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NCT01964560

A Clinical Study to Investigate the Efficacy and Safety of Lacosamide as an Add on Therapy in Children With Epilepsy With Partial-onset Seizures

Completed Phase 3 Results posted Last updated 25 October 2022
What this trial tests

Phase 3 trial testing Lacosamide in Epilepsy in 540 participants. Completed in 13 April 2022.

Timeline
13 August 2014
Primary endpoint
13 April 2022
13 April 2022

Quick facts

Lead sponsorUCB BIOSCIENCES, Inc.
PhasePhase 3
StatusCompleted
Study typeINTERVENTIONAL
Allocationna
Designsingle group
Maskingnone
Primary purposetreatment
Enrollment540
Start date13 August 2014
Primary completion13 April 2022
Estimated completion13 April 2022
Sites141 locations across Italy, Colombia, Taiwan, Poland, South Korea, Philippines, Croatia, Russia

Drugs / interventions tested

Conditions studied

Sponsor

UCB BIOSCIENCES, Inc. — full company profile →

Who can join

Adults 1 Month to 17, any sex, with Epilepsy. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Results — posted to ClinicalTrials.gov

Per-arm endpoint measurements with 95% confidence intervals where reported. Source: trial results section.

Percentage of Participants With Treatment-emergent Adverse Events (TEAEs) Primary · From Week 0 to the End of Safety Follow-Up (up to Week 104)

An adverse event (AE) is any untoward medical occurrence in a patient or clinical investigation participant administered a pharmaceutical product that does not necessarily have a causal relationship with this treatment. An AE can therefore be any unfavorable and unintended sign (including an abnormal laboratory finding), symptom, or disease temporally associated with the use of a medicinal (investigational) product, whether or not related to the medicinal (investigational) product. Treatment-emergent is defined as starting on or after the date of first dose of LCM in EP0034, and within 30 days

GroupValue95% CI
Lacosamide (All Subjects)77.2
Percentage of Participants With Serious TEAEs Primary · From Week 0 to the End of Safety Follow-Up (up to Week 104)

A serious adverse event (SAE) must meet 1 or more of the following criteria: • Death, • Life-threatening (Life-threatening does not include a reaction that might have caused death had it occurred in a more severe form.), • Significant or persistent disability/incapacity, • Congenital anomaly/birth defect (including that occurring in a fetus), • Important medical event that, based upon appropriate medical judgment, may jeopardize the patient or participant and may require medical or surgical intervention to prevent 1 of the other outcomes listed in the definition of serious., • Initial inpatien

GroupValue95% CI
Lacosamide (All Subjects)20.6
Percentage of Participants With TEAEs Leading to Study Discontinuation Primary · From Week 0 to the End of Safety Follow-Up (up to Week 104)

An adverse event (AE) is any untoward medical occurrence in a patient or clinical investigation participant administered a pharmaceutical product, which does not necessarily have a causal relationship with this treatment. AEs leading to study discontinuation. Treatment-emergent is defined as starting on or after the date of first dose of LCM in EP0034, and within 30 days of last dose.

GroupValue95% CI
Lacosamide (All Subjects)4.1
Percentage of Seizure-free Days During the Study Secondary · From Week 0 to End of Treatment (up to Week 96)

The number of seizure-free days was the total number of days within an interval for which daily diary data were available and no seizures were reported. The percentage of seizure-free days was computed as 100 times the number of seizure-free days in the interval divided by the number of days in the interval for which daily diary data were available. Percentage of seizure-free days was measured using data obtained from participant diaries from EP0034 and is presented for the overall Treatment only.

GroupValue95% CI
Lacosamide (All Subjects)66.96± 36.18

Adverse events — posted to ClinicalTrials.gov

Time frame: From Week 0 to the End of Safety Follow-Up (up to Week 104). Reporting threshold: 5%. Adverse-event reports describe events observed during the trial — not all are caused by the drug.

Lacosamide (All Subjects)
Serious: 111/540 (21%)
Deaths: 7/540

Serious adverse events (126 terms)

ReactionSystemLacosamide (All Subjects)
ConvulsionNervous system disorders
PneumoniaInfections and infestations
VomitingGastrointestinal disorders
Status epilepticusNervous system disorders
EpilepsyNervous system disorders
BronchitisInfections and infestations
NauseaGastrointestinal disorders
PyrexiaGeneral disorders
Upper respiratory tract infectionInfections and infestations
Partial seizuresNervous system disorders
BronchopneumoniaInfections and infestations
DizzinessNervous system disorders
Partial seizures with secondary generalisationNervous system disorders
Respiratory distressRespiratory, thoracic and mediastinal disorders
Respiratory failureRespiratory, thoracic and mediastinal disorders
Abdominal painGastrointestinal disorders
ConstipationGastrointestinal disorders
DiarrhoeaGastrointestinal disorders
Device malfunctionGeneral disorders
Dengue feverInfections and infestations
GastroenteritisInfections and infestations
Gastroenteritis viralInfections and infestations
InfluenzaInfections and infestations
Rhinovirus infectionInfections and infestations
ContusionInjury, poisoning and procedural complications
Other adverse events (12 terms — click to expand)

ReactionSystemLacosamide (All Subjects)
PyrexiaGeneral disorders
Upper respiratory tract infectionInfections and infestations
NasopharyngitisInfections and infestations
VomitingGastrointestinal disorders
DiarrhoeaGastrointestinal disorders
PharyngitisInfections and infestations
CoughRespiratory, thoracic and mediastinal disorders
BronchitisInfections and infestations
SomnolenceNervous system disorders
HeadacheNervous system disorders
InfluenzaInfections and infestations
ConvulsionNervous system disorders

Most-reported serious reactions: Convulsion, Pneumonia, Vomiting, Status epilepticus, Epilepsy, Bronchitis, Nausea, Pyrexia.

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01964560 adverse events section.

Sponsor's own description

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the long-term safety, tolerability and efficacy of lacosamide (LCM) in pediatric subjects.

Publications & conference data

6 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

  1. Efficacy and tolerability of adjunctive lacosamide in pediatric patients with focal seizures.
    Farkas V, Steinborn B, Flamini JR, Zhang Y, et al · · 2019 · cited 48× · PMID 31462582 · DOI 10.1212/wnl.0000000000008126
  2. Pathophysiology to Risk Factor and Therapeutics to Treatment Strategies on Epilepsy.
    Boleti APA, Cardoso PHO, Frihling BEF, de Moraes LFRN, et al · · 2024 · cited 14× · PMID 38248286 · DOI 10.3390/brainsci14010071
  3. Efficacy and tolerability of adjunctive lacosamide in patients aged <4 years with focal seizures.
    Makedonska I, Ng YT, Beller C, Bozorg A, et al · · 2024 · cited 6× · PMID 38375995 · DOI 10.1002/acn3.52004
  4. Safety and tolerability of short-term infusions of intravenous lacosamide in pediatric patients with epilepsy: An open-label, phase 2/3 trial.
    Farkas MK, Beller C, Bozorg A, McClung C, et al · · 2023 · cited 3× · PMID 36529709 · DOI 10.1002/epi4.12682
  5. Questionable Industry-Sponsored Postneonatal Pediatric Studies in Slovenia.
    Rose K, Neubauer D, Grant-Kels JM. · · 2019 · cited 2× · PMID 31388360 · DOI 10.1016/j.curtheres.2019.01.002
  6. Long-term efficacy, safety, and tolerability, including behavior and executive functioning, during adjunctive lacosamide treatment in pediatric patients with uncontrolled epilepsy.
    Farkas MK, Makedonska I, Beller C, Bourikas D, et al · · 2024 · PMID 39216464 · DOI 10.1016/j.yebeh.2024.109989

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