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Status unknownNCT03380793Updated Dec 21, 2017

A Trial to Assess the Efficacy and Safety of Morinidazole in Patients With Appendicitis

A Phase 4 interventional study of morinidazole in Appendicitis, sponsored by Jiangsu Hansoh Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.. Status unknown at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 65 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2017-12-21.

Sponsored by Jiangsu Hansoh Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (part of Hansoh Pharmaceutical Group Company Limited) · Phase 4, Interventional, and Treatment

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Nov 2017), so the status shown — last known as Recruiting — may be out of date.

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 1 year 2 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Sep 2016, registered Nov 2017).
Phase
Phase 4
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
614
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 65 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

To assess the efficacy, safety, tissue distribution of target organ and Population Pharmacokinetic (PPK) of morinidazole and sodium chloride injection with surgery in patients with suppurative or gangrenous appendicitis

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Acute appendicitis is among the most common cause of acute abdominal pain. In patients with complicated acute appendicitis, postoperative, broad-spectrum antibiotics are always recommended. Metronidazole, a member of the nitroimidazole drug class, is included in the regimens recommended for improving anaerobic bacteria coverage. The sideeffects of metronidazole include a metallic taste, nausea, transient neutropenia, and peripheral neuropathy. Antimicrobial resistance to metronidazole has emerged after several decades of worldwide use of the drug. Morinidazole, a National Class I Antimicrobial, is a new type of third-generation nitroimidazole antimicrobial that is used for treating amoebiasis, trichomoniasis, and anaerobic bacterial infections, and which exhibits greater activity and less toxicity than metronidazole.

Morinidazole and Sodium Chloride Injection used in pelvic inflammatory disease or appendicitis cases had been approved by CFDA in 2014. This phase 4 study is to assess the efficacy, safety, tissue distribution of target organ and Population Pharmacokinetic (PPK) of morinidazole in patients with suppurative or gangrenous appendicitis.

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Conditions studied

  • Appendicitis

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In context

Appendicitis

419 studies on the registry are indexed under Appendicitis; 67 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 614 is above the median of 111 across 252 interventional studies indexed under Appendicitis.

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Lead sponsor

Jiangsu Hansoh Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. is the lead sponsor of 137 studies on the registry; 71 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 65 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • 18 and 65 years old
  • A diagnosis of suppurative or gangrenous appendicitis based on:

    1. right lower abdominal pain
    2. lower abdominal tenderness and/or rebound tenderness
    3. pyrexia (axillary temperature ≥ 37.5 °C), a WBC > 10*109/L on routine blood examination
    4. Voluntary signing of written

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • patients with an allergy to nitroimidazole
  • patients with a history of antibiotic therapy within the last 48 hours
  • patients with any condition likely to require broad spectrum antibiotics
  • patients who can not evaluate the efficacy or difficult to complete the desired course of treatment
  • and / or AST ≥ 1.5 times the , and / or serum creatinine ≥ the ULN
  • patients with severe systemic diseases likely to affect therapy (e.g., cardiovascular abnormalities, unstable angina, high blood pressure, severe neuropathy, or epilepsy)
  • patients with other diseases or use other drugs which may interfere with the efficacy or safety of the drug
  • patients who participated other clinical trials within 6 months before the start of the trial
  • Pregnant women, breastfeeding women, women of childbearing age without effective
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(5)

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Metastases

Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.

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ALT and AST (liver enzymes)

Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.

Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.

ULN (upper limit of normal)

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“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.

Contraception

Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 4
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
614 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    morinidazole

    morinidazole and sodium chloride injection (500 mg intravenous, twice daily for 5-7 days) with aztreonam and (or) etimicin.

    Drug: morinidazole

Interventions

  • Drugmorinidazole

    morinidazole and sodium chloride injection (500 mg intravenous, twice daily for 5-7 days) with aztreonam and (or) etimicin.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Clinical cure Rate

    Clinical cure Rate (according to symptoms and signs) at 5-10 days post-therapy

    Time frame: 5-10 days

Secondary outcomes

  1. Bacteriological response(Bacterial elimination rate)

    Bacteriological response (on the first day post-therapy, at 5-10 days post-therapy)

    Time frame: 5-10 days

  2. Clinical cure Rate on the first day

    Clinical cure Rate(according to symptoms and signs)on the first day post-therapy

    Time frame: the first day

  3. Tissue distribution

    Tissue distribution of target organ(Tissue of the appendix)

    Time frame: 5-10 days

  4. PPK parameters

    Area under the plasma concentration versus time curve (AUC) of morinidazole

    Time frame: 5-10 days

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • PLA General Hospital
    Beijing, 100853, China
    Recruiting
    • Yun Tang · Contact13701393663
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Dec 21, 2017, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03380793
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Dec 21, 2017
Start date
Sep 2016
Primary completion
Oct 2018 (estimated)
Completion
Oct 2018 (estimated)
Last update
Dec 21, 2017

Study contacts

Yun Tang
Contact
13701393663

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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