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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 19 February 2015
Main ID:  NCT00415519
Date of registration: 22/12/2006
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation
Public title: Efficacy and Safety Study of MCI-186 for Treatment of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Who Met Severity Classification III
Scientific title: An Exploratory Study of MCI-186 for Treatment of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Severity Classification III) in Double-Blind, Parallel-Group, Placebo-Controlled Manner
Date of first enrolment: December 2006
Target sample size: 25
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00415519
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
Japan
Contacts
Name:     Koji Abe, professor
Address: 
Telephone:
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Affiliation:  Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Okayama University
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Patients who are defined as "definite ALS," "probable ALS" or
"probable-laboratory-supported ALS," met diagnostic criteria revised EL Escorial for
Airlie House.

- Patients who cannot take at least one action of eating a meal, excreting, or moving
with oneself alone, and need assistance in everyday life.

- Patients whose progress of the condition during 12 weeks before administration meet
other requirements.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patients judged to be inadequate to participate in this study by their physician,
because those patients' general condition deteriorated to the point that they need to
be hospitalized for severe hepatic disease, sever heart disease, sever renal disease
and so on, or they need to be administered antibiotics to infection.

- Patients who complain the difficulty in breathing caused by deteriorating the
respiratory function.

- Patients with such complications as Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, dementia,
renal failure, or other severe complication, and patients who have the anamnesis of
hypersensitivity to edaravone.

- Pregnant, lactating, and probably pregnant patients, and patients who want to become
pregnant, and patients who can not agree to contraception.

- Patients who have been administered other investigational products within 12 weeks
before consent, or who are participating in other clinical trials at present.

- In addition to the above exclusion criteria, patients judged to be inadequate to
participate in this study by their physician.



Age minimum: 20 Years
Age maximum: 75 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Intervention(s)
Drug: Placebo of MCI-186
Drug: MCI-186
Primary Outcome(s)
Revised ALS functional rating scale (ALSFRS-R) scores [Time Frame: 24 weeks]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Period until death or a certain state (i.e., inability to walk alone, failure of arm function, tracheostomy, respirator installation, tubal feeding replenishment), %FVC, etc. [Time Frame: 24 weeks]
Adverse events, adverse drug reactions, laboratory test and sensory examinations [Time Frame: 24 weeks]
Secondary ID(s)
MCI186-18
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
Date Posted:
Date Completed:
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