Tezosentan in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Idorsia Pharmaceuticals

Status and phase: Terminated; Phase 2

Conditions: Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Treatments: Drug: Tezosentan

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT01077297

AC-051-206

Details and patient eligibility

About

Multicenter, Open-label, Non-comparative, Proof-of-concept, Phase 2a Study to Evaluate the Effect of a Single Infusion of Tezosentan on Pulmonary Vascular Resistance in Patients With Stable, Chronic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, Currently Not Treated With Endothelin Receptor Antagonists, Phosphodiesterase-5 Inhibitors or Prostacyclines

Enrollment: 3 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Signed informed consent

2. Male and female patients 18 years of age or older

3. Patients with PAH according to one of the following subgroups of the Venice Classification Group 1:

   • Idiopathic (iPAH), or
   • Familial/heritable (FPAH), or
   • Associated (APAH) with collagen vascular disease

4. Modified NYHA functional class II-III

5. Documented hemodynamic diagnosis of PAH by right heart catheterization at Baseline:

   • Resting mean pulmonary arterial pressure (mPAP) ≥ 25 mmHg and
   • Resting mean PVR ≥ 240 dyn•s•cm-5 and
   • Pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP) ≤ 15 mmHg

Exclusion criteria

1. Patients with PAH in Venice Classification Groups 2-5, and PAH Group 1 subgroups not covered by inclusion criterion no. 3
2. Hypotensive patients (systemic systolic blood pressure < 100 mmHg)
3. Patients with body weight < 50 kg (110 lbs)
4. Patients with moderate or severe hepatic impairment (Child-Pugh B and C)
5. Patients with clinically significant chronic renal insufficiency (serum creatinine > 2.5mg/dL / 221µmol/L)
6. Patients who have received any endothelin receptor antagonist (ERA) and/or any phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE-5) inhibitor within 28 days of Baseline
7. Patients who have received prostacyclin (epoprostenol) or prostacyclin analogs (e.g., treprostinil, iloprost) within 28 days of Baseline
8. Patients who have received any investigational drugs within 28 days of Baseline
9. Patients who have received cyclosporine A or tacrolimus within 28 days of Baseline
10. Psychotic, addictive or other disorder limiting the ability to provide informed consent or to comply with the study
11. Life expectancy less than 12 months
12. Females who are lactating or pregnant or females who are not using a reliable method of birth control (failure rate less than 1% per year) during the study and for at least one month after study drug intake
13. Known hypersensitivity to any of the excipients of the drug formulation
14. Patients with positive response to vasoreactivity test

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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3 participants in 1 patient group

Tezosentan

Experimental group

Treatment:

Drug: Tezosentan