Efficacy and Safety Study of Triptorelin 3-Month Formulation in Chinese Children With Central Precocious Puberty.

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Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Central Precocious Puberty

Treatments: Drug: Triptorelin pamoate 15mg

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT04736602

D-CN-52014-243

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this research was to confirm the effectiveness and safety of the study drug, Triptorelin pamoate 15mg 3-month formulation, in a Chinese population of Central Precocious Puberty (CPP) children.

Enrollment: 32 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 10 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Onset of development of secondary sex characteristics before 8 and 9 years in girls and boys, respectively breast development in girls or testicular enlargement in boys according to the Tanner method: Stage II
• Pubertal response of LH to GnRH stimulation test (stimulated peak LH ≥5 IU/L)
• Difference between bone age (BA) (according to Greulich and Pyle method) and chronological age (CA) >1 year
• Girls with Tanner staging ≥2 for breast development and enlarged uterine length and several follicles with diameter >4 mm in the ovary at Screening visit; boys who have testicular volume ≥4 mL at Screening visit
• Age < 9 years old for girls and < 10 years old for boys at initiation of triptorelin treatment
• Weight at least 20 kg
• Subjects will qualify for the extension phase if they sign the corresponding specific consent form, are still benefiting from treatment at the end the primary study and have not experienced any unacceptable safety issues.

Exclusion criteria

• Gonadotropin-independent (peripheral) precocious puberty: extra pituitary secretion of gonadotropins or gonadotropin-independent gonadal or adrenal sex steroid secretion
• Non-progressing isolated premature thelarche
• Presence of an unstable intracranial tumour or an intracranial tumour requiring neurosurgery or cerebral irradiation. Participants with hamartomas not requiring surgery are eligible
• Evidence of renal (creatinine >1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN)) or hepatic impairment (bilirubin >1.5 x ULN or alanine aminotransferase (ALT)/aspartate transaminase (AST) >3 x ULN)
• Any other condition or chronic illness or treatment possibly interfering with growth or other study endpoints (e.g. chronic steroid use except topical steroids, renal failure, diabetes, moderate to severe scoliosis)
• Prior or current therapy with a GnRH agonist (GnRHa), medroxyprogesterone acetate, growth hormone or insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1)
• Diagnosis of short stature, i.e. >2.25 standard deviation (SD) below the mean height for age
• Major medical or psychiatric illness that could interfere with study visits
• Known hypersensitivity to any of the test materials or related compounds
• Use of anticoagulants (heparin and coumarin derivatives) within the 2 weeks prior to the Screening visit.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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32 participants in 1 patient group

Triptorelin Pamoate 15mg for injection

Experimental group

Description:

Triptorelin was injected at day 1 and month 3. If participants were willing to enter the extension phase, two additional Triptorelin injections were given at month 6 and month 9.

Treatment:

Drug: Triptorelin pamoate 15mg