Status:

COMPLETED

Study to Assess Bemiparin Pharmacokinetics in Renal Insufficiency and in the Elderly

Lead Sponsor:

Rovi Pharmaceuticals Laboratories

Conditions:

Renal Insufficiency

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

PHASE1

Brief Summary

Open pharmacokinetic study with 5 parallel groups and two treatment phases (bemiparin 3,500 IU multiple dose and bemiparin 115 IU/kg single dose). The bemiparin pharmacokinetic profile will be assesse...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Non-elderly healthy volunteers (Group I):
  • Male or female subjects aged between 18 and 65 years
  • body weight, clinical history, physical examination, vital signs (systolic and diastolic blood pressure, heart beat rate and body temperature), ECG and laboratory tests (hemogram and biochemistry) within normal range
  • without evidence of significant organic or psychiatric illness
  • who have accepted to participate in the study and have signed the written informed consent.
  • Patients with renal insufficiency (Groups II, III and IV):
  • Male or female subjects aged between 18 and 65 years, who will be assigned to one of the following groups according to renal function:
  • Group II: mild renal insufficiency (creatinine clearance \> 50 to 80 ml/min);
  • Group III: Moderate renal insufficiency (creatinine clearance: 30 to 50 ml/min);
  • Group IV: Severe renal insufficiency (creatinine clearance \< 30 ml/min). The degree of renal insufficiency will be calculated on the basis of determination of creatinine clearance measuring total urinary output over a 24-h period and serum creatinine levels. Urine samples will be collected no more than 2 weeks before the first experimental period.
  • Patients with renal insufficiency must have a stable renal function during the 3 months before their inclusion in the study.
  • They must have a body weight between 45 and 110 Kg.
  • They have to accept to participate in the study and have signed the written informed consent.
  • Elderly healthy volunteers (Group V):
  • Male or female subjects aged \> 65 years old who fulfill with the remaining inclusion criteria specified for non-elderly healthy volunteers.

Exclusion

  • Non-elderly healthy volunteers (Group I):
  • Previous history of alcoholism or drugs consumption
  • Important consumer of exciting drinks
  • Hypersensitivity, allergy, idiosyncrasy to medicines
  • Taking another medication four weeks before the initiation of the trial including medication without prescription and medicinal plants
  • Positive serology of hepatitis B, C or HIV virus
  • History or clinic evidence of concomitant disease
  • Familiar history of coagulation's disorders
  • surgery within the previous 6 months
  • Women who are pregnant or who are not using effective contra conceptive methods
  • Ethanol, cannabis, cocaine, amphetamine, benzodiazepin or opiate in urine
  • Current platelet count \< 100.000/mm3 or serum K \> 5,5 mEq/L
  • Any contraindication to bemiparin administration in order to authorized summary product characteristics
  • Healthy volunteers who are not participating in another clinical trial or have not done so in the past 2 months
  • To give blood in the four weeks before beginning of the trial
  • Patients with renal insufficiency or elderly healthy volunteers (Groups II, III, IV, V):
  • Previous history of alcoholism or drugs consumption
  • Important consumer of exciting drinks
  • Hypersensitivity, allergy, idiosyncrasy to medicines
  • Treatment with enzymatic inhibitors or inductors medicines
  • Administration with ASA of dosis \> 125 mg/day and/or NDAIs with half-life \> 20 hours or with high antiagregant effect during the previous ten days to the inclusion
  • Chronic hepatopatology
  • bilirubin levels \> 1,5 mg/dl and/or increment of AST/ALT levels twice higher than maximum limit of normality
  • prothrombin time 20% higher than maximun limit of normality and haemoglobine \< 8gr/dl or albumim levels \<3gr/dl
  • Previous history of acute infarction of myocardium, cardiac ischemic or arrhythmia
  • Acute illness in the previous week to the participation
  • Familiar history of coagulation's disorders
  • surgery within the previous 6 months
  • Women who are pregnant or who are not using effective contra conceptive methods
  • Ethanol, cannabis, cocaine, amphetamine, benzodiazepin or opiate in urine
  • Current platelet count \< 75.000/mm3 or serum K \> 6 mEq/L
  • Any contraindication to bemiparin administration in order to authorized summary product characteristics
  • Healthy volunteers who are not participating in another clinical trial or have not done so in the past 2 months
  • To give blood in the four weeks before beginning of the trial
  • Subjects in haemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

March 1 2006

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

March 1 2011

Estimated Enrollment :

60 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00413088

Start Date

March 1 2006

End Date

March 1 2011

Last Update

March 18 2011

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Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau and Fundació Puigvert

Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 08008