Efficacy and Tolerability of Erenumab in the Prophylactic Treatment of Persistent Post-Traumatic Headache

An Open Label Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Tolerability of Erenumab in the Prophylactic Treatment of Persistent Headache Attributed to Mild Traumatic Injury to the Head

An exploratory open-label study of PPTH patients to study the efficacy and tolerability of erenumab in the prophylactic treatment of persistent headache attributed to mild traumatic injury to the head. Approximately 100 subjects will be included to erenumab 140 mg. Patients who have participated in study with prior provocation (Ethics Committee of the Capital Region of Denmark (H-1801147 and H-18050498) and who have consented to be contacted will primarily be included. The study will begin February 2019 and is expected to last one year. Patients responding to advertisement (see add) will be contacted by phone.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Post-Concussion Syndrome; Mild Traumatic Brain Injury; Post-Traumatic Headache
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: AMG 334

Detailed Description

The reasons and justification of choosing an open-label design are the following:

1. To date, there are no evidence for prophylactic drugs treating post-traumatic headache. Post-traumatic headache patients are notoriously known to be refractory to prophylactic treatment and have usually tried several prophylactic drugs such as amitriptylin, which is recommended as a prophylactic drug in migraine and chronic tension-type headache, and other drugs developed for the treatment of primary headache disorders. First step is therefore to show if there is an effect at all following erenumab treatment in these refractory PPTH patients.
2. The refractory nature of PPTH will lower the bias that could occur through placebo effects.
3. The treatment period is also quite long, and the endpoint is assessed in the last month of treatment, which will also minimize a placebo effect.
4. Furthermore, this relatively small exploratory open label study is needed to show if there is an effect of erenumab in post-traumatic headache at all and what this effect is, before initiating larger multicenter double-blind studies in this patient group.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 100
• Phase: Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Denmark
  • Copenhagen
    • Glostrup, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2600
      • Danish Headache Center

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:

• Men and women between 18 - 65 years who suffer from PPTH following a concussion / mild traumatic brain injury more than 12 months ago.
• Fertile women must use safe contraceptives and present with a negative u-HCG on the experimental day. Safe contraceptives are defined as intra-uterine devices, contraceptive pills or implants and surgical sterilization.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pre-trauma primary headache disorders, including tension-type headache > 1 days/months
• Medication-overuse headache
• Whiplash injury
• Cardiovascular disease of any kind, including cerebrovascular disease
• Hypertension on the experimental day (systolic blood pressure > 150 mmHg and/or diastolic blood pressure > 100 mmHg)
• Hypotension on the experimental day (systolic blood pressure < 90 mmHg and/or diastolic blood pressure < 50 mmHg)
• Pre-trauma psychiatric disorder of any kind - unless effectively treated
• Anamnestic or clinical symptoms of any kind that are deemed relevant for study participation by the physician who examines the patient
• Pregnant or breastfeeding, or is a female expecting to conceive during the study,
• including through 4 weeks after the last dose of erenumab
• Female subject of childbearing potential who is unwilling to use an acceptable

• Method of effective contraception during treatment through 4 weeks after the last dose of erenumab. Acceptable methods of effective birth control include not having intercourse (true abstinence, when this is in line with the preferred and usual lifestyle of the subject), hormonal birth control methods (pills, shots/injections, implants, or patches), intrauterine devices, surgical contraceptive methods (vasectomy with medical assessment of the surgical success of this procedure or bilateral tubal ligation), or two barrier methods (each partner must use one barrier method) with spermicide - males must use a condom with spermicide; females must choose either a diaphragm with spermicide, OR cervical cap with spermicide, OR contraceptive sponge with spermicide. Female subjects not of childbearing potential are defined as any female who: is post-menopausal by history, defined as:

  • Age ≥ 55 years with cessation of menses for 12 or more months, OR
  • Age < 55 years but no spontaneous menses for at least 2 years, OR

  • Age < 55 years and spontaneous menses within the past 1 year, but currently amenorrheic (eg, spontaneous or secondary to hysterectomy), AND with postmenopausal gonadotropin levels (luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone levels > 40 IU/L) or postmenopausal estradiol levels (< 5 ng/dL) or according to the definition of "postmenopausal range" for the laboratory involved. OR

    • Underwent bilateral oophorectomy OR
    • Underwent hysterectomy OR
    • Underwent bilateral salpingectomy
• Known sensitivity to any component of erenumab
• Previously randomized into an erenumab study
• Member of investigational site staff or relative of the investigator
• Unlikely to be able to complete all protocol required study visits or procedures, and/or to comply with all required study procedures to the best of the subject's and investigator's knowledge

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: TREATMENT
• Allocation: NA
• Interventional Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Masking: NONE

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: Erenumab; 100 subjects with persistent post-traumatic headache will be allocated to receive monthly subcutaneous injections of 140 mg erenumab at three time points (week 0, week 4, week 8)	Drug: AMG 334; 100 subjects with persistent post-traumatic headache will be allocated to receive monthly subcutaneous injections of 140 mg erenumab at three time points (week 0, week 4, week 8); Other Names: Erenumab

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Effect of Erenumab on Headache Days with Moderate or Severe Intensity	To evaluate the effect of erenumab on change in the monthly average number of headache days with moderate or severe intensity from baseline to week 9-12 in patients with persistent post-traumatic headache (PPTH). The assessment will be made using a headache diary.	12 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Erenumab on number of Headache Days	To evaluate the effect of erenumab on change in the monthly average number of headache days from baseline to week 9-12 in PPTH patients. The assessment will be made using a headache diary.	12 weeks
Proportion of Patient reaching at least 75% reduction in monthly average number of headache days	To evaluate the proportion of patients reaching at least 75% reduction in the monthly average number of headache days of any severity (Time frame: baseline - week 12). The assessment will be made using a headache diary.	12 weeks
Proportion of Patient reaching at least 50% reduction in monthly average number of headache days	To evaluate the proportion of patients reaching at least 50% reduction in the monthly average number of headache days of any severity (Time frame: baseline - week 12). The assessment will be made using a headache diary.	12 weeks
Proportion of Patient reaching at least 25% reduction in monthly average number of headache days	To evaluate the proportion of patients reaching at least 25% reduction in the monthly average number of headache days of any severity (Time frame: baseline - week 12). The assessment will be made using a headache diary.	12 weeks
Headache Impact Test (HIT-6)	To evaluate the mean change in disability score, as measured by the 6-item Headache Impact Test (HIT-6) from baseline - week 12. HIT-6 consits of six items and is a global measure of adverse headache impact to assess headache severity in the previous month and change in a patient's clinical status over a short period of time. Each of the 6 questions is responded to using 1 of 5 response categories: "never," "rarely,""sometimes," "very often," or "always." For each HIT-6 item, 6, 8, 10, 11, or 13 points, respectively, are assigned to the response provided. Subjects will complete the HIT-6 monthly at each clinical visit.	12 weeks
Tolerability of Erenumab will be assessed by recording number and type of adverse events	To evaluate the tolerability of erenumab. Tolerability will be assessed by recording number and type of adverse events at each follow-up visit.	12 weeks

Other Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
CGRP induced change in AUC in responders versus non-responders*	* based on data from patients involved in the CGRP provocation (Ethics Committee of the Capital Region of Denmark (H-1801147 and H-18050498). Response is defined as patients reaching at least 50% reduction in the monthly average number of headache days of any severity from baseline to week 9-12	12 weeks
CGRP induced incidence of exacerbations in responders versus non-responders*	* based on data from patients involved in the CGRP provocation (Ethics Committee of the Capital Region of Denmark (H-1801147 and H-18050498). Response is defined as patients reaching at least 50% reduction in the monthly average number of headache days of any severity from baseline to week 9-12	12 weeks
CGRP induced change in AUC* correlated to change in number of headache days from baseline - week 9-12	* based on data from patients involved in the CGRP provocation (Ethics Committee of the Capital Region of Denmark (H-1801147 and H-18050498). Response is defined as patients reaching at least 50% reduction in the monthly average number of headache days of any severity from baseline to week 9-12	12 weeks
Headache phenotype* in responders versus non-responders	*PPTH patients will be divided into patients with a migraine phenotype or a primarily tension-type headache phenotype. Headache phenotype will be assessed using a semi-structured interview.	12 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Danish Headache Center
• Collaborators: Novartis; Amgen

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Ashina H, Iljazi A, Al-Khazali HM, Eigenbrodt AK, Larsen EL, Andersen AM, Hansen KJ, Brauner KB, Morch-Jessen T, Chaudhry B, Antic S, Christensen CE, Ashina M, Amin FM, Schytz HW. Efficacy, tolerability, and safety of erenumab for the preventive treatment of persistent post-traumatic headache attributed to mild traumatic brain injury: an open-label study. J Headache Pain. 2020 Jun 3;21(1):62. doi: 10.1186/s10194-020-01136-z.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (ACTUAL): April 5, 2019
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): December 31, 2019
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): December 31, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 17, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 3, 2019
• First Posted (ACTUAL): June 4, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): February 10, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 7, 2020
• Last Verified: February 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Brain Diseases; Central Nervous System Diseases; Nervous System Diseases; Pain; Neurologic Manifestations; Wounds and Injuries; Craniocerebral Trauma; Trauma, Nervous System; Headache Disorders; Head Injuries, Closed; Wounds, Nonpenetrating; Headache Disorders, Secondary; Brain Injuries; Brain Injuries, Traumatic; Headache; Post-Concussion Syndrome; Brain Concussion; Post-Traumatic Headache; Physiological Effects of Drugs; Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action; Peripheral Nervous System Agents; Analgesics; Sensory System Agents; Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide Receptor Antagonists; Erenumab
• Other Study ID Numbers: 2018-003943-46

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: Yes
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: Yes