Nebulized Fentanyl in Patients With Mild to Moderate Interstitial Lung Disease and Chronic Dyspnea

• Status: Suspended
• Trial end date: 2022-08-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD) experience distressing activity-related respiratory discomfort which is challenging to manage therapeutically. Interventions such as pulmonary rehabilitation, collaborative self-management, supplemental oxygen therapy and oral opiate medications, are variably effective and therapeutic responses to each in individual patients are difficult to predict. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the acute effects of inhaled opiate therapy (fentanyl citrate) on breathing discomfort (dyspnea) in individuals with mild-to-moderate ILD, as well as examine the potential mechanisms of dyspnea relief.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Queen's University
• Collaborators: Boehringer Ingelheim; Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) LTD
• Treatments: Citric Acid; Fentanyl

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Fibrotic interstitial lung disease (ILD) diagnosis confirmed by specialty ILD clinic

• A total lung capacity (TLC)capacity (FVC) volume in 1 second (FEV1)/FVC >70%.

• Clinically stable as defined by no changes in medication dosage or frequency of administration with no exacerbations or hospital admissions in the preceding 6 weeks.

• Moderate-to-severe chronic activity related dyspnea as defined by a Baseline Dyspnea Index total score ≤9, modified Medical Research Council score >1, or oxygen cost diagram.

• Ability to perform all study procedures and provide/sign informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Women of childbearing age who are pregnant or trying to become pregnant.

• Diffusing capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide (DLCO) <40 %predicted.

• Presence of active cardiopulmonary disease other than ILD that could contribute to dyspnea and exercise limitation.

• History of allergy or adverse reaction to fentanyl.

• History of allergy or adverse reaction to latex

• Presence of contraindications to pulmonary function or clinical exercise testing, including inability to exercise because of neuromuscular or musculoskeletal disease(s).

• Use of ambulatory oxygen or exercise-induced oxygen desaturation to < 80% on room air.

• Body mass index (BMI) <18.5 or ≥35.0 kg/m2.

• Use of antidepressant drugs (i.e., monoamine oxidase inhibitors, serotonin reuptake inhibitors) in the previous 2 weeks.

• Use of opioid drugs (e.g., morphine, fentanyl, oxycodone, codeine, etc.) in the previous 4 weeks.

Note: Healthy volunteers will only be used to assist in the characterization of the IPF study group, i.e., for comparison of baseline exercise responses. They will not undergo treatment.