Safety, Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy Study of QCC374 in PAH Patients



Status:Completed
Conditions:High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)
Therapuetic Areas:Cardiology / Vascular Diseases
Healthy:No
Age Range:18 - Any
Updated:3/22/2019
Start Date:September 19, 2017
End Date:June 7, 2018

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A Randomized, Parallel-group, Placebo-controlled Subject and Investigator Blinded Study to Assess the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy of QCC374 in the Treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

This is a non-confirmatory, randomized, subject and investigator blinded, placebo controlled
study of QCC374 in PAH patients. The study will have 2 parts. In Part 1, an initial safety
cohort, 8 subjects will be randomized in a 6:2 ratio and the starting dose will be 0.03 mg
b.i.d.. In Part 2, ~ 30 subjects will be randomized in a 2:1 ratio, with a planned starting
dose of 0.06 mg b.i.d.. In both Parts, subjects will be up-titrated during the first two
weeks of the study to 0.12 mg b.i.d, or to their maximum tolerated dose (MTD) if their
individual MTD is below 0.12 mg b.i.d. during the first two weeks of the study. The treatment
duration is 16 weeks.


Inclusion Criteria:

- Male and female patients 18 years of age or older with symptomatic PAH.

- Subjects with PAH belonging to one of the following subgroups of the Updated Clinical
Classification Group 1 (Nice, 2013):

- Idiopathic PAH

- familial PAH

- PAH associated with connective tissue disease, congenital heart disease (surgically
repaired at least 12 months prior to screening) or drug or toxin induced (for example,
anorexigen use).

- Subjects must have persistent symptoms due to PAH despite therapy with at least one of
the following PAH medications: an endothelin receptor antagonist, asoluble guanylate
cyclase stimulator or a phosphodiesterase inhibitor. The subjects' PAH medication
regimen, with typical medications including calcium channel blockers, endothelin
receptor antagonists, soluble guanylate cyclase stimulators and/or phosphodiesterase
inhibitors, must have been used at a stable dose and frequency for at least 12 weeks
before the screening visit and during the screening period.

- Diagnosis of PAH established according to the standard criteria before the screening
visit:

- Resting mean pulmonary arterial pressure > 25 mmHg.

- PVR > 240 dynes s/cm5.

- Pulmonary capillary wedge pressure or left ventricular end diastolic pressure < 15
mmHg

- PVR > 400 dynes s/cm5 at the time of the baseline right heart catheterization (RHC)
(if a RHC was completed within one month of the screening visit, that result may be
used for inclusion).

- 6-minute walk distance greater than 150 meters at Screening. This distance must be
confirmed by a second 6MWT prior to randomization. The value of the second 6MWD should
be within ± 15% of the value obtained at Screening.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Subjects with clinically unstable right heart failure within the last three months
(New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class IV).

- Subjects with PAH associated with portal hypertension, Human Immunodeficiency Virus
(HIV) infection or unrepaired congenital systemic to pulmonary shunts

- Subjects who have received or have been scheduled to receive long-term treatment with
epoprostenol or any prostacyclin within the three months prior to the screening visit
or during the screening period.

- Hypotensive subjects (systemic systolic blood pressure < 85 mmHg)

- Subjects with a history of left sided heart disease, chronic left sided heart failure,
congenital or acquired valvular disease and/or pulmonary venous hypertension.

- Subjects with significant obstructive (forced expiratory volume in one second
[FEV1]/forced vital capacity [FVC] < 70% predicted) or restrictive (total lung
capacity < 70% predicted) lung disease at screening.
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