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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 19 February 2015
Main ID:  NCT00091715
Date of registration: 16/09/2004
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Actelion
Public title: Efficacy and Safety of Oral Bosentan in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Class II
Scientific title: A Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Multicenter Study to Assess the Efficacy, Safety, and Tolerability of Bosentan in Patients With Mildly Symptomatic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH)
Date of first enrolment: April 2004
Target sample size: 185
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00091715
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Phase:  Phase 3
Countries of recruitment
Australia Austria Belgium Canada China Czech Republic France Germany
Italy Netherlands Spain Switzerland United Kingdom United States
Contacts
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- PAH NYHA Class II

- Significant elevation of mean pulmonary arterial pressure

- Significant elevation of pulmonary vascular resistance at rest

- Limited 6-minute walk distance

Exclusion Criteria:

- PAH secondary to portal hypertension, complex congenital heart disease or reverse
shunt

- Restrictive or obstructive lung disease

- Significant vasoreactivity

- Treatments for PAH (within 4 weeks of randomization)



Age minimum: 12 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Pulmonary Hypertension
Intervention(s)
Drug: bosentan
Drug: placebo
Primary Outcome(s)
exercise capacity [Time Frame: Baseline to end of study]
cardiac hemodynamics [Time Frame: Baseline to end of study]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
AC-052-364
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Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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