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Safety and Efficacy of Tegaserod in Opioid-induced Constipation in Patients With Non-cancer Pain.

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Status and phase

Terminated
Phase 3

Conditions

Opioid-induced Constipation

Treatments

Drug: Tegaserod

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Industry

Identifiers

NCT00414024
CHTF919N2302

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will evaluate the safety and efficacy of Tegaserod in opioid-induced constipation in patients with non-cancer pain.

Patients who enter this study PRIOR to the core study (CHTF919N2201) interim analysis receive the treatment as follows:

Patients will be randomly assigned to receive open label tegaserod 6 mg b.i.d. or tegaserod 12 mg o.d. using an allocation ratio of 1:1.

Patients who enter this study AFTER the core study interim analysis receive the treatment as follows:

Patients will be assigned to receive the selected tegaserod dose regimen (as determined by the core study interim analysis) in an open label fashion.

Enrollment

11 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Male and female outpatients 18 years of age or older.
  • Patients with chronic non-cancer pain that necessitates the use of non- injectable opioid analgesics.
  • Chronic pain which has been present for a minimum of 3 months which needs the chronic use of opioids for pain relief.
  • Constipation, according to the investigator's clinical judgment, that is resulting from opioid use for non-cancer chronic pain. Opioid-induced Constipation (OIC) is defined as follows:

less than 3 spontaneous bowel movements per week and at least one of the following on at least 25% of occasions:

  1. Hard or very hard stools
  2. sensation of incomplete evacuation
  3. straining while having a bowel movement

Exclusion criteria

    1. Who are receiving opioids for abdominal pain or connective tissue disorders.
  • Planned discontinuation of opioids during the study
  • Who underwent major surgery within 3 months prior to screening.
  • With a history of prior chronic constipation (CC) that was present for more than three months and that was not related to opioid use.
  • With a current diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) constipation predominant or alternators.
  • With a previous use of tegaserod within 3 months prior to baseline.

Other protocol-defined inclusion/exclusion criteria may apply

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Non-Randomized

Interventional model

Single Group Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

Trial contacts and locations

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