Use of Ultrase® MT12 in Young Cystic Fibrosis Children (CF)

Completed · Phase 3

Conditions studied: Cystic Fibrosis, Pancreatic Insufficiency

In brief

Multicenter, explorative, phase IIIb, open-label study to assess the efficacy and safety of Ultrase® MT12, in the control of steatorrhea and clinical signs and symptoms of malabsorption in CF children with pancreatic insufficiency (PI). This study is sponsored by Aptalis Pharma (formerly Axcan).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00880100

Run by

Forest Laboratories

People needed

49

Starts

2009-04-01

Expected to finish

2009-11-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-03-16

Who can join

Age: 2 and older, up to 6. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Male or female patients aged 2 to 6 years inclusively
• Patients with current diagnosis of CF based on one or more typical clinical features of CF or a sibling with CF or a positive newborn screening and at least either with sweat chloride test greater than or equal to 60 millimoles/liter (mmol/L) by quantitative pilocarpine iontophoresis on two separate occasions or two identifiable CF-causing mutations
• Patients with presence of PI as demonstrated by fecal elastase (FE-1) less than 100 microgram/gram (mcg/g) of stools (performed by ScheBo test) and requiring pancreatic enzyme supplementation
• Patients who are able to eat a high-fat diet calculated at a value between 2g to 4g fat/kg of body weight per day during the whole study and having a current adequate nutritional status based on the body mass index (BMI) greater than or equal to fifth percentile
• Patients receiving current treatment of PI with pancreatic enzymes
• The parent or legal guardian signed informed consent form (ICF) and is mentally able to understand and comply with the study procedures

You may not qualify if…

• Patients currently receiving or received an Ultrase® MT product (MT12, MT18, MT20) for PI in the last 30 days
• Patients having known contraindication, sensitivity or hypersensitivity to Ultrase® or to any porcine protein
• Patients with presence of a medical condition known to increase fecal fat loss or that could compromise study results or the study patient safety
• Patients with current diagnosis or history of complete distal intestinal obstruction syndrome (DIOS) in the past 6 months or who had 2 or more episodes of incomplete DIOS in the past year
• Patients with use of any prohibited medication or product at study entry and during the course of the study
• Patients with chronic use of narcotics
• Patients with use of bowel stimulants and/or laxatives more than once a week
• Patients with presence of acute pancreatitis or exacerbation of chronic pancreatic disease
• Patients with presence of an acute infection that needed to be treated with oral or intravenous (IV) broad-spectrum antibiotics
• Patients having history of significant bowel resection; small bowel resection for meconium ileus at birth and appendectomy were accepted. Patients with Presence of dysmotility disorders
• Patients with presence of chronic or severe abdominal pain
• Patients unable to comply with diet requirement
• Patients receiving enteral tube feeding overnight at study entry or who will need to receive enteral tube feeding overnight during the course of the study
• Patients with history of or a current diagnosis of clinically significant portal hypertension
• Patients with presence of poorly controlled diabetes according to the Investigator's clinical judgment
• Patients having any condition or pre-study laboratory abnormality or history of any illness which, in the opinion of the Investigator, might have put the patient at risk, prevented the patient from completing the study, or otherwise affect the outcome of the study
• Patient with use of any investigational drug within 30 days prior to the date of signature of the ICF

Where it is running

• The Children's Hospital — Aurora, Colorado, United States
• University of Michigan Health System Cystic Fibrosis Center — Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
• Helen DeVos Children's Hospital-Spectrum Health Research Department — Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
• SUNY Upstate Medical University — Syracuse, New York, United States
• Duke University Medical Center — Durham, North Carolina, United States
• Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital - Cystic Fibrosis Center — Cleveland, Ohio, United States
• Children's Medical Center of Dayton — Dayton, Ohio, United States
• University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center — Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
• Respiratory Diseases of Children and Adolescents — Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
• Pennsylvania State University and the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center — Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States
• Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
• Sanford Children's Specialty Clinic — Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
• University of Utah — Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
• Virginia Commonwealth University — Richmond, Virginia, United States
• UW Hospital and Clinics — Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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