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CompletedNCT03430596Updated Jun 27, 2022

a Pilot Study of Pramipexole to Treat Extrapyramidal Symptoms Induced by Antipsychotics

An Early Phase 1 interventional study of Pramipexole and Trihexyphenidyl hydrochloride in Extrapyramidal Syndrome, sponsored by Shanghai Mental Health Center. Completed at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 65 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-06-27.

Sponsored by Shanghai Mental Health Center · Early Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Early Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
50
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 65 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This study is a pilot phased interventional clinical trial . The first stage will recruit 10 patients with antipsychotic induced extrapyramidal symptoms.The patients will take pramipexole for 8 weeks. The inital dose of pramipexole will be 0.375 mg/d, and the adjustment of drug dose will be depended on the the doctor's decision and patients' condition.

The second stage was a randomized, rater blindness and Antan controlled clinical study. Researchers will recruit another 40 patients with extrapyramidal symptoms (tradive dyskinesia will be excluded). The patients will randomly be divided into artane group or pramipexole group, and the efficacy and safety condition of pramipexole and artane for different kinds of EPS will be compared. The pramipexole group will have 20 cases, and 20 cases of artane group. The dose of pramipexole group group range from 0.375mg/d to 0.75mg/d dose .The dose of artane range from 2 mg/d to 4 mg/d,.The accurate drug doses can be adjusted by the doctor according to the patients' condition .

Researchers will evualate patients' symptom at baseline, after three days' of baseline, 2 weeks,4 weeks, 6 weeks and 8 weeks. The Simpson-Angus Scale(SAS) 、Barnes Akathisia Rating Scale(BARS),Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS), Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale(PANSS), Calgary Depression Scale for Schizophrenia(CDSS), Clinical Global Impression-severity of Illness Scale(CGI-S) will be evualated by the trained raters indicated as the drug's efficacy of the extrapyramidal symptoms and schizophrenia .The adverse events, laboratory parameters, vital signs, ECG will be recorded as the safety indicators of the study drugs.

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Conditions studied

  • Extrapyramidal Syndrome

Keywords

  • Extrapyramidal syndromes praminpexole pilot study
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Who can participate

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

Inclusion criteria

  1. Age from 18-65 years old, male or female
  2. Subjects who met DSM-IV-TR criteria for extrapyramidal symptoms
  3. Scored 1 (mild) on at least two SAS items or 2 (moderate) on one of the items Exclusion Criteria are considered as antipsychotic induced parkinson ; Scored at least 2 (mild) on the BARS global item are considered as antipsychotic induced akathisia
  4. Written informed consent provided by legal guardians or patients
  5. Understand and voluntarily participate in this trail

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

1 A history of severe nervous system disease or nervous system injury 2 A history of severe or unstable heart, liver, kidney, endocrine (including thyroid function), hematological (such as those with hemorrhagic tendency) condition 3 Subjects who have an imminent risk of suicideor who can be a threat to himself others which judged by investigator 4 Substance or alcohol dependence at enrolment 5 Pregnancy or lactation or willing to pregnant during the trial 6 Low compliance to the doctor 7 Subjects who can't take drug in time according to doctors' advice 8 scored (mild) on at least two AIMS items or 3 (moderate) on one of the items are considered as tardive dyskesia Withdrawl Criteria

  1. An adverse sffecr or serious adverse effect occured so that the intervention needs to be stopped
  2. Subjects with poor compliance or who didn't take drugs for 4 days
  3. Obvious plan violation ,or the safety codition and symptoms of the patients are deteriorating
  4. scored (mild) on at least two AIMS items or 3 (moderate) on one of the items are considered as tardive dyskesia
  5. Researcher's decision of the withdrawl of the subjects -
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Study design

Phase
Early Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Single (Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
50 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    pramipexole

    pramipexole ,flexible dose (0.375mg/d-0.75mg/d)

    Drug: Pramipexole

  • Active comparator
    Antan

    Antan,flexible dose (2-4mg/d)

    Drug: Trihexyphenidyl hydrochloride

Interventions

  • DrugPramipexole

    The dose of pramipexole range from 0.375mg/d to 0.75mg/d , The accurate dose of pramipexole can be adjusted by the patient's condition and tolerance .

    Also known as: SenForro

  • DrugTrihexyphenidyl hydrochloride

    he dose of Antan range from 2 mg/d to 4 mg/d , The accurate dose of pramipexole can be adjusted by the patient's condition and tolerance .

    Also known as: Antan

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. The change of SAS BARS AIMS from baseline

    To compare the condition of the extrapyramidal symptoms between two groups

    Time frame: 8 weeks

Secondary outcomes

  1. The change of PANSS CDSS CGI-S from baseline

    To compare the change of the symptoms of chziophrenia between two groups

    Time frame: 8 weeks

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Study locations

1 site
  • Shanghai Mental Health Center
    Shanghai, Shanghai 200030, China
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References and documents

Publications

  • Kelleher JP, Centorrino F, Huxley NA, Bates JA, Drake JK, Egli S, Baldessarini RJ. Pilot randomized, controlled trial of pramipexole to augment antipsychotic treatment. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol. 2012 Jun;22(6):415-8. doi: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2011.10.002. Epub 2011 Dec 7. PubMed 22153972 ↗
  • Kasper S, Barnas C, Heiden A, Volz HP, Laakmann G, Zeit H, Pfolz H. Pramipexole as adjunct to haloperidol in schizophrenia. Safety and efficacy. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol. 1997 Feb;7(1):65-70. doi: 10.1016/s0924-977x(96)00393-8. PubMed 9088887 ↗
  • Ferger B, Buck K, Shimasaki M, Koros E, Voehringer P, Buerger E. Continuous dopaminergic stimulation by pramipexole is effective to treat early morning akinesia in animal models of Parkinson's disease: A pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic study using in vivo microdialysis in rats. Synapse. 2010 Jul;64(7):533-41. doi: 10.1002/syn.20759. PubMed 20196139 ↗
  • Kosmowska B, Wardas J, Glowacka U, Ananthan S, Ossowska K. Pramipexole at a Low Dose Induces Beneficial Effect in the Harmaline-induced Model of Essential Tremor in Rats. CNS Neurosci Ther. 2016 Jan;22(1):53-62. doi: 10.1111/cns.12467. Epub 2015 Oct 13. PubMed 26459182 ↗
  • Lorenc-Koci E, Wolfarth S. Efficacy of pramipexole, a new dopamine receptor agonist, to relieve the parkinsonian-like muscle rigidity in rats. Eur J Pharmacol. 1999 Nov 26;385(1):39-46. doi: 10.1016/s0014-2999(99)00704-9. PubMed 10594343 ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03430596
Lead sponsor
Shanghai Mental Health Center
Responsible party
Wenjuan YU (director, Shanghai Mental Health Center) — Principal investigator
First posted
Feb 13, 2018
Start date
May 1, 2018
Primary completion
Oct 30, 2021
Completion
Dec 30, 2021
Last update
Jun 27, 2022

Study contacts

Huafang Li, MD,Phd
principal investigator · Drug Clinical Trial Office, Shanghai Mental Health Center

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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