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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT02612857
Date of registration: 18/11/2015
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Idera Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Public title: Trial of IMO-8400 in Adult Patients With Dermatomyositis 8400-211
Scientific title: A Phase 2, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of IMO-8400 in Patients With Dermatomyositis
Date of first enrolment: November 2015
Target sample size: 30
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02612857
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: Triple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator).  
Phase:  Phase 2
Countries of recruitment
Hungary United Kingdom United States
Contacts
Name:     Joanna Horobin, MD
Address: 
Telephone:
Email:
Affiliation:  Idera Pharmaceuticals
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Has definite or probable DM based on the criteria of Bohan and Peter

- Has a Cutaneous Dermatomyositis Disease Area and Severity Index (CDASI)-Activity score
=15

- Patients with muscle weakness are eligible; however having muscle weakness is not
mandatory.

- Study participants must have a diagnostic evaluation for cancer if the diagnosis of DM
was within 2 years prior to the Screening Visit

Exclusion Criteria:

- Has ongoing severe dysphagia (e.g., requires a feeding tube) for the 3 months prior to
Screening

- Has known hypersensitivity to any oligodeoxynucleotide

- Has a history of drug or alcohol abuse within one year of screening, or evidence of
drug abuse by urine drug screening

- Has body weight >140 kg

- Has a diagnosis of Juvenile DM, IBM, drug-induced toxic myopathy, metabolic myopathy,
dystrophy, cancer-associated DM, or connective tissue disease-associated DM (e.g.,
overlap syndrome)

- Has received one or more of following prohibited treatments within the interval noted
prior to Screening (Visit 1):

1. Rituximab within 24 weeks (Note: patients who received rituximab are only
eligible for inclusion if B-cell counts are confirmed to be within normal limits)

2. Intravenous corticosteroids within 12 weeks

3. Antimalarials (e.g., hydroxychloroquine) within 36 weeks

4. Topical corticosteroids (excluding scalp) within 2 weeks

- Has evidence of or has required treatment for cancer (except for treated, non-invasive
carcinoma of the skin or cured cervical carcinoma-in-situ) within 5 years

- Has interstitial lung disease requiring the use of supplemental oxygen



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 75 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Dermatomyositis
Intervention(s)
Drug: Placebo
Drug: IMO-8400 Dose Group 1
Drug: IMO-8400 Dose Group 2
Primary Outcome(s)
To Assess the Safety and Tolerability of IMO-8400 in Adult Subjects With DM [Time Frame: 28 weeks (24 weeks treatment + 4 weeks follow up)]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Change From Baseline in CDASI (Cutaneous Disease and Activity Severity Index) Activity Score [Time Frame: 28 weeks (24 weeks treatment + 4 weeks follow up)]
Secondary ID(s)
8400-211
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
Results available: Yes
Date Posted: 10/10/2019
Date Completed:
URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT02612857
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