferases (ALT) more than three times the upper limit of normal range
- Known and documented history of severe hepatic impairment that is Child-Pugh Class C.
- Pregnant, planning to become pregnant, or breastfeeding
- Known hypersensitivity to macitentan, its excipients, or drugs of the same class
- Planned or current treatment with another investigational treatment up to 3 months prior to Enrollment
- Any known factor or disease that might interfere with treatment compliance, study conduct, or interpretation of the results, such as drug or alcohol dependence or psychiatric disease
- Treatment with a strong CYP3A4 inhibitor (e.g., ketoconazole, itraconazole, voriconazole, clarithromycin, telithromycin, nefazodone, ritonavir, and saquinavir)

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT03422328

Study Director: | Thomas Pfister, PhD | Actelion |
Responsible Party: | Actelion |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT03422328 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
AC-055-314 2017-003934-10 ( EudraCT Number ) |
First Posted: | February 5, 2018 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | January 14, 2021 |
Last Verified: | January 2021 |
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: | No |
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: | No |
macitentan long-term safety open-label single-arm |
Hypertension, Pulmonary Familial Primary Pulmonary Hypertension Hypertension Vascular Diseases Cardiovascular Diseases Lung Diseases |
Respiratory Tract Diseases Macitentan Endothelin A Receptor Antagonists Endothelin Receptor Antagonists Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Endothelin B Receptor Antagonists |