Safety and Efficacy Study of Fingolimod in Taiwanese Adults (≥ 20years) With Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Fingolimod.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Multiple Sclerosis. Basic parameters: 20 years — 100 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Taiwan
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
A 12-month, Prospective, Multi-center Post-authorization Commitment (PAC) Study Monitoring Safety in Adult Patients With Relapsing-remitting Multiple Sclerosis Newly Initiated on Gilenya (Fingolimod) in Taiwan (SPRING)
Overview
The purpose of the study is to describe the safety profile of fingolimod in the Taiwanese multiple sclerosis population. This study aims to collect the safety data in patients newly initiated on fingolimod for one year.
Detailed description
This is a 12-month, prospective, interventional, multi-center study to monitor safety in adult patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) in Taiwan who based on local practice are newly starting fingolimod at the time of study entry.
Thirty-four patients will be included in this study in line with the study inclusion and exclusion criteria. After entering this study, the participants will continue to be treated for MS based on local practice. The patient will be taking fingolimod 0.5mg per day. Protocol-mandated procedures and visits for safety data collection will be conducted in addition to the required examinations according to the clinical practice.
If a patient experienced an interruption of fingolimod treatment that requires a re-evaluation of FDO, the patient will be discontinued from the study. If the treatment interruption does not require a FDO when re-starting fingolimod, the patient can continue to participate in this study.
Interventions
- Drug Fingolimod
Fingolimod 0.5 mg QD, oral
Primary outcome measures
- Number of Adverse Events of Special Interest(AESI) [Time frame: First Dose Observation on the first day of taking findolimod]
- Number of Adverse Events of Special Interest (AESI) [Time frame: Baseline up to 12 months]
Secondary outcome measures (3)
- Annualized relapse reate (ARR) [Time frame: Baseline up to 12 months]
- Change from baseline of Pulse (beats/min) [Time frame: Baseline up to 12 months]
- Change from baseline of blood pressure (mmHg) [Time frame: Baseline up to 12 months]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
-Patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis that are fingolimod treatment naive at the time of study entry and are newly starting fingolimod based on physician judgement and according to Taiwan's fingolimod package insert (version TWI-090420)
Exclusion criteria
- Patients with the diagnosis of neuromyelitis optica.
- Patients who are being treated with any investigational drug at the time of study entry.
- In the last 6 months experienced myocardial infarction, unstable angina, stroke, transient ischemic attack, decompensated heart failure requiring hospitalization or Class III/IV heart failure
- A history or presence of Mobitz Type II second-degree or third-degree atrioventricular block or sick sinus syndrome, unless patient has a functioning pacemaker
- A baseline QTc interval ≥ 500 msec
- Cardiac arrhythmias requiring anti-arrhythmic treatment with Class Ia or Class III anti-arrhythmic drugs
- Patient with known immune deficiency, increased risk of opportunistic infection, severe active infection or chronic active infection.
- Patients with severe active malignancies, except for basal cell epithelioma
- Patients with severe hepatic insufficiency
- Pregnant or nursing (lactating) women or women of childbearing potential unless on contraception
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- N/A
- Model
- Single group
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
Taiwan · 6 centers
- Novartis Investigative Site — Kaohsiung City
- Novartis Investigative Site — Taichung
- Novartis Investigative Site — Tainan
- Novartis Investigative Site — Taipei
- Novartis Investigative Site — Taipei
- Novartis Investigative Site — Taoyuan
Identifiers
NCT: NCT04480853 · CFTY720DTW03