Safety and Pharmacokinetics Study of E2007 to Treat Partial and Generalised Seizures in People With Epilepsy

A Randomised, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study of the Tolerability, Safety and Pharmacokinetics of E2007 in Epileptic Patients With Partial and Generalised Seizures

The objectives of this study were to assess the tolerability and safety of E2007 in patients with refractory partial or generalised seizures and to assess the pharmacokinetics of E2007 in epileptic patients receiving at least one concomitant anti-epileptic drug.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Epilepsy
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: E2007; Drug: E2007; Drug: Placebo

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 18
• Phase: Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Germany
  • Hennigsdorf, Germany
    • 3ClinicalResearch AG

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 65 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria

A patient who met the following inclusion criteria was eligible to participate in the study:

1. Males or females with simple or complex partial seizures with or without secondary generalization, or primary generalized tonic-clonic seizures according to the International League against Epilepsy classification. Patient records were to document the frequency of seizure.
2. Age: 18 to 65 years.
3. Race: any.
4. Patients receiving up to two additional anti-epileptic medications at doses that were stable for at least the four weeks immediately preceding baseline.
5. Patients willing and able to co-operate with the study procedures including completion of patient diaries.
6. Patients living at home with a partner or carer able to monitor compliance.
7. Patients giving informed consent to participate in the study.

Exclusion Criteria

A patient who met the following exclusion criteria was not eligible to participate in the study:

1. Pregnant or lactating women.
2. Women of childbearing potential unless (1) surgically sterile or (2) practicing effective contraception (eg, abstinence, IUD or barrier method plus hormonal method) and having a negative serum beta-HCG result at screening and being willing to remain on the current form of contraception for the duration of the study. Postmenopausal women could be included but were to have been amenorrhoeic for at least 12 months to be considered as not being of child-bearing potential.
3. Fertile men not willing to use reliable contraception or with partners not willing to use reliable contraception.
4. Patients with status epilepticus within the past 24 months.
5. Patients with unstable abnormalities of the hepatic, renal, cardiovascular, respiratory, abdominal, haematological, endocrine or metabolic systems which might complicate assessment of the tolerability of the study medication.
6. Patients with significantly elevated liver enzymes (abnormal bilirubin level, or serum transaminase levels more than 1.5 times the upper limit of normal).
7. Patients taking drugs other than anti-epileptic agents which induce the enzyme cytochrome P450 3A4 (since these might reduce the plasma concentration of E2007), including dexamethasone, rifabutin, rifampacin, St John's Wort.
8. Patients with past or present drug or alcohol abuse.
9. Patients with unstable psychiatric illness.
10. Patients who had received an investigational drug within the three months before baseline.
11. Patients without a reliable partner or carer.
12. Patients with any condition which would make the patient, in the opinion of the investigator, unsuitable for the study.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

Number of Arms

3

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: E2007 1 mg; Tablet, once daily to be taken in the morning by mouth, one hour before breakfast, with a glass of water.	Drug: E2007; 1 mg of E2007 was administered by mouth once daily.; Drug: E2007; 2 mg of E2007 was administered by mouth once daily.
Experimental: E2007 2 mg; Tablet, once daily to be taken in the morning by mouth, one hour before breakfast, with a glass of water.	Drug: E2007; 1 mg of E2007 was administered by mouth once daily.; Drug: E2007; 2 mg of E2007 was administered by mouth once daily.
Placebo Comparator: Placebo; Tablet, once daily to be taken in the morning, one hour before breakfast, with a glass of water.	Drug: Placebo; Placebo once daily of oral tablet formulation to be taken in the morning, one hour before breakfast, with a glass of water.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of participants with Treatment Emergent Adverse Events (TEAEs)	The TEAEs were defined as those Adverse Events (AEs) that start on or after the first dose of the treatment until the end of the study. AEs were classified by the investigator as 'not related', 'possibly related' or 'probably related'.	From administration of first dose of study drug up until 42 days.
Clinical Global Impression of Tolerability (CGIT)	The investigator's global impressions of the tolerability of the study treatment was based on a five point scale: 1 - very good, 2 - good, 3 - moderate, 4 - poor, and 5 - very poor.	Day 28
Pharmacokinetic Parameter: Area Under the Curve (AUC)(0-24hr) of E2007	Standard pharmacokinetic parameters for E2007 were derived from plasma drug concentrations in epileptic participants. A measure of systemic drug exposure over 24 hours, which is obtained by collecting a series of blood samples and measuring the concentrations of drug in each sample.	Day 1 and Day 14
Pharmacokinetic Parameter: Cmax (Maximum Observed Plasma Concentration) of E2007	Standard pharmacokinetic parameters for E2007 were derived from plasma drug concentrations in epileptic participants. The maximum concentration of a drug observed after its administration.	Day 1 and Day 14
Pharmacokinetic Parameter: Tmax (Time to Maximum Concentration) of E2007	Standard pharmacokinetic parameters for E2007 were derived from plasma drug concentrations in epileptic participants. The time after dosing when a drug attains its highest measurable concentration (Cmax).	Day 1 and Day 14
Pharmacokinetic Parameter: Css,min (Minimum Steady State Plasma Concentration) of E2007	Standard pharmacokinetic parameters for E2007 were derived from plasma drug concentrations in epileptic participants. Lowest plasma concentration within a steady-state dosing interval.	Day 14
Pharmacokinetic Parameter: Cav (Average Plasma Concentration) of E2007	Standard pharmacokinetic parameters for E2007 were derived from plasma drug concentrations in epileptic participants.	Day 14
Pharmacokinetic Parameter: Peak-to-trough Fluctuation (PTF) of E2007	Standard pharmacokinetic parameters for E2007 were derived from plasma drug concentrations in epileptic participants.	Day 14
Pharmacokinetic Parameter: Observed Accumulation Ratio (Rac) of E2007	Standard pharmacokinetic parameters for E2007 were derived from plasma drug concentrations in epileptic participants.	Day 14

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change from Baseline of Bond and Lader Scale	The Bond and Lader visual analogue mood scale (VAMS) had a score from 0 - 100; a higher score represented worsening of the participants condition attributed to 3 factors, (1) Anxiety (e.g., calmness), (2) Sedation (e.g., alertness, (3) Dysphoria (e.g., contentedness). The change was visit minus baseline.	Baseline, Day 28 and Day 42
Change from Baseline of Peak Saccadic Velocity (PSV)	Saccadic velocity is the rate of eye movement in response to stimulus. The saccadic eye movement was used to allow comparison of any sedative effects seen.	Baseline, Day 28, Day 42
Number of Particpants receiving other Anti-epileptic agents During Treatment		Day 1 and Day 14
Percent Change from Baseline of Failed Saccades	Failed saccades is stimulus resulting in no eye movement above a defined threshold within a specified time.	Baseline, Day 28, Day 42
Mean trough concentrations of E2007		Day 7, Day 21, and Day 28
Number of seizures		Baseline (Day-1) to Day 42
The Clinical Global Impression of Change		Day 28

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Eisai Co., Ltd.

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Maguire M. Response to "Perampanel and pregnancy: Could experience be a gloomy lantern that does not even illuminate its bearer?". Epilepsy Behav. 2022 Apr;129:108654. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2022.108654. Epub 2022 Mar 16. No abstract available.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): February 14, 2003
• Primary Completion (Actual): August 6, 2003
• Study Completion (Actual): August 6, 2003

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 31, 2015
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 17, 2018
• First Posted (Actual): December 19, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): December 19, 2018
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 17, 2018
• Last Verified: November 1, 2015

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Epilepsy; partial seizures; E2007; generalized seizures
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Brain Diseases; Central Nervous System Diseases; Nervous System Diseases; Neurologic Manifestations; Epilepsy; Seizures
• Other Study ID Numbers: E2007-E049-203