Clinical trial NCT06973304: A Study of Teduglutide in Chinese Adults With Short Bowel Syndrome
Official title: An Open-label, Phase 3 Study to Evaluate the Efficacy, Safety and Pharmacokinetics of 0.05 mg/kg/Day Subcutaneous Teduglutide Following Treatment of Short Bowel Syndrome for 24 Weeks in Chinese Adults Who Are Dependent on Parenteral Support
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Phase: PHASE3
Conditions: Short Bowel Syndrome
Keywords: Drug Therapy
Lead sponsor: Takeda
Sponsor class: INDUSTRY
First posted: 2025-05-15
Enrollment: 13
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The main aim of the study is to assess how well teduglutide works over 24 weeks in Chinese adult participants with short bowel syndrome (SBS) who need parenteral support and to see how much it can reduce the amount of parenteral support and understand how the body absorbs, processes, and gets rid of teduglutide.

Participants will receive a daily injection of teduglutide under the skin for 24 weeks. Safety of teduglutide will be checked for 24 weeks after treatment.

Participants will be in the study for about 65 weeks.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Males or females 18 years of age or older at the time of signing the informed consent.
2. Intestinal failure due to SBS as a consequence of major intestinal resection (example, due to injury, volvulus, vascular disease, cancer, Crohn's disease).
3. Has undergone intestinal resection resulting in at least 12 continuous months of PS dependency prior to signing the informed consent.
4. Requires PS at least 3 times per week or at least 4 liters per week during the 2 weeks prior to baseline to meet caloric, fluid, or electrolyte needs due to ongoing malabsorption.
5. Has a stable PS requirement for at least 4 consecutive weeks immediately prior to the start of teduglutide treatment. Stability is defined as follows:

   1. Actual PS usage is similar to prescribed PS.
   2. Baseline (Visit 2) 48-hour intake (I)/output (O) volumes should fall within +-25% of the respective 48-hour I/O volumes at the last optimization visit.
   3. The 48-hour urine output volume must not be less than 2 liters and should not exceed 4 liters at the last optimization visit, the stabilization visit, and the baseline visit.
6. Participants with a history of Crohn's disease must be in endoscopic remission for at least 12 weeks prior to the baseline visit.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Pregnant or lactating female.
2. Participation in a clinical study using an experimental drug within 30 days or 5 half-lives, whichever is longer, prior to screening, or concurrent participation in any other clinical study.
3. Use of glucagon-like peptide (GLP)-2 or human growth hormone or analogs of these hormones within the past 6 months prior to the baseline visit.
4. Use of octreotide, GLP-1 analogs, or dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors within 30 days prior to the baseline visit.
5. Previous use of teduglutide.
6. Active inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) or any participant with IBD requiring immunosuppressant therapy (example, azathioprine,anti-tumor necrosis factor \[anti-TNF\]) drugs) that had been introduced or changed within the past 6 months prior to the baseline visit.
7. Intestinal malabsorption due to a genetic condition, such as cystic fibrosis, microvillus inclusion disease, familial adenomatous polyposis.
8. Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction or severe dysmotility.
9. Clinically significant intestinal stenosis or obstruction, or evidence of such on upper gastrointestinal (UGI)/small bowel follow-through (SBFT), within the past 6 months prior to the baseline visit.
10. Major gastrointestinal (GI) surgical intervention, including significant intestinal resection, within the past 3 months (insertion of feeding tube, anastomotic ulcer repair, minor intestinal resections less than or equal to \[\<=\] 10 centimeter \[cm\], or endoscopic procedure is allowed) prior to the baseline visit.
11. Unstable cardiac disease, (example, congestive heart failure, cyanotic disease, or congenital heart disease).
12. Moderate or severe renal impairment, defined as creatinine clearance less than 50 milliliters per minute (mL/min).
13. Currently diagnosed with cancer or a history of any cancer except surgically cured skin cancer within the past 5 years.
14. Severe hepatobiliary disease including any of the following:

    1. Total bilirubin level at least 2 times the upper limit of normal (ULN), except for increased indirect (unconjugated) bilirubin in a patient with Gilbert's syndrome.
    2. AST at least 5\*ULN.
    3. ALT at least 5\*ULN
15. Active clinically significant pancreatic disease, including clinical signs of pancreatitis associated with elevations in serum amylase or lipase at least 2\*ULN.
16. More than 4 SBS-related or PS-related hospital admissions (example, central line-associated bloodstream infection, bowel obstruction, severe fluid/electrolyte disturbances) within the past 12 months prior to the baseline visit.
17. Unscheduled hospitalization within 30 days prior to screening.
18. Non-herpetic viral diseases:

    1. Presence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody and a positive confirmatory test result for HCV RNA (ribonucleic acid) (nucleic acid test or polymerase chain reaction).
    2. Presence of (Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Positive \[HBsAg+\]). For participants who are negative for HBsAg but are positive for either surface antibodies and/or core antibodies, hepatitis B virus (HBV) deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) polymerase chain reaction will be performed; if any test result meets or exceeds detection sensitivity, the subject will be excluded.
    3. Positive results for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by serology, regardless of viral load.
19. Any condition, disease, illness, or circumstance that in the investigator's opinion puts the participant at any undue risk, prevents completion of the study, or interferes with analysis of the study results. Example of potential disease state/illnesses that may be excluded are listed in the protocol.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Percentage of Participants Who Achieved At Least 20 Percent (%) Reduction From Baseline in Weekly Parenteral Support (PS) Volume at Week 20 and Maintained Through Week 24
timeFrame: Up to Week 24
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Absolute Change From Baseline in Weekly PS Volume up to Week 24
timeFrame: Baseline up to Week 24
measure: Percent Change From Baseline in Weekly PS Volume up to Week 24
timeFrame: Baseline up to Week 24
measure: Absolute Change From Baseline in Days Per Week of PS up to Week 24
timeFrame: Baseline up to Week 24
measure: Percent Change From Baseline in Days Per Week of PS up to Week 24
timeFrame: Baseline up to Week 24
measure: Number of Participants Who Achieved At Least 20% Reduction From Baseline in Weekly PS Volume at each visit
timeFrame: Up to Week 24
measure: Number of Participants With At Least a 20% Reduction From Baseline in Weekly PS at Week 20 and Maintained Through Week 24
timeFrame: Baseline, Week 20 and Week 24
measure: Number of Participants With At Least a 2-liter Reduction From Baseline in Weekly PS at Week 20 and Maintained Through Week 24
timeFrame: Baseline, Week 20 and Week 24
measure: Number of Participants who are able to Completely Wean off of PS support at Week 24
timeFrame: At Week 24
measure: Time From First Dose to Time of Completely Weaning off of PS Support
timeFrame: Up to Week 24
measure: AUC0-inf: Area Under the Plasma Concentration-time Curve From Time 0 to Time of Infinity for Teduglutide
timeFrame: Predose, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 hours post-dose
measure: AUC0-last: Area Under the Plasma Concentration-time Curve From Time 0 to Time of the Last Quantifiable Concentration for Teduglutide
timeFrame: Predose, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 hours post-dose
measure: Cmax: Maximum Observed Plasma Concentration for Teduglutide
timeFrame: Predose, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 hours post-dose
measure: Tmax: Time to Reach the Cmax for Teduglutide
timeFrame: Predose, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 hours post-dose
measure: T1/2: Terminal Phase Half-life for Teduglutide
timeFrame: Predose, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 hours post-dose
measure: CL/F: Apparent Clearance for Teduglutide
timeFrame: Predose, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 hours post-dose
measure: V/F: Apparent Volume of Distribution During the Terminal Elimination Phase for Teduglutide
timeFrame: Predose, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 hours post-dose
measure: Plasma Concentrations of Teduglutide
timeFrame: At Week 4 and Week 24
measure: Number of Participants With Positive Antidrug Antibodies (Neutralizing and Non-neutralizing)
timeFrame: Baseline, Week 4, and Week 24
measure: Number of Participants Who Experienced At Least One Treatment-emergent Adverse Event (TEAE), Serious Adverse Event (SAE), and Adverse Event of Special Interest (AESI)
timeFrame: From first dose of study drug up to follow-up (Week 48)
measure: Change From Baseline in 48-hour Urine Output
timeFrame: Baseline up to 48 hours
measure: Change From Baseline in Body Weight
timeFrame: Baseline up to Week 48
measure: Change From Baseline in Body Mass Index
timeFrame: Baseline up to Week 48
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Changping
country: China
facility: Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital
state: Beijing
city: Dongcheng
country: China
facility: Peking Union Medical College Hospital
state: Beijing
city: Nanjing
country: China
facility: Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University
state: Jiangsu
city: Siming
country: China
facility: Zhongshan Hospital, Xiamen University
state: Xiamen
Study officials:
affiliation: Takeda
name: Study Director
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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