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Registration number
NCT01474109
Ethics application status
Date submitted
31/10/2011
Date registered
18/11/2011
Date last updated
6/01/2015

Titles & IDs
Public title
Macitentan for the Treatment of Digital Ulcers in Systemic Sclerosis Patients
Scientific title
Prospective, Randomized, Placebo-controlled, Double-blind, Multicenter, Parallel Group Study to Assess the Efficacy, Safety and Tolerability of Macitentan in Patients With Ischemic Digital Ulcers Associated With Systemic Sclerosis
Secondary ID [1] 0 0
AC-055C301
Universal Trial Number (UTN)
Trial acronym
DUAL-1
Linked study record

Health condition
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:
Systemic Sclerosis 0 0
Ulcers 0 0
Condition category
Condition code
Inflammatory and Immune System 0 0 0 0
Autoimmune diseases
Skin 0 0 0 0
Dermatological conditions
Skin 0 0 0 0
Other skin conditions
Oral and Gastrointestinal 0 0 0 0
Other diseases of the mouth, teeth, oesophagus, digestive system including liver and colon

Intervention/exposure
Study type
Interventional
Description of intervention(s) / exposure
Treatment: Drugs - macitentan 3mg
Treatment: Drugs - macitentan 10mg
Treatment: Drugs - placebo

Active comparator: macitentan 3mg - macitentan 3mg tablet once daily

Active comparator: macitentan 10mg - macitentan 10mg tablet once daily

Placebo comparator: placebo - matching placebo once daily


Treatment: Drugs: macitentan 3mg
macitentan 3mg tablet once daily

Treatment: Drugs: macitentan 10mg
macitentan 10mg tablet once daily

Treatment: Drugs: placebo
matching placebo once daily
Intervention code [1] 0 0
Treatment: Drugs
Comparator / control treatment
Control group

Outcomes
Primary outcome [1] 0 0
Incidence Rate of New Digital Ulcers (DUs) up to Week 16
Timepoint [1] 0 0
Baseline to week 16
Secondary outcome [1] 0 0
Percentage of Participants Without a New DU Up To Week 16
Timepoint [1] 0 0
Baseline to week 16
Secondary outcome [2] 0 0
Percentage of Participants With at Least One DU Complication
Timepoint [2] 0 0
Up to approximately 90 weeks
Secondary outcome [3] 0 0
Change in Hand Functionality Health Assessment Questionnaire - Disability Index (HAQ-DI) Hand Component From Baseline to Week 16
Timepoint [3] 0 0
Baseline to week 16
Secondary outcome [4] 0 0
Health Assessment Questionnaire - Disability Index (HAQ-DI) Overall Score From Baseline to Week 16
Timepoint [4] 0 0
Baseline to week 16
Secondary outcome [5] 0 0
Change in Hand Functionality - Hand Disability in Systemic Sclerosis - Digital Ulcers (HDISS-DU) Score From Baseline to Week 16
Timepoint [5] 0 0
Baseline to week 16

Eligibility
Key inclusion criteria
Inclusion Criteria :

* Patients = 18 years of age
* Women of childbearing potential must use two reliable methods of contraception
* Diagnosis of SSc according to the classification criteria of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR)
* At least one visible, active ischemic digital ulcers (DU) at baseline
* History of at least one additional recent active ischemic DU
Minimum age
18 Years
Maximum age
No limit
Sex
Both males and females
Can healthy volunteers participate?
No
Key exclusion criteria
Exclusion Criteria :

* DUs due to condition other than SSc
* Symptomatic Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)
* Body mass index (BMI) < 18 kg/m^2
* Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and/or alanine aminotransferase (ALT) > 1.5 x upper limit of the normal range (ULN)
* Hemoglobin < 75% of the lower limit of the normal range
* Systolic blood pressure < 95 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure < 50 mmHg
* Severe malabsorption; any severe organ failure (e.g., lung, kidney), or any life-threatening condition.
* Females who are pregnant or breastfeeding or plan to do so during the course of this study.
* Substance or alcohol abuse or dependence, or tobacco use at any level.
* Treatment with phosphodiesterase type-5 (PDE5) inhibitors.
* Patients on statins, who have received treatment for less than 3 months prior to Screening or whose treatment has not been stable during this period.
* Patients on vasodilators, who have received treatment for less than 2 weeks prior to Screening or whose treatment has not been stable during this period.
* Treatment with prostanoids within 3 months.
* Treatment with disease modifying agents if present for less than 3 months prior to Screening or whose treatment has not been stable for at least 1 month prior to Screening.
* Treatment with oral corticosteroids (> 10 mg/day of prednisone or equivalent).
* Treatment with ERAs within 3 months.
* Systemic antibiotics to treat infected DU(s) within 4 weeks.

Study design
Purpose of the study
Treatment
Allocation to intervention
Randomised controlled trial
Procedure for enrolling a subject and allocating the treatment (allocation concealment procedures)
Methods used to generate the sequence in which subjects will be randomised (sequence generation)
Masking / blinding
Blinded (masking used)
Who is / are masked / blinded?
The people receiving the treatment/s
The people administering the treatment/s

The people analysing the results/data
Intervention assignment
Parallel
Other design features
Phase
Phase 3
Type of endpoint/s
Statistical methods / analysis

Recruitment
Recruitment status
Completed
Data analysis
Reason for early stopping/withdrawal
Other reasons
Date of first participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
1/12/2011
Date of last participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
Date of last data collection
Anticipated
Actual
1/11/2013
Sample size
Target
Accrual to date
Final
289
Recruitment in Australia
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Royal Adelaide Hospital - Adelaide
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Wesley Hospital, Thoracic Department - Auchenflower
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Royal Prince Alfred Hospital - Camperdown
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St Vincent's Hospital - Fitzroy
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Menzies Research Institute - Hobart
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5000 - Adelaide
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4066 - Auchenflower
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2050 - Camperdown
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3065 - Fitzroy
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7000 - Hobart
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Funding & Sponsors
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Summary
Brief summary
The DUAL-1 study is designed as a multicenter, double-blind two-period study with an initial fixed 16-week Period 1, followed by a Period 2 of variable duration. All patients completing Period 1 will continue on their original randomized treatment into Period 2, until the last randomized patient has completed Period 1.

Patients will be randomized in a 1:1:1 ratio (macitentan 3mg: macitentan 10mg: placebo).

The primary objective is to demonstrate the effect of macitentan on the reduction of the number of new digital ulcers in patients with systemic sclerosis and ongoing digital ulcers.

Other objectives include:

* the evaluation of the efficacy of macitentan on hand functionality and DU burden at Week 16 in SSc patients with ongoing DU disease.
* the evaluation of the safety and tolerability of macitentan in these patients.
* the evaluation of the efficacy of macitentan on time to first DU complication during the entire treatment period.
Trial website
https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01474109
Trial related presentations / publications
Khanna D, Denton CP, Merkel PA, Krieg T, Le Brun FO, Marr A, Papadakis K, Pope J, Matucci-Cerinic M, Furst DE; DUAL-1 Investigators; DUAL-2 Investigators. Effect of Macitentan on the Development of New Ischemic Digital Ulcers in Patients With Systemic Sclerosis: DUAL-1 and DUAL-2 Randomized Clinical Trials. JAMA. 2016 May 10;315(18):1975-88. doi: 10.1001/jama.2016.5258.
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Summary Results

For IPD and results data, please see https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01474109