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Register: JPRN
Last refreshed on: 17 October 2023
Main ID:  JPRN-UMIN000025176
Date of registration: 15/12/2016
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: Hamamatsu University School of Medicine
Public title: Efficacy, tolerability, and safety of transition from beraprost to selexipag in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Scientific title: Efficacy, tolerability, and safety of transition from beraprost to selexipag in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. - Efficacy, tolerability, and safety of transition from beraprost to selexipag
Date of first enrolment: 2017/01/01
Target sample size: 33
Recruitment status: Complete: follow-up complete
URL:  https://center6.umin.ac.jp/cgi-open-bin/ctr_e/ctr_view.cgi?recptno=R000028960
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Single arm Non-randomized  
Phase:  Not selected
Countries of recruitment
Japan
Contacts
Name: Keiichi    ODAGIRI
Address:  1-20-1, Handayama, Higashi-ku, Hamamatsu, Japan 431-3129 Japan
Telephone: 053-435-2850
Email: kodagiri@hama-med.ac.jp
Affiliation:  Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Center for Clinical Research/ Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Name: Keiichi    ODAGIRI
Address:  1-20-1, Handayama, Higashi-ku, Hamamatsu, Japan Japan
Telephone: 053-435-2850
Email: kodagiri@hama-med.ac.jp
Affiliation:  Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Center for Clinical Research/ Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria:
Exclusion criteria: 1. Patients who added newly concomitant drugs within last 3 months 2. Patients who is expected to intolerable selexipag 3. Patients who had clinically unstable right heart failure within the last 3 months

Age minimum: 16years-old
Age maximum: Not applicable
Gender: Male and Female
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Pulmonary arterial hypertension
Intervention(s)
Medicine transition from beraprost to selexipag In accordance with the Japanese package insert (http://www.info.pmda.go.jp/go/pack/2190037F1020_1_02/), selexipag is initiated at a dose of 0.2mg twice daily and is increased in twice-daily increments of 0.2mg until unmanageable adverse effects associated with prostacyclin use, such as headache or jaw pain, developed. The maximum dose allowed is 1.6mg twice daily.
Primary Outcome(s)
Pulmonary arterial resistance (PVR) at week 24 from baseline
Secondary Outcome(s)
Other variables at week 24 from baseline (1) Right heart catheterization (PCWP, PAP, RVP, CO/CI) (2) NT-proBNP (3) WHO functional class
Secondary ID(s)
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Hamamatsu University School of Medicine
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Status: YES
Approval date: 13/12/2016
Contact:
rinri@hama-med.ac.jp
The Ethics Committee of Hamamatsu University School of Medicine
053-435-2111
rinri@hama-med.ac.jp
Results
Results available: Yes
Date Posted:
Date Completed: 31/03/2022
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