Efficacy, Safety, Pharmacokinetics and Immunogenicity Study of Abatacept Administered Intravenously to Treat Active Polyarticular-course Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis in Japan

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2018-07-30
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy of Abatacept after intravenous administration in Japanese children and adolescents with active juvenile idiopathic arthritis who have a history of an inadequate response or intolerance to Methotrexate or biologics

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Bristol-Myers Squibb
• Collaborator: Ono Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd
• Treatments: Abatacept

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Subjects who have a history of an inadequate therapeutic response or intolerance in the opinion of the examining physician to at least one biologics or Methotrexate (MTX).

• Diagnosis of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) by International League of Associations for Rheumatology (ILAR) criteria as oligoarticular, polyarticular Rheumatoid Factor (RF+), polyarticular (RF-), or systemic with a polyarticular-course.

• Men and women, ages 4 to 17 years, inclusive at enrollment.

• Subjects must have a history of at least 5 joints with active disease and must have currently active articular disease as defined by:

1. ≥2 active joints (e.g. presence of swelling, or if no swelling is present, limitation of motion (LOM) accompanied by pain, tenderness, or both) at screening and at Week 0 (Day 1).

2. ≥2 joints with LOM at screening and at Week 0 (Day 1).

Exclusion Criteria:

• Systemic onset JIA with any of the following manifestations within the last 6 months prior to enrollment: intermittent fever due to JIA, rheumatoid rash, hepatosplenomegaly, pleuritis, pericarditis, or macrophage activation syndrome.

• Presence of any other rheumatic disease or major chronic infectious/inflammatory/immunologic disease (e.g. inflammatory bowel disease, psoriatic arthritis, spondyloarthropathy, hypogammaglobulinemia, or systemic lupus erythematosus, etc.)