Conditions: Migraines
Keywords: multiple attacks of moderate to severe migraine headaches
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 1935
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The purpose of the study is to assess the safety and efficacy of telcagepant (MK-0974) in acute treatment of multiple migraine attacks with or without aura. Primary hypotheses of this study are that telcagepant is superior to placebo, as measured by the proportion of participants who have pain freedom, pain relief, pain freedom consistency, pain relief consistency, and absence of photophobia, phonophobia, and nausea at 2 hours post-dose.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Telcagepant 140 mg, oral, tablet, across 4 migraine attacks. For migraine attack 1 only, if no headache relief is obtained after 2 hours post dose, or if the migraine recurs after 2 hours of the initial treatment, participants may receive an optional second dose of telcagepant 140 mg or placebo. arm 2: Telcagepant 280 mg, oral, tablet, across 4 migraine attacks. For migraine attack 1 only, if no headache relief is obtained after 2 hours post dose, or if the migraine recurs after 2 hours of the initial treatment, participants may receive an optional second dose of telcagepant 280 mg or placebo. arm 3: Placebo, oral, tablet, across 3 migraine attacks (1st, 2nd, and 4th). Telcagepant 140 mg will be administered for the 3rd migraine attack. Participants will receive placebo for the optional second dose. For migraine attacks 2, 3, and 4, no study medication will be provided as an optional second dose. arm 4: Placebo, oral, tablet, across 3 migraine attacks (1st, 2nd, and 3rd). Telcagepant 140 mg will be administered for the 4th migraine attack. Participants will receive placebo for the optional second dose. For migraine attacks 2, 3, and 4, no study medication will be provided as an optional second dose.

Interventions: intervention 1: Telcagepant 140 mg intervention 2: Talcagepant 280 mg intervention 3: Placebo
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Telcagepant 140 mg tablets intervention 2: Telcagepant 280 mg tablets intervention 3: Placebo tablets

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