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CompletedNCT03949894ESSENTIALUpdated Jun 16, 2022

Evaluating the Safety and effectivenesS in Adult KorEaN Patients Treated With Tolvaptan for Management of Autosomal domInAnt poLycystic Kidney Disease

A Phase 4 interventional study of Tolvaptan in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD), sponsored by Korea Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.. Completed at 18 sites in Korea, Republic of. Open to participants aged 19 Years to 50 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-06-16.

Sponsored by Korea Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (part of Otsuka Holdings Co., Ltd.) · Phase 4, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 4
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
118
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
19 Years to 50 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

To evaluate the safety and therapeutic effectiveness of tolvaptan when administered to slow the progression of cyst development and renal function insufficiency in adult Korean patients diagnosed with rapidly progressive ADPKD who have chronic kidney disease (CKD) stages 1-3 at initiation of treatment.

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Conditions studied

  • Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD)
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In context

Polycystic Kidney, Autosomal Dominant

185 studies on the registry are indexed under Polycystic Kidney, Autosomal Dominant; 42 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 118 is above the median of 51 across 138 interventional studies indexed under Polycystic Kidney, Autosomal Dominant.

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Lead sponsor

Korea Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. is the lead sponsor of 42 studies on the registry; 3 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
19 Years to 50 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Subjects who voluntarily participate by giving written on this trial
  2. Male and female patients aged ≥ 19 to ≤ 50 years
  3. Subjects diagnosed with ADPKD based on the Unified Criteria for Ultrasonographic diagnosis of ADPKD (Pei-Ravine Criteria)
  4. Subjects with confirmed CKD stages 1-3 at the screening visit
  5. Subjects with confirmed rapidly progressive typical ADPKD 'Typical ADPKD'

    • refers to bilateral and diffuse distribution, with mild, moderate or severe replacement of kidney tissue by cysts, where all cysts contribute similarly to TKV.

'rapidly progressive ADPKD'

  • Patients will be defined as 'rapidly progressive ADPKD' if they meet any of the following criteria:

    • Mayo class 1C, 1D or 1E

      • Truncating PKD1 mutation confirmed by genetic testing before participating this trial ③ PRO-PKD score > 6 ④ Patients with ADPKD with a decline in Estimated (eGFR) ≥ 5 mL/min/1.73 m2 within 1 year from the screening visit or with an average annual decline in eGFR ≥ 2.5 mL/min/1.73 m2 over a period of 5 years (excluding patients with an eGFR decline due to factors other than ADPKD, such as uncontrolled type 2 diabetes, early diabetic glomerular disease or immune-mediated glomerulonephritis)

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Patients with hyponatremia or hypernatremia
  2. Patients with anuria
  3. Patients with volume depletion
  4. Patients who are unable to sense or appropriately respond to thirst
  5. Patients with to MRI assessment [e.g., ferromagnetic metal prosthesis, aneurysm clips, severe claustrophobia, large tattoo on the abdomen or back, etc.]
  6. Patients with severe renal impairment [e.g., patients with currently active glomerulonephritis, kidney cancer, having a single kidney, history of renal surgery within the last 3 years, etc.]
  7. Patients with severe hepatic impairment [e.g., cirrhosis, viral hepatitis, unspecified liver function test abnormalities ( or Aspartate aminotransferase(AST)) > 3 x or Total > 2 x ULN), etc.]
  8. Patients with decline due to factors other than ADPKD (e.g., uncontrolled type 2 diabetes, early diabetic glomerular disease or immune-mediated glomerulonephritis, etc.)
  9. Patients with a history of and/or specific reactions to benzazepine or benzazepine derivatives (such as Benazepril), or tolvaptan
  10. Patients with hereditary problems of galactose intolerance, the Lapp lactose deficiency or glucose-galactose malabsorption, etc.
  11. Patients who need chronic diuretic use
  12. Patients who are receiving any experimental (not marketed) or approved therapies that may affect the treatment of ADPKD within 6 months from the screening visit [e.g., anti-sense RNA therapy, rapamycin, sirolimus, everolimus and somatostatin analogs (octreotide, sandostatin), vasopressin antagonist (mozavaptan, conivaptan), vasopressin agonist (desmopressin)]
  13. Patients who have received cyst decompression or sclerotherapy within 3 years from the screening visit
  14. Patients with a history of taking tolvaptan within 6 months from the screening visit
  15. Patients who received any medicinal product in another trial within 30 days from the screening visit
  16. Fertile women who are currently pregnant or breat feeding, or not willing to use or capable of using acceptable methods (abstinence, oral, implanted or injected hormonal methods of contraception, intrauterine device or barrier methods of contraception, such as condom, contraceptive diaphragm and spermicidal agents) to avoid pregnancy until completion of the trial
  17. Patients who are, in the opinion of the investigator, unable to comply with the administration of the Investigational Medicinal Product(IMP) or the trial procedures
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(9)

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Informed consent

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You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.

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.

Contraindication

A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    tolvaptan

    Drug: Tolvaptan

Interventions

  • 30mg and 15mg of Tolvaptan Tablet

    Also known as: Samsca

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. The incidences of TEAEs

    The incidences of TEAEs

    Time frame: during the tolvaptan treatment period and up to 7 days after the date of last dosing

  2. The incidences of TEAEs meeting any of the followings will be summarized.

    Liver injury \[ALT or AST elevation (\>3 x ULN) or Total Bilirubin elevation (\>2 x ULN), etc.\], AEs leading to death, Serious AEs, AEs leading to treatment discontinuation, AEs whose causal relationship with the IMP cannot be ruled out, Severe AEs, Dehydration, Effects on Sodium, Creatinine

    Time frame: during the tolvaptan treatment period and up to 7 days after the date of last dosing

Secondary outcomes

  1. Total kidney volume (TKV) annual mean percent change rate [%/year]

    Baseline TKV refers to the value measured during the screening period

    Time frame: from baseline to End of Treatment (Visit 25, Month 24)

  2. eGFR CKD-EPI annual mean change [mL/min/1.73m^2] (off-treatment)

    (off-treatment)

    Time frame: from baseline to the Follow-up visit (Visit 26, 7 days after End of Treatment(Visit 25, Month 24))

  3. eGFR CKD-EPI annual mean change [mL/min/1.73m^2] (on-treatment)

    (on-treatment)

    Time frame: from Completion of Tolvaptan Titration Period (Visit 6, Week 4) to End of Treatment (Visit 25, Month 24)

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Study locations

18 sites
  • Inje University Busan Paik Hospital
    Busan, Korea, Republic of
  • Kosin University Gospel Hospital
    Busan, Korea, Republic of
  • Hallym University Chuncheon Sacred Heart Hospital
    Chuncheon, Korea, Republic of
  • Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center
    Daegu, Korea, Republic of
  • Kyungpook National University Hospital
    Daegu, Korea, Republic of
  • Chungnam National University Hospital
    Daejeon, Korea, Republic of
  • Chonnam National University Hospital
    Gwangju, Korea, Republic of
  • Gachon University Gil Medical Center
    Incheon, Korea, Republic of
  • Hallym University Medical Center
    Pyeongchon, Korea, Republic of
  • Seoul National University Bundang Hospital
    Seongnam-si, Korea, Republic of
  • Seoul National University Hospital
    Seoul, 03080, Korea, Republic of
  • Gangnam Severance Hospital
    Seoul, Korea, Republic of
  • Hallym University Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital
    Seoul, Korea, Republic of
  • Hanyang University Seoul Hospital
    Seoul, Korea, Republic of
  • Kangbuk Samsung Hospital
    Seoul, Korea, Republic of
  • Severance Hospital
    Seoul, Korea, Republic of
  • SMG-SNU Boramae Medical Center
    Seoul, Korea, Republic of
  • The Catholic University of Korea Seoul St. Mary's Hospital
    Seoul, Korea, Republic of
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Ran from Jul 2019 to primary completion in May 2022, 34 months.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Apr 16, 2019
First posted
May 14, 2019
StartActual
Jul 1, 2019
Primary completionActual
May 25, 2022
CompletionActual
May 25, 2022
Last update
Jun 16, 2022
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jun 16, 2022, 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
NCT03949894
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
May 14, 2019
Start date
Jul 1, 2019
Primary completion
May 25, 2022
Completion
May 25, 2022
Last update
Jun 16, 2022

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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