A Clinical Study to Investigate the Efficacy and Safety of Lacosamide as an Add on Therapy in Children With Epilepsy With Partial-onset Seizures

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Trial end date: 2022-04-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the long-term safety, tolerability and efficacy of lacosamide (LCM) in pediatric subjects.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: UCB BIOSCIENCES, Inc.
• Collaborators: PRA Health Sciences; UCB Biopharma SRL
• Treatments: Lacosamide

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• An Institutional Review Board (IRB)/Independent Ethics Committee (IEC) approved written Informed Consent form (ICF) is signed and dated by the subject or legal representative. The ICF or a specific Assent form, where required, will be signed and dated by minors

• Subject has completed the Transition Period of SP0967 [NCT02477839] or SP0969 [NCT01921205] for the treatment of uncontrolled partial-onset seizures in pediatric epilepsy

• Subject is expected to benefit from participation, in the opinion of the investigator

• Subject/legal representative is considered reliable and capable of adhering to the protocol (eg, able to understand and complete diaries), visit schedule, and medication intake according to the judgment of the investigator

• Subject is male or female aged 1 month to ≤17 years

• Subject has a diagnosis of epilepsy with partial-onset seizures

Exclusion Criteria:

• Subject is receiving any investigational drugs or using any experimental devices in addition to lacosamide (LCM)

• Subject meets a mandatory withdrawal criterion (ie, MUST withdraw criterion) for SP0967 or SP0969, or is experiencing an ongoing serious adverse event (SAE)

• For subjects ≥6 years of age, subject has a lifetime history of suicide attempt (including an actual attempt, interrupted attempt, or aborted attempt), or has suicidal ideation in the past 6 months as indicated by a positive response ('Yes') to either Question 4 or Question 5 of the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) at Visit 1

• Female subject who is pregnant or nursing, and/or a female subject of childbearing potential who is not surgically sterile or does not practice 1 highly effective method of contraception