Clinical trial NCT02434029: Budesonide Orodispersible Tablet vs. Placebo in Active Eosinophilic Esophagitis
Official title: Double-blind, Randomized, Placebo-controlled, Phase III Trial on the Efficacy and Tolerability of a 6-week Treatment With Budesonide Effervescent Tablets vs. Placebo for Induction of Clinico-pathological Remission in Adult Patients With Active Eosinophilic Esophagitis
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE3
Conditions: Eosinophilic Esophagitis
Lead sponsor: Dr. Falk Pharma GmbH
Sponsor class: INDUSTRY
First posted: 2015-05-05
Enrollment: 88
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 75
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to prove the superiority of a 6-weeks treatment with budesonide effervescent tablets versus placebo for the induction of clinico-pathological remission in patients with acute eosinophilic esophagitis.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Signed informed consent,
* Male or female patients, 18 to 75 years of age,
* Confirmed clinico-pathological diagnosis of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) according to established diagnostic criteria
* Active symptomatic and histological EoE,
* A documented trial with proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) in order to rule out PPI-responsive esophageal eosinophilia,
* Negative pregnancy test in females of childbearing potential at baseline visit.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Clinical and endoscopic signs of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD),
* History of abnormal results in case of an optionally performed pH-monitoring of the distal esophagus,
* Patients with PPI-responsive esophageal eosinophilia
* Achalasia, scleroderma esophagus, or systemic sclerosis,
* Other clinically evident causes than EoE for esophageal eosinophilia,
* Any concomitant esophageal disease and relevant gastro-intestinal disease (celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease, oropharyngeal or esophageal bacterial, viral, or fungal infection \[candida esophagitis\]),
* Any relevant systemic disease (e.g., AIDS, active tuberculosis),
* If careful medical monitoring is not ensured: cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, osteoporosis, active peptic ulcer disease, glaucoma, cataract, or infection,
* Liver cirrhosis or portal hypertension,
* History of cancer in the last five years,
* History of esophageal surgery at any time or of esophageal dilation procedures within the last 8 weeks prior to screening visit,
* Upper gastrointestinal bleeding within 8 weeks prior to screening visit,
* Existing or intended pregnancy or breast-feeding.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Rate of clinico-pathological remission
timeFrame: 6 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Rate of patients with histological remission
timeFrame: 6 weeks
measure: Rate of patients with resolutions of symptoms measured by numerical rating score of symptoms
timeFrame: week 6
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Hamburg
country: Germany
facility: Center for Digestive Diseases Eppendorf
Study officials:
affiliation: Dr. Falk Pharma GmbH
name: Ralph Mueller, PhD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
References:
citation: Straumann A, Lucendo AJ, Miehlke S, Vieth M, Schlag C, Biedermann L, Vaquero CS, Ciriza de Los Rios C, Schmoecker C, Madisch A, Hruz P, Hayat J, von Arnim U, Bredenoord AJ, Schubert S, Mueller R, Greinwald R, Schoepfer A, Attwood S; International EOS-2 Study Group. Budesonide Orodispersible Tablets Maintain Remission in a Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Patients With Eosinophilic Esophagitis. Gastroenterology. 2020 Nov;159(5):1672-1685.e5. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2020.07.039. Epub 2020 Jul 25.
citation: Lucendo AJ, Miehlke S, Schlag C, Vieth M, von Arnim U, Molina-Infante J, Hartmann D, Bredenoord AJ, Ciriza de Los Rios C, Schubert S, Bruckner S, Madisch A, Hayat J, Tack J, Attwood S, Mueller R, Greinwald R, Schoepfer A, Straumann A; International EOS-1 Study Group. Efficacy of Budesonide Orodispersible Tablets as Induction Therapy for Eosinophilic Esophagitis in a Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial. Gastroenterology. 2019 Jul;157(1):74-86.e15. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2019.03.025. Epub 2019 Mar 26.