Conditions: Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Allocation: NA | Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Enrollment: 34
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
This study enrolls patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) treated with inhaled treprostinil. During the study, the treatment with inhaled treprostinil will be tapered off and simultaneously replaced with an oral treatment (selexipag) targeting the disease in a similar way. The purpose of the study is i) to investigate the safety and tolerability of oral selexipag in patients who transition from inhaled treprostinil, ii) to investigate the effects of oral selexipag on PAH severity and exercise ability before and after transition, and iii) to gain new information about the patients experience taking oral selexipag compared to inhaled treprostinil. Study participants may stay in the study until the FDA has granted marketing authorization.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Subjects on inhaled treprostinil treatment participate in a 16-week main treatment period including down-titration of treprostinil to end of Week 8 and parallel up-titration of selexipag to the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) up to Week 12, for each individual patient but not above 1600 mcg twice daily.

From Week 12 up to Week 16, patients continue selexipag at their individual MTD. Patients could continue the study drug selexipag during the extended treatment period from Week 16 until commercial availability of selexipag.

Interventions: intervention 1: Selexipag
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Tablets for oral administration containing 200 micrograms (mcg) of selexipag to be administered twice a day. The individual dose is to be established during the first 12 weeks of the study. Doses are in the range from 200 micrograms (1 tablet) to 1,600 micrograms (8 tablets).

Protocol document: