An Efficacy and Safety Study of Sonazoid™ and SonoVue® in Participants With Focal Liver Lesions, Undergoing Pre- and Post-Contrast Ultrasound Imaging

October 4, 2018 updated by: GE Healthcare

A Phase 3 Multicentre, Randomised, Comparative Study of the Efficacy and Safety of the Ultrasound Contrast Agents Sonazoid™ and SonoVue® in Subjects With Focal Liver Lesions Undergoing Pre- and Post-Contrast Ultrasound Imaging

The purpose of this study is to compare the efficacy of Sonazoid™ and SonoVue® in participants with focal liver lesions (FLLs), by comparing pre-and post-contrast ultrasound examination findings with regard to various aspects of lesion diagnosis including diagnosis as benign versus malignant, specific lesion diagnosis, confidence in diagnosis, and quality of delineation of lesion-related blood vessels (from images obtained during vascular imaging) and detection of lesion presence and quality of delineation of the whole liver (from images obtained during whole liver imaging).

Study Overview

Status

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Completed

Conditions

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Intervention / Treatment

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Study Type

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Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

Enrollment

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424

Phase

Phase

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  • Phase 3

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • China
    • Beijing
      • Dongcheng, Beijing, China, 100730
        • Peking Union Medical College Hospital, East Campus: No.1 Shuaifuyuan Wangfujing
      • Haidan, Beijing, China, 100853
        • Chinese PLA General Hospital, No. 28 Fuxing Road
      • Xicheng, Beijing, China, 100032
        • Peking Union Medical College Hospital, West Campus: No. 41 Damucang Hutong
    • Guangdong
      • Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, 510080
        • The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun-Yat sen University, No. 58 Zhongshan Second Road
      • Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, 510120
        • The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhongshan University, No. 107 Yanjiang West Road
    • Shanghai
      • Hongkou, Shanghai, China, 200080
        • Shanghai First Hospital, North Campus: No. 100 Haining Road
      • Songjiang, Shanghai, China, 201620
        • Shanghai First Hospital, South Campus: No.650 New Songjiang Road
      • Xuhui, Shanghai, China, 200032
        • Zhongshan Hospital Fudan University, No. 180 Fenglin Road
      • Xuhui, Shanghai, China, 200040
        • Shanghai Hua Shan Hospital, No. 12 Wulumuqi Middle Road
      • Xuhui, Shanghai, China, 200233
        • Shanghai Sixth Hospital, No. 600 Yishan Road
      • Zhabei, Shanghai, China, 200072
        • Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, No. 301 Yanchang Middle Road
  • Korea, Republic of
      • Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 110-744
        • Seoul National University Hospital, 101, Daehak-Ro, Jongno-Gu
      • Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 137-701
        • Seoul St Mary's Hospital, 222 Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu
  • Taiwan
      • Taipei, Taiwan, 100
        • National Taiwan University Hospital, No. 7 Chung-Shan South Road
      • Taipei, Taiwan, 10449
        • Mackay Memorial Hospital, No. 92, Sec. 2 Zhongshan N. Road
      • Taipei, Taiwan, 10650
        • Cathay General Hospital, No. 280 Jen-Ai Road, Sec. 4
      • Taipei, Taiwan, 112
        • Taipei Veterans General Hospital, No. 201 Shih-Pai Road, Sec. 2
    • Yunlin County
      • Douliu, Yunlin County, Taiwan
        • National Taiwan University Hospital - Yunlin Branch, No. 579, Sec. 2 Yunlin Road

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

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Ages Eligible for Study

16 years to 76 years (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria: Participants may be included in the study if they meet all of the following criteria:

  • Participant has at least 1 untreated focal liver lesions (FLL) but =<8 lesions (excluding cysts) <10 centimeter (cm) in diameter confirmed in a diagnostic examination performed in the past month (or past 3 months if lesion is benign) that can be visualised by non- contrast-enhanced (CE) ultrasound
  • Participant has had a dynamic CE-computed tomography (CE-CT) or CE-magnetic resonance imaging (CE-MRI) examination within the past month or is scheduled to have one in the month following inclusion in the study and the original images (or copies thereof) are/will be available. (This inclusion criterion does not apply for participants enrolled as training cases. Investigators will be asked to submit standard of truth/ reference diagnosis for training cases whenever possible, since the cases may be used for training and testing the blinded readers prior to the blinded read)
  • Participant is a 20- to 80-year-old inpatient or outpatient referred for an ultrasound examination of the liver
  • Participant is able and willing to comply with study procedures and will give their signed and dated informed consent
  • The participant, if female, is either surgically sterile (has had a documented bilateral oophorectomy and/or documented hysterectomy), postmenopausal (cessation of menses for more than 1 year), or non-lactating, or if of childbearing potential the results of a serum or urine human chorionic gonadotropin pregnancy test, performed on the day of investigational medicinal product (IMP) administration (with the result known before IMP administration), are negative

Exclusion Criteria:

  • The participant has an acute clinically fatal condition (i.e., not expected to survive for at least 6 months)
  • The participant has previously received Sonazoid™ or has received SonoVue® within the past 30 days
  • The participant has undergone or is undergoing systemic or loco-regional chemotherapy, or radiation therapy
  • The participant is participating in another clinical trial with an unregistered medicinal product, or less than 30 days have passed since completing participation in such a trial
  • The participant has a history of allergies to eggs or egg products (i.e., manifested by full body rash, respiratory difficulty, oral or laryngeal swelling, hypotension or shock)
  • The participant has known hypersensitivity to sulphur hexafluoride or to any of the components of SonoVue®
  • The participant has undergone or plans to undergo liver biopsy or surgery within the 24 hours before or after this examination
  • The participant has undergone or plans to undergo an examination with a contrast agent (i.e., iodinated x-ray contrast agent, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent or another ultrasound contrast agent) within the 24 hours before or after this examination
  • The participant is considered to be unsuitable to participate in the study by the investigator
  • The participant is known to have a right-to-left shunt, severe pulmonary hypertension (pulmonary artery pressure >90 millimeter of mercury (mmHg) or uncontrolled systemic hypertension
  • The participant has a recent acute coronary syndrome or clinically unstable ischaemic cardiac disease, including: evolving or ongoing myocardial infarction, typical angina at rest within the last 7 days, significant worsening of cardiac symptoms within the last 7 days, recent coronary artery intervention or other factors suggesting clinical instability (e.g., recent deterioration of electrocardiogram [ECG], laboratory or clinical findings), acute cardiac failure, Class III/IV cardiac failure, or severe rhythm disorders
  • The participant has adult respiratory distress syndrome, severe emphysema, pulmonary vasculitis, or a history of pulmonary emboli
  • The participant has known thrombosis within the liver, portal, or mesenteric veins

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Participant Group / Arm

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Intervention / Treatment

Intervention / Treatment

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Experimental: Sonazoid™
Participants will receive single intravenous (I.V) bolus injection of Sonazoid™ 0.12 microliter (µL) microbubbles (MB)/kilogram (kg) body weight.
Drug: Sonazoid™
Single Dose of Sonazoid™ 0.12 µL MB/kg as I.V. injection.
Active Comparator: SonoVue®
Participants will receive single I.V bolus injection of SonoVue® 2.4 milliliter (mL).
Drug: SonoVue®
Single Dose of SonoVue® 2.4 mL as I.V. injection.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

In a clinical study's protocol, the planned outcome measure that is the most important for evaluating the effect of an intervention/treatment. Most clinical studies have one primary outcome measure, but some have more than one.
Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Percentage of Participants With Accuracy Improvement in Post-Contrast Versus Pre-Contrast Ultrasound (US) Examination for Diagnosis of the Target Lesion as Malignant or Benign Against the Reference Diagnosis (RD)/Standard of Truth
Time Frame: Pre-administration up to 15 minutes post-administration
Accuracy improvement was calculated by the number of participants with improved diagnoses from the pre-contrast diagnosis to the post-contrast diagnosis divided by the total number of participants, multiplied by 100. Assessments were done by 3 blinded readers. Efficacy population which included all participants who received Sonazoid™ or SonoVue®, for whom pre-contrast & post-contrast images were recorded, & for whom there was a reference standard contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CECT)/contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (CE-MRI) examination or biopsy.
Pre-administration up to 15 minutes post-administration

Secondary Outcome Measures

Secondary Outcome Measures

In a clinical study's protocol, a planned outcome measure that is not as important as the primary outcome measure for evaluating the effect of an intervention but is still of interest. Most clinical studies have more than one secondary outcome measure.
Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Number of Lesions Detected by Post-Contrast US Relative to Number of Lesions Detected by Pre-Contrast US (Both by Blinded Readers[BR]) and Number of Lesions Detected by Post-Contrast US (by BR) Relative to Number of Lesions Detected by RD (Investigators)
Time Frame: Pre-administration up to 15 minutes post-administration
For the cases that can be assessed by the blinded readers both pre- and post-contrast, differences were calculated between the Sonazoid™ and SonoVue® groups in the number of lesions detected during whole-liver imaging (post-contrast minus pre-contrast). The differences were also calculated between the Sonazoid™ and SonoVue® groups in the number of lesions (post-contrast minus reference diagnosis) detected during whole-liver imaging.
Pre-administration up to 15 minutes post-administration
Number of Participants With Diagnostic Confidence (Evaluated by Blinded Readers) in Pre-Contrast and Post-Contrast Ultrasound Examination Results
Time Frame: Pre-administration up to 15 minutes post-administration
Confidence in diagnoses from the pre- and post-contrast ultrasound examinations was evaluated based on 4-point scale: 0-Unknown (cannot make a judgement on level of confidence), 1- Not confident (another examination was required), 2- Probable (Would have more confidence if another diagnostic imaging test such as MRI or CT was performed), 3- Definite (Sufficient confidence to the extent that another diagnostic imaging test such as MRI or CT was unnecessary).
Pre-administration up to 15 minutes post-administration
Percentage of Participants With Accuracy Improvement in Post-contrast Versus Pre-contrast Ultrasound Examination for Lesion-Specific Diagnoses of the Target Lesion Against the Reference Diagnosis/Standard of Truth
Time Frame: Pre-administration up to 15 minutes post-administration
The accuracy improvement was calculated by the number of participants with improved diagnoses from the pre-contrast diagnosis to the post-contrast diagnosis divided by the total number of participants, multiplied by 100. Assessment was performed by 3 blinded readers.
Pre-administration up to 15 minutes post-administration

Collaborators and Investigators

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Sponsor

Sponsor

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GE Healthcare

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

Study Start

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May 11, 2014

Primary Completion (Actual)

Primary Completion

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April 9, 2015

Study Completion (Actual)

Study Completion

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April 9, 2015

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

First Submitted

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November 3, 2017

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

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November 3, 2017

First Posted (Actual)

First Posted

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November 7, 2017

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

Last Update Posted

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October 31, 2018

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

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October 4, 2018

Last Verified

Last Verified

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October 1, 2018

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Other Study ID Numbers

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  • GE-045-002 (Other Identifier: GE HealthCare)

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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