Conditions: Chronic Idiopathic Urticaria
Keywords: Xolair CIU
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 90
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The study is a Phase II, dose-ranging, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group study of the efficacy and safety of a single subcutaneously administered omalizumab dose as add-on therapy for the treatment of adolescent and adult patients 12-75 years old who have been diagnosed with CIU and remain symptomatic despite treatment with therapeutic doses of an H1 antihistamine. The study will enroll approximately 76 patients at approximately 45 study centers in the United States and Germany.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Omalizumab (Xolair) was administered subcutaneously on Day 0 of the study. Participants remained on stable doses of their pre-allocation Chronic Idiopathic Urticaria (CIU) H1 antihistamine treatment throughout the study, and were provided diphenhydramine as rescue medication for pruritus relief on an as-needed basis.). arm 2: Omalizumab (Xolair) was administered subcutaneously on Day 0 of the study. Participants remained on stable doses of their pre-allocation Chronic Idiopathic Urticaria (CIU) H1 antihistamine treatment throughout the study, and were provided diphenhydramine as rescue medication for pruritus relief on an as-needed basis. arm 3: Omalizumab (Xolair) was administered subcutaneously on Day 0 of the study. Participants remained on stable doses of their pre-allocation Chronic Idiopathic Urticaria (CIU) H1 antihistamine treatment throughout the study, and were provided diphenhydramine as rescue medication for pruritus relief on an as-needed basis. arm 4: Participants received a single subcutaneous placebo injection on Day 0 of the study. Participants remained on stable doses of their pre-allocation Chronic Idiopathic Urticaria CIU) H1 antihistamine treatment throughout the study, and were provided diphenhydramine as rescue medication for pruritus relief on an as-needed basis.

Interventions: intervention 1: omalizumab intervention 2: placebo intervention 3: H1 antihistamines intervention 4: Diphenhydramine
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Administered by subcutaneous injection intervention 2: Participants received a single subcutaneous placebo injection on Day 0 of the study. intervention 3: Patients received one of the following: Cetirizine 10 mg once per day (QD), Levocetirizine dihydrochloride 5 mg QD, Fexofenadine 60 mg twice per day or 180 mg QD, Loratadine 10 mg QD or Desloratadine 5 mg QD intervention 4: Diphenhydramine was provided and used on an as-needed basis (25 mg per dose)

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