Study to Evaluate OXERVATE™ in Patients With Stage 1 Neurotrophic Keratitis (DEFENDO)

June 23, 2023 updated by: Dompé Farmaceutici S.p.A

An 8-week, Multicenter, Open Label, Prospective Study With 24 Weeks of Follow-up to Evaluate Safety and Efficacy of OXERVATE™ 0.002% (20 mcg/mL) Cenegermin-bkbj Ophthalmic Solution in Patients With Stage 1 Neurotrophic Keratitis (NK)

This study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of OXERVATE™ 0.002% (20 mcg/mL) cenegermin-bkbj ophthalmic solution in patients with Stage 1 neurotrophic keratitis (NK).

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

37

Phase

  • Phase 4

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

  • United States
    • California
      • San Diego, California, United States, 92122
        • San Diego
    • Kentucky
      • Edgewood, Kentucky, United States, 41017
        • Edgewood
    • Massachusetts
      • Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02111
        • Boston
    • Missouri
      • Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, 63131
        • Saint Louis
    • Pennsylvania
      • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
        • Philadelphia

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

16 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Male or female aged ≥ 18 years.
  2. Patients with Stage 1 NK defined by the Mackie criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Evidence of an active ocular infection (bacterial, viral, protozoal) in either eye.
  2. Have current or history of conditions that may confound the study data including but not limited to Ocular Cicatricial Pemphigoid (OCP), Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD), neuromyelitis optica, uncontrolled dry eye, and Steven Johnson's syndrome.
  3. History of severe systemic allergy or severe ocular allergy (including seasonal conjunctivitis expected during the subject's participation in the trial) or chronic conjunctivitis and/or keratitis other than dry eye disease.
  4. Patients with severe vision loss with no potential for visual improvement in the study eye, in the opinion of the investigator, or if the subject is deemed legally blind.
  5. Ocular surgery or elective ocular surgery expected during participation in the trial.
  6. Patients with eyelid abnormality that may alter eyelid function including but not limited to Blepharospasm, Cerebrovascular accident, entropion, ectropion, floppy lid syndrome.

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: Treatment
  • Allocation: N/A
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: OXERVATE™ 0.002% (20 mcg/mL) cenegermin-bkbj
Drug: cenegermin-bkbj
Cenegermin-bkbj ophthalmic solution administered as one drop in affected eye(s) every 2 hours 6 times daily for 8 weeks
Other Names:
  • OXERVATE™ 0.002% (20 mcg/mL) cenegermin-bkbj ophthalmic solution

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Corneal Epithelial Healing
Time Frame: Week 8
Percentage of patients who experience corneal epithelial healing. Corneal epithelial healing was defined by the central reading center as the absence of persistent epithelial staining abnormalities related to disease.
Week 8

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Dompé Farmaceutici S.p.A

Collaborators

Dompé US

Investigators

  • Study Chair: Flavio Mantelli, MD, PhD, Domp Farmaceutici SpA

Publications and helpful links

The person responsible for entering information about the study voluntarily provides these publications. These may be about anything related to the study.

General Publications

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

September 9, 2020

Primary Completion (Actual)

September 30, 2021

Study Completion (Actual)

March 30, 2022

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

July 21, 2020

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

July 23, 2020

First Posted (Actual)

July 24, 2020

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

June 29, 2023

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

June 23, 2023

Last Verified

June 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • NGF0120

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

Yes

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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