Conditions: Cushing's Disease
Keywords: Cushing's Disease pasireotide SOM230
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 162
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
This study will evaluate the safety and efficacy of two different doses of Pasireotide in patients with de novo or recurrent/persistent Cushing's Disease.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: At randomization, participants received 600 ug subcutaneously (sc) twice daily (bid). Participants continued at this dose until month 6 if their month 3 mean urinary free cortisol (mUFC) was \<= 2 x the upper limit of normal (ULN) and the mUFC was below or equal to their baseline mUFC. Participants not meeting the mUFC criteria at month 3 were unblinded and required to increase their dose to 900ug bid on an open label basis. Participants had the option to continue in the extension phase as long as they did not meet any discontinuation criteria or until pasireotide was available commercially in their country. arm 2: At randomization, participants received 900 ug subcutaneously (sc) twice daily (bid). Participants continued at this dose until month 6 if their month 3 mean urinary free cortisol (mUFC) was \<= 2 x the upper limit of normal (ULN) and the mUFC was below or equal to their baseline mUFC. Participants not meeting the mUFC criteria at month 3 were unblinded and required to increase their dose to 1200 ug bid on an open label basis. Participants had the option to continue in the extension phase as long as they did not meet any discontinuation criteria or until pasireotide was available commercially in their country.

Interventions: intervention 1: Pasireotide
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: None

Protocol document: