Overview
Next DPI LABA, Multicentre, 5-way Cross-over, Adult Asthmatic Patients
Status:
Completed
Completed
Trial end date:
2009-10-01
2009-10-01
Target enrollment:
0
0
Participant gender:
All
All
Summary
Multinational, multicentre, randomised, double blind, double dummy, placebo and active controlled, 5-way cross overPhase:
Phase 2Accepts Healthy Volunteers?
NoDetails
Lead Sponsor:
Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A.Treatments:
Beclomethasone
Formoterol Fumarate
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:- Patient's written informed consent obtained prior to any study-related procedures.
- Outpatient male or female aged ≥ 18 years.
- Evidence for "partly controlled" asthma in the 2 weeks before the screening visit
- Under previous inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) treatment at the screening visit
- Forced expiratory volume in the first second (FEV1) ≥ 60% and ≤ 90% of the predicted
normal values at the screening visit.
- A documented positive response to the reversibility test at the screening visit,
defined as ΔFEV1 ≥ 12% and ≥ 200 mL over baseline, 30 minutes after 400 μg salbutamol
pMDI
- Patients free of long-acting beta2-agonists (LABAs) treatment for at least 2 weeks
before the screening visit.
- Patients free of short-acting beta2-agonists (SABAs) treatment for at least 6 hours
before the screening visit.
- Non-smokers or ex-smokers
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pregnant or lactating women or all women physiologically capable of becoming pregnant
UNLESS they are menopausal or are using effective and acceptable methods of
contraception.
- Significant seasonal variation in asthma or asthma occurring only during episodic
exposure to an allergen or a chemical sensitizer.
- History of near fatal asthma (e.g. brittle asthma, hospitalisation for asthma
exacerbation in Intensive Care Unit) within 1 year before screening.
- Occurrence of asthma exacerbations or respiratory tract infections in the 4 weeks
preceding the screening visit.
- Diagnosis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- History of cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis or alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency.
- Diagnosis of restrictive lung disease.
- Patients treated with oral or parenteral corticosteroids in the previous 8 weeks (12
weeks for parenteral depot corticosteroids) before screening visit.
- Intolerance or contra-indication to treatment with beta2-agonists and/or inhaled
corticosteroids.
- Allergy, sensitivity or intolerance to study drugs or excipients.
- Significant medical history of and/or treatments for cardiac, renal, neurological,
hepatic, endocrine diseases, or any laboratory abnormality.