Study of Atorvastatin and Its Effects in Clinical and Radiological Aspects in Patients With Moderate-to-Severe Thyroid Eye Disease (SEMAR-TED)

August 7, 2026 updated by: Banu Aji Dibyasakti

Adjunctive Atorvastatin in Moderate-to-severe Thyroid Eye Disease (SEMAR-TED: Structural, Biomarker Expression and Muscle Endpoints of Atorvastatin): Study Protocol for a Randomised, Open-label, Assessor-masked Controlled Trial

The trial tests the hypothesis that, in adults with active, moderate-to-severe Graves' orbitopathy, 24 weeks of oral atorvastatin 20 mg daily added to a standard 12-week course of intravenous methylprednisolone produces a greater reduction in extraocular muscle size than intravenous methylprednisolone alone, and that any such reduction is accompanied by lower expression of TSH receptor, IGF-1 receptor, PDGF receptor, PI3K/AKT and miR-155 transcripts, and higher expression of miR-146a. The prespecified direction for miR-146a follows its reported suppression in CD4+ T cells in active disease [26]. Reported directions of change are compartment-specific and not unanimous, so the transcript analyses are exploratory.

Study Overview

Status

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Not yet recruiting

Conditions

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Intervention / Treatment

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Study Type

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Interventional

Enrollment (Estimated)

Enrollment

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64

Phase

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  • Phase 1

Contacts and Locations

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Study Contact

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Study Contact Backup

Study Locations

  • Indonesia
    • Yogyakarta, Indonesia
      • Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Indonesia

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

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Ages Eligible for Study

  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Age 18 to 75 years inclusive
  • Graves' orbitopathy graded moderate-to-severe by EUGOGO criteria
  • Active disease, clinical activity score ≥ 3 of 7
  • Rehabilitative orbital decompression anticipated after completion of glucocorticoid therapy, on the usual clinical grounds
  • Able to attend weekly infusion visits and complete follow-up to week 48
  • Written informed consent given
  • For women of childbearing potential, agreement to use effective contraception until week 24

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Sight-threatening disease at screening: dysthyroid optic neuropathy or corneal breakdown
  • Any other autoimmune disease requiring systemic immunosuppresion
  • Known hypersensitivity to atorvastatin or to any statin
  • Current or recent (within 3 months) use of any lipid-lowering drug
  • Any contraindication to orbital decompression
  • Any independent indication for lipid-lowering therapy: established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, more than one cardiovascular risk factor (diabetes mellitus, hypertension, obesity), or LDL cholesterol ≥ 190 mg/dL
  • Systemic glucocorticoid or immunosuppressive treatment for orbitopathy within the preceding 3 months
  • Previous orbital irradiation or orbital surgery
  • Alanine or aspartate aminotransferase > 3 × upper limit of normal, or creatine kinase > 5 × upper limit of normal, at screening
  • Estimated glomerular filtration rate < 30 mL/min/1.73 m²
  • Pregnancy at screening (confirmed by a negative test before randomisation) or breastfeeding
  • Concomitant treatment with a strong CYP3A4 inhibitor
  • Any condition that, in the opinion of the investigator, would prevent completion of the trial

Study Plan

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How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Double

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Participant Group / Arm

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Intervention / Treatment

Intervention / Treatment

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Active Comparator: Methylprednisolone only
Experimental group recieve methylprednisolone injection 500 mg per week for six weeks followed by methylprednisolone 250 mg per weeks for following six weeks
Drug: methylprednisolone (IVMP)
Moderate-to-severe Graves' orbitopathy at a tertiary referral centre in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, will be allocated 1:1 to intravenous methylprednisolone (500 mg weekly for six weeks, then 250 mg weekly for six weeks)
Experimental: Methylprednisolone plus Atorvastatin
Experimental group recieve methylprednisolone injection 500 mg per week for six weeks followed by methylprednisolone 250 mg combined per week for following six weeks combined atorvastatin 20 mg per weeks for six months
Drug: methylprednisolone (IVMP)
Moderate-to-severe Graves' orbitopathy at a tertiary referral centre in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, will be allocated 1:1 to intravenous methylprednisolone (500 mg weekly for six weeks, then 250 mg weekly for six weeks)
Drug: Atorvastatin
Moderate-to-severe Graves' orbitopathy at a tertiary referral centre in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, will be allocated 1:1 to intravenous methylprednisolone (500 mg weekly for six weeks, then 250 mg weekly for six weeks) with oral atorvastatin 20 mg daily for 24 weeks.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

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Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Individual rectus muscle diameters
Time Frame: At the first week,12th week, and 24th week from starting point of treatment
The primary outcome is measuring the rectus muscle diameters using Coronal CT, per muscle, both orbits
At the first week,12th week, and 24th week from starting point of treatment

Secondary Outcome Measures

Secondary Outcome Measures

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Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Composite ocular response
Time Frame: At Week 24th

A participant is a responder if at least two of the five criteria below are met in the more affected eye, with no deterioration in any of them in either eye:

  1. reduction in clinical activity score of 2 points or more;
  2. reduction in proptosis of 2 mm or more, without an increase of 2 mm or more in the fellow eye;
  3. reduction in vertical palpebral fissure height of 2 mm or more, with the same proviso for the fellow eye;
  4. disappearance of diplopia, or improvement by at least one Gorman grade;
  5. improvement in best-corrected visual acuity of 0.1 logMAR or more, this being the step on the logMAR chart closest to the 0.2-decimal criterion used in STAGO.
At Week 24th
Clinical activity score
Time Frame: Baseline and every study visit to week 24

7-item EUGOGO scale, masked assessor

Score :

  • Minimum score 0 and maximum score 7 at first meeting
  • Maximum score 10 at follow up meeting Higher score has worse outcome
Baseline and every study visit to week 24
Exophthalmos, clinical
Time Frame: Baseline and every study visit to week 24
Measurement of clinic exophthalmos using Hertel exophthalmometer, fixed base setting, single masked assessor
Baseline and every study visit to week 24
Exophthalmos, radiological
Time Frame: Baseline, weeks 12, 24
Exophthalmos measured from Interzygomatic line to posterior corneal surface, axial CT
Baseline, weeks 12, 24
Vertical palpebral fissure height
Time Frame: Baseline and every study visit to week 24
Palpbral fissure height measured using millimetre ruler, primary position of gaze, masked assessor
Baseline and every study visit to week 24
Change in LDL cholesterol
Time Frame: Baseline, weeks 12, 24
Using the Enzymatic colorimetric assay; used in the prespecified mediation analysis
Baseline, weeks 12, 24
Orbital fat volume
Time Frame: Baseline, weeks 12, 24
Using Segmentation at -200 to -30 HU, ITK-SNAP v4.2.0
Baseline, weeks 12, 24
Transcript levels in peripheral blood
Time Frame: Baseline, weeks 12, 24
TSH-R, IGF-1R, PDGF-R, PI3K/AKT, miR-146a, miR-155; qRT-PCR, fold change relative to GAPDH for the messenger RNA targets and to U6 snRNA for the microRNA target
Baseline, weeks 12, 24
Transcript levels in orbital tissue
Time Frame: At decompression 24th week
TSH-R, IGF-1R, PDGF-R, PI3K/AKT, miR-146a, miR-155; qRT-PCR, fold change relative to GAPDH for the messenger RNA targets and to U6 snRNA for the microRNA targets; specimen taken at rehabilitative decompression
At decompression 24th week

Collaborators and Investigators

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Sponsor

Sponsor

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Banu Aji Dibyasakti

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Estimated)

Study Start

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August 30, 2026

Primary Completion (Estimated)

Primary Completion

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July 30, 2027

Study Completion (Estimated)

Study Completion

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September 30, 2027

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

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July 30, 2026

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

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August 7, 2026

First Posted (Actual)

First Posted

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August 13, 2026

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

Last Update Posted

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August 13, 2026

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

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August 7, 2026

Last Verified

Last Verified

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August 1, 2026

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Other Study ID Numbers

Other Study ID Numbers

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  • KE/FK/0253/EC/2025

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

IPD Plan Description

To keep the privacy of participants information

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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