Conditions: Epilepsy
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 43
Healthy volunteers: yes

Brief summary:
Open-label study in two parallel groups of 20 healthy subjects each. Group A assessed the effect of CBZ on ESL pharmacokinetics, and Group B assessed the effect of ESL on CBZ pharmacokinetics.

Detailed description:
Open-label study in two parallel groups of 20 healthy subjects each. Group A assessed the effect of CBZ on ESL pharmacokinetics, and Group B assessed the effect of ESL on CBZ pharmacokinetics. Each patient participated in the study for approximately 9 weeks. The clinical portion of the study was completed in approximately 3 months. Subjects received the treatments during 35 days.

Arms:
arm 1: Day 1 to Day 8 - BIA 2-093 800 mg Day 9 to Day 14 - BIA 2-093 800 mg + CBZ 200 mg Day 15 to Day 22 - BIA 2-093 800 mg + CBZ 400 mg Day 23 to Day 35 - BIA 2-093 800 mg + CBZ 400 mg twice-daily arm 2: Day 1 to Day 8 - CBZ 200 mg Day 9 to Day 14 - CBZ 400 mg Day 15 to Day 29 - CBZ 400 mg twice-daily Day 30 to Day 35 - BIA 2-093 800 mg + CBZ 400 mg twice-daily

Interventions: intervention 1: BIA 2-093 intervention 2: Carbamazepine
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: None intervention 2: None

Protocol document: