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NCT number NCT02183025
Other study ID # 107.191
Secondary ID
Status Completed
Phase Phase 2
First received
Last updated
Start date January 1998

Study information

Verified date August 2018
Source Boehringer Ingelheim
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

To access the efficacy and safety of Meloxicam 7.5 mg and 15 mg once daily compared with Mefenamic acid 500 mg t.i.d. over a treatment period of 3-5 days, during an observation period of 3 menstrual cycles, for the symptomatic relief of primary dysmenorrhea


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 337
Est. completion date
Est. primary completion date April 1999
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender Female
Age group 18 Years to 40 Years
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria:

- Female patients between 18 to 40 years

- Patients experiencing primary (functional) dysmenorrhea during the last 3 consecutive menstrual periods. Diagnosis will be based on symptoms and clinical signs: abdominopelvic pain, may radiate to the back and along the thighs; systemic symptoms including nausea, vomit, diarrhoea, headache, fatigue, nervousness, dizziness; the symptomatology should be usually some hours to one day before commencement of visible vaginal bleeding

- Evaluation of lumbar and/or abdominopelvic pain due to dysmenorrhea > 35 mm through a 100 mm visual analogue scale (VAS)

- Outpatients

- Patients granting their written informed consent

- Therapy with a NSAID (nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug) is required or recommended

Exclusion Criteria:

- Known or suspected hypersensitivity to trial drugs or their excipients, analgesics, antipyretics or NASIDs

- Analgesic concomitant treatment (between each cycle paracetamol administration will be allowed)

- To initiate hormonal contraception or intrauterine devices after inclusion to this trial or during the last 3 months

- Abdominal surgery or pelvic procedure scheduled during the study

- Patients with organic dysmenorrhea (endometriosis, salpingitis, adnexitis, uterine retroversion, tubal cysts, ovarian cysts, pathological vaginal secretion, painful pelvic exploration, etc.)

- Patients with neoplastic disorders

- History of recent abdominal or pelvic trauma requiring surgery

- Peptic ulcer within the past 6 months

- Pregnancy or breast feeding

- Asthma, nasal polyps, angioneurotic edema or rash following aspirin or NSAIDs administration

- Concomitant treatment with anti-coagulants, including heparin and aspirin, lithium or methotrexate

- Concomitant administration of other NSAIDs (including aspirin > 150 mg daily) or analgesics

- Confinement to bed rest

- Administration of any NSAID during two days (three for oxicams) before the first administration of the trial drug

- Present treatment or treatment within the last two months with corticosteroids

- Impaired renal function (serum urea > 125 % of the upper limit of normal range; serum creatinine > 150 % of the upper limit of normal range)

- Sever liver injury (alanine amino transferase ALAT > 2 x the upper normal range limit or aspartate amino transferase ASAT > 2 x the upper normal range limit)

- Hematological disorder (platelet count < 100,000/mm**3, leucocyte count < 3,000/mm**3)

- Participation in another clinical trial during this study or the previous month

- Previous participation in this trial

- Patient unable to comply with protocol

- Bleeding disorders

Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Drug:
Meloxicam 7.5 mg

Meloxicam 15 mg

Mefenamic acid 500 mg

Placebo matching 7.5 mg meloxicam

Placebo matching 15 mg meloxicam

Placebo matching 500 mg mefenamic acid


Locations

Country Name City State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Boehringer Ingelheim

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Evaluation of severity of lumbar and/or abdominal pain on a visual analogue scale (VAS) Baseline and day 3-5 of each treatment cycle
Secondary Final global assessment of efficacy by patient on a 4-point scale day 3-5 of the second treatment cycle
Secondary Final global assessment of efficacy by investigator on a 4-point scale day 3-5 of the second treatment cycle
Secondary Final global assessment of tolerability by patient on a 4-point scale day 3-5 of the second treatment cycle
Secondary Final global assessment of tolerability by investigator on a 4-point scale day 3-5 of the second treatment cycle
Secondary Number of Participants with Adverse Events (AE) Up to 4 weeks after last treatment cycle
Secondary Incidence of significant laboratory events Up to 4 weeks after last treatment cycle
Secondary Number of perforations, ulcerations and/or bleedings (PUB) of the upper gastro-intestinal tract Up to 4 weeks after last treatment cycle
Secondary Number of gastro-intestinal adverse events (GI-AEs) Up to 4 weeks after last treatment cycle
Secondary Duration of hospitalization stay due to GI-AEs Up to 4 weeks after last treatment cycle
Secondary Number of additional visits at physician due to GI-AEs Up to 4 weeks after last treatment cycle
Secondary Duration of hospitalization due to drug related AEs Up to 4 weeks after last treatment cycle
Secondary Number of withdrawals due to AEs Up to 4 weeks after last treatment cycle
Secondary Intensity of AEs on a 3-point scale Up to 4 weeks after last treatment cycle
Secondary Evaluation of labor and/or daily life disability associated with dysmenorrhea on a VAS Baseline and day 3-5 of each treatment cycle
Secondary Change in severity of symptomatology associated with dysmenorrhea Baseline and day 3-5 of each treatment cycle
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