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CompletedNCT03702777Updated Nov 21, 2024

A Study of ASP8302 in Participants With Underactive Bladder

A Phase 2 interventional study of ASP8302 and Placebo in Underactive Bladder, sponsored by Astellas Pharma Europe B.V.. Completed at 29 sites in 6 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-11-21.

Sponsored by Astellas Pharma Europe B.V. (part of Astellas Pharma Inc) · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
135
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

The study objectives of this study are to evaluate the efficacy of ASP8302 compared with placebo in participants with underactive bladder (UAB), to investigate the safety and tolerability of ASP8302 compared with placebo in participants with UAB, to investigate the pharmacokinetics of ASP8302 in participants with UAB and to support the development of the UAB - Patient Reported Outcome (PRO).

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The study will comprise a screening visit, followed by a treatment period and a 2-week follow-up period, in total 8 weeks. Participants will visit the clinic at screening (visit 1) and every 2 weeks (visit 2, 3, 4, and 5). During the course of the study assessments will be performed at the visits.

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Conditions studied

  • Underactive Bladder

Keywords

  • Underactive Bladder
  • ASP8302
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In context

Urinary Bladder, Underactive

31 studies on the registry are indexed under Urinary Bladder, Underactive; 6 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 135 is above the median of 66 across 21 interventional studies indexed under Urinary Bladder, Underactive.

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Lead sponsor

Astellas Pharma Europe B.V. is the lead sponsor of 94 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.

Of its 5 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 4 (80%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

At visit 1:

  • Subject is diagnosed with UAB, defined as a bothersome chronic incomplete bladder emptying:

    • clinical condition is present for ≥ 6 months before screening, and
    • subject has a PVR ≥ 75 mL (measured by ultrasound after uroflowmetry; V1-PVRUS1).
  • Subject on clean intermittent catheterization (CIC) should have been on CIC for at least 1 month and should be able to void spontaneously and not be completely dependent on CIC.
  • Female subject must either:

    • Be of non-; (defined as at least 1 year without any menses for which there is no other obvious pathological or physiological cause) prior to screening, or documented surgically sterile (e.g., hysterectomy, bilateral salpingectomy, bilateral oophorectomy).
    • Or, if of childbearing potential; agrees not to try to become pregnant during the study and for 28 days after the final study drug administration, agrees to have a serum pregnancy test on all visits, have a negative serum pregnancy test at the screening visit, and agrees to consistently use 1 form of highly effective starting at screening and throughout the study period and for 28 days after the final study drug administration.
  • Female subject must agree not to breastfeed starting at screening and throughout the study period, and for 28 days after the final study drug administration.
  • Female subject must not donate ova starting at screening and throughout the study period, and for 28 days after the final study drug administration.
  • A sexually active male subject with female partner(s) of childbearing potential is eligible if he agrees to use a male condom starting at screening and continue throughout study treatment and for 90 days after the final study drug administration. If the male subject has not had a vasectomy or is not sterile, his female partner(s) is utilizing 1 form of highly effective birth control starting at screening and will continue throughout study treatment and for 90 days after the male subject receives the final study drug administration.
  • Male subject must not donate sperm starting at screening and throughout the study period and for 90 days after the final study drug administration.
  • Male subject with a pregnant partner(s) must agree to remain abstinent or use a condom for the duration of the pregnancy throughout the study period and for 28 days after the final study drug administration.
  • Subject agrees not to participate in another interventional study while participating in this study.

At visit 2:

  • Subject has a PVR ≥ 100 mL (measured by catheterization, i.e., PVRC2).
  • Subject has a VVST ≥ 50 mL and a bladder voiding efficiency ((BVE) (V2_BVE)) ≥ 10%. The VVST and V2_PVRC2 will be used to calculate V2_BVE = [VVST/(V2_PVRC2 + VVST)] times 100.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

At visit 1:

Related to lower urinary tract:

  • Subject has significant BOO:

    • Subject has urethral stricture (e.g., requiring surgery).
    • Female subject has uterus prolapse ≥ Grade 2 Shaw's system (up to or outside the introitus), moderate or severe cystocele (reaches or protrudes outside the introitus).
    • Male subject has a bladder outlet obstruction index (BOOI) ≥ 40 cm H2O on pressure flow study (PFS) (either performed on screening or within 12 months of the screening visit), or -if PFS is not available-a prostate volume (PV) of > 40 mL (Europe) > 30 mL (Japan) on ultrasound (either performed on screening or within 6 months of the screening visit). Note: if PFS is available and PV is above the cut-off level, the subject is not to be excluded if bladder outlet obstruction index (BOOI) is \< 40.
    • Other condition that constitutes significant BOO.
  • Subject is known to have urgency urinary incontinence that is clinically significant.
  • Subject is known to have 1 or more bladder diverticuli that is/are clinically significant.
  • Subject is known to have vesico-ureteral/renal reflux that is clinically significant.
  • Subject has a urinary catheter in situ (including suprapubic catheters).
  • Subject is known to have 1 of the following conditions as a primary cause for subject's UAB, or a condition that could potentially influence treatment outcome:

    • Neurological lesion or condition, including cerebrovascular accident, spinal lumbar disc hernia, spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Guillain-Barré syndrome, pudendal, hypogastric or pelvic nerve lesion. Diabetes mellitus is allowed if controlled with or without medical treatment (e.g., \< 7%).
    • Increased pelvic floor muscle activity during voiding (e.g., dyssynergic striated sphincteric activity/striated sphincteric activity during voiding, Fowler syndrome and pelvic floor muscle spasm).
    • Previous bladder surgery (e.g., bladder augmentation or reduction surgery, latissimus dorsi detrusor myoplasty). Prior Benign Prostatic Obstruction surgery or pelvic organ prolapse surgery is allowed if performed more than 6 months prior to screening.
    • Previous implant surgery for incontinence still in situ (e.g., tape, sling or artificial sphincter)
    • Significant active urological pain syndrome.
    • Previous pelvic radiation therapy.
  • Dependence on use of a manual assistance method intended to improve bladder emptying (e.g., Credé's maneuver or suprapubic tapping).

Related to (previous or current) treatment and/or study drug:

  • Subject is receiving 1 or more of the following non-medication therapies:

    • Electrostimulation therapy, e.g., neurostimulation/modulation or sacral nerve stimulation in the past 3 months.
    • Intravesical or injection based treatment (e.g., botulinum toxin injections in urethra or bladder in the past 12 months).
    • An ongoing bladder training program and/or pelvic floor muscle exercises, which started within 6 weeks prior to visit 1.
    • Muscle-derived stem cell injection in the bladder or urethra or bladder transplantation at any time prior to screening.
  • Subject is using prohibited medications or subject is using restricted medications under conditions different to those specified in the concomitant medication section.
  • Subject has a known or suspected to ASP8302 or any of the inactive ingredients.

Related to concomitant conditions:

(Please note that these exclusion criteria do not require specific diagnostic evaluation during the screening visit, unless the subject presents with signs and symptoms suggesting the presence of this condition that were not present earlier.)

  • Subject is known to have inflammatory bowel disease or clinically significant diarrhea.
  • Subject is known to be due to conditions such as /acquired immune deficiency syndrome or .
  • Subject has been diagnosed with clinically significant cardiovascular or cerebrovascular diseases within 6 months prior to visit 1, such as myocardial infarction, uncontrolled angina/coronary artery disease, significant ventricular arrhythmias and heart failure ( class III/IV).
  • Subject has been diagnosed with clinically significant asthma, chronic bronchitis and/or .
  • Subject is known to have a mean Fridericia interval (QTcF) > 430 ms for males or > 450 ms for females, a pre-existing long QT syndrome or hypokalemia.
  • Subject has a clinically significant abnormal 12-lead .
  • Subject has current or previous malignant disease of the pelvis. Subjects with a history of (non-pelvic) cancer are considered eligible if the subject has undergone therapy and the subject has been considered disease free for at least 5 years. Subject with completely excised basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin and completely excised cervical cancer in situ are also considered eligible.
  • Subject is known to have moderate to severe hepatic impairment (i.e., class B or C).
  • Subject is known to have severe renal impairment defined as estimated (eGFR) \< 30 mL/min/1.73 m\^2.
  • Subject is known to have current or history of alcohol and/or drug abuse within the last 24 months prior to screening.
  • Subject has clinical signs and symptoms of a urinary tract infection (UTI), which is combined with a result of urine test (e.g., positive urine culture containing > 100,000 cfu/mL in midstream urine). If a UTI is confirmed in the visit 1 sample, the run-in period should be stopped. After successful treatment of the UTI, the subject can be rescreened and if eligible enroll in the study. If the subject has asymptomatic bacteriuria (i.e., a positive urine culture without clinical signs and symptoms of a UTI), the subject should not be excluded.
  • Subject has any of the following abnormal liver or kidney function parameters (as assessed in visit 1 sample):

    • (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST) or increased to > 1.5 times the (ULN).
    • Gamma glutamyltransferase (γ-GT) increased to > 3 times the ULN.
    • eGFR \< 45 mL/min/1.73 m\^2 based on the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease formula.

General:

  • Subject has received therapy within 28 days or 5 half-lives, whichever is longer, prior to screening.
  • Subject is known to have any condition, which makes the subject unsuitable for study participation.

At visit 2:

  • Subject meets any of the exclusion criteria of visit 1.
  • Subject has severe overactive bladder (OAB), i.e., experienced 3 or more episodes of urgency (Patient Perception of Intensity of Urgency Scale (PPIUS) grade 3 or 4), during the 3-day micturition diary period prior to visit 2.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(19)

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Childbearing potential

Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).

Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.

Postmenopausal

Periods have stopped for good: usually no period for 12 months in a row without another medical reason, sometimes confirmed by a blood test (FSH).

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.

Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.

Clinically significant

Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.

HbA1c

A blood test of average blood sugar over the past two to three months, given as a percentage or in mmol/mol. 6.5% (48 mmol/mol) or more is the usual threshold for diabetes, normally confirmed by a second test.

Hypersensitivity

An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.

Immunosuppression

A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.

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HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.

Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.

Hepatitis C tests

Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.

After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.

NYHA class (heart failure)

The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.

I
No limits: ordinary activity causes no undue tiredness or breathlessness.
II
Slight limits: comfortable at rest, ordinary activity causes symptoms.
III
Marked limits: comfortable at rest, less than ordinary activity causes symptoms.
IV
Symptoms even at rest; any activity makes them worse.

Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.

COPD

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.

QT and QTc

On an ECG, the QT interval is the time the heart’s lower chambers take to activate electrically and recover in each beat. QTc is that time adjusted for heart rate (QTcF by Fridericia’s formula, QTcB by Bazett’s). Some medicines lengthen it, and a long QTc can raise the risk of a dangerous heart rhythm.

The study may name a correction formula and a limit in milliseconds, often around 450–480.

ECG (electrocardiogram)

A recording of the heart’s electrical activity, taken with stickers on the chest, arms and legs. It takes a few minutes and does not hurt.

Child-Pugh class

A score of how well the liver works in people with liver disease such as cirrhosis: class A is mild, B moderate and C severe.

GFR and eGFR (kidney filtering)

GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is how much blood the kidneys filter each minute. It is usually estimated from a blood test — eGFR, by formulas such as CKD-EPI or MDRD — and some studies ask for it to be measured directly instead. Usually given in mL/min/1.73 m².

Check the method, the units and the minimum the study states. A value of 90 or above is in the normal-or-high range, but kidney damage can show in other tests too.

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.

Bilirubin

A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.

Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.

ULN (upper limit of normal)

The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.

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

Investigational drug or device

A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.

It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Double (Participant, Investigator)
Enrollment
135 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    ASP8302 100mg

    Participants will receive ASP8302 100mg capsules orally once daily for up to 4 weeks.

    Drug: ASP8302

  • Placebo comparator
    Placebo

    Participants will receive ASP8302 matching placebo orally once daily for up to 4 weeks.

    Drug: Placebo

Interventions

  • DrugASP8302

    Oral Capsule

  • DrugPlacebo

    Oral Capsule

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Change From Baseline in PVR After Standardized Bladder Filling Measured by Catheterization (PVRc2) at Week 4

    Volume of urine in the bladder after standardized bladder filling measured by catheterization (PVRc2).

    Time frame: Baseline and week 4

Secondary outcomes

  1. Voided Volume After Standardized Bladder Filling (VV_St) at Week 4

    VVst is thought to increase as the bladder emptying is improved. Standardizing the bladder filling is thought to increase accuracy in comparison with normal spontaneous bladder filling which will differ between time points. No multiplicity correction will be performed.

    Time frame: Week 4

  2. Bladder Voiding Efficiency Calculated With PVRc2 and VV-St (BVEc2) at Week 4

    Bladder voiding efficiency (BVE) is defined as the percentage of the total bladder capacity (BC) that is voided using the following formula: BVE = \[volume voided (VV) / (PVR + VV)\] x 100. BVEc2: BVE calculated for PVRc2 parameter i.e. BVEc2 = \[VV_St / (PVRc2 + VV_St)\] x 100.

    Time frame: Week 4

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Study locations

29 sites
  • Site DE49001
    Duisburg, Germany
  • Site DE49002
    Duisburg, Germany
  • Site DE49004
    Gronau, Germany
  • Site DE49003
    Moenchengladbach, Germany
  • Site JP81009
    Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
  • Site JP81008
    Obu, Aichi, Japan
  • Site JP81007
    Yoshida-gun, Fukui, Japan
  • Site JP81006
    Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan
  • Site JP81005
    Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
  • Site JP81015
    Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
  • Site JP81002
    Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
  • Site JP81012
    Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
  • Site JP81011
    Osakasayama, Osaka, Japan
  • Site JP81001
    Shimotsuga-gun, Tochigi, Japan
  • Site JP81003
    Fukuoka, Japan
  • Site JP81004
    Kumamoto, Japan
  • Site JP81010
    Saga, Japan
  • Site JP81013
    Shizuoka, Japan
  • Site NL31003
    Eindhoven, Netherlands
  • Site NL31002
    Maastricht, Netherlands
  • Site NL31001
    Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • Site PL48004
    Myslowice, Poland
  • Site PL48003
    Piaseczno, Poland
  • Site PL48002
    Szczecin, Poland
  • Site PL48001
    Warsaw, Poland
  • Site SK42103
    Kosice, Slovakia
  • Site SK42101
    Nitra, Slovakia
  • Site SK42102
    Trencin, Slovakia
  • Site UK44002
    Bristol, United Kingdom
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References and documents

Publications

  • van Till JWO, Arita E, Kuroishi K, Croy R, Oelke M, van Koeveringe GA, Chapple CR, Yamaguchi O, Abrams P. Muscarinic-3-receptor positive allosteric modulator ASP8302 in patients with underactive bladder. A randomized controlled trial. Neurourol Urodyn. 2022 Jun;41(5):1139-1148. doi: 10.1002/nau.24931. Epub 2022 Apr 14. PubMed 35419807 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No — Access to anonymized individual participant level data will not be provided for this trial. Further details on Astellas' data sharing policy can be found at https://www.clinicaltrials.astellas.com/transparency/.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Nov 21, 2024, 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
NCT03702777
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Oct 11, 2018
Start date
Nov 20, 2018
Primary completion
Apr 28, 2020
Completion
Apr 28, 2020
Last update
Nov 21, 2024

Study contacts

Medical Director
study director · Astellas Pharma Europe B.V.

Oversight

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