Orodispersible Minitablets of Enalapril in Children With Heart Failure Due to Dilated Cardiomyopathy — LENA-WP08  

Heart Failure Clinical Trial

Official title: Orodispersible Minitablets of Enalapril in Children With Heart Failure Due to Dilated Cardiomyopathy

Status Not yet recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

Paediatric clinical trial in 50 children, from 1 month to less than 12 years of age, suffering from heart failure due to dilated cardiomyopathy, to obtain paediatric pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic data of enalapril and its active metabolite enalaprilat while treated for 8 weeks with enalapril in form of Orodispersible Minitablets (ODMTs), to describe the dose exposure in this patient population.

Clinical Trial Description

This clinical trial is one of three clinical trials of the European-Commission (FP7)-funded "LENA" (Labeling of Enalapril from Neonates up to Adolescents) project: 50 children with heart failure due to dilated cardiomyopathy (LENA-Work Package (WP) 08 Trial) and 50 children with heart failure due to congenital heart disease (LENA-WP09 Trial) get treated with an optimal dose of enalapril ODMTs for up to 8 weeks after thorough, individualised titration and get invited to join the 10 months Safety Follow-up Study (LENA-WP10 Trial).

In this WP08 Trial children between 1 month and less than 12 years, naive to enalapril treatment or switched from an Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme (ACE)-Inhibitor pre-treatment, receive an Initial Dose to investigate the reaction over 8 hours before a decision on the first dose is made. Always up to 7 days later a next higher dose is given at the hospital, the patient is supervised for 4 and then always 2 hours before a decision on the prescribed dose for the next dosing period is made. In this study protocol a target dose similar to the adult target dose (20 mg of Enalapril in a 70 year old adult result in 0.282 mg/kg/day enalapril) is defined. Enalapril ODMTs of 0.25 mg and 1 mg are available to allow for an individual dose titration scheme.

Weight-dependently, pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamic (PD) data are collected once in a full PK/PD day over 12, respectively 6 hours, and single PK/PD samples at each Dose Titration Visit and each bi-weekly Study Control Visit until the Last Visit after 8 weeks of treatment. Blood pressure and renal monitoring is performed at each visit before deciding on the dose level for the next treatment period.

Pharmacogenomics and metabolomics exploratory studies are added as a sub-study to better understand the underlying disease, its progression as well as the impact of ACE-inhibition on cardiac outcome and renal function. ;

Study Design

Endpoint Classification: Pharmacokinetics/Dynamics Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cardiomyopathies
• Cardiomyopathy, Dilated
• Dilated Cardiomyopathy
• Heart Failure

• NCT number: NCT02652728
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Ethicare GmbH
• Contact: Stephanie Laeer, Prof,MD,PhD
• Phone: +49 211 8110740
• Email: Stephanie.Laeer@uni-duesseldorf.de
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: Phase 2/Phase 3
• Start date: January 2016
• Completion date: June 2017