A Phase 3 interventional study of Macitentan and Selexipag in Hypertension, Pulmonary, sponsored by Actelion. Recruiting at 45 sites in 13 countries. Open to participants aged 2 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-03.
Sponsored by Actelion (part of Johnson & Johnson) · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment
The purpose of the study is to enable participants with pulmonary hypertension (PH) currently treated with study intervention(s) in a clinical study (parent studies [NCT03422328, NCT03904693,NCT04565990, NCT02932410, NCT03492177, and NCT04175600]), to continue to benefit from the intervention after closure of the parent study in case they have no alternative means of access to the study intervention. This study will allow assessment of the long-term safety of each study intervention.
1,092 studies on the registry are indexed under Hypertension, Pulmonary; 244 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 280 is above the median of 35 across 649 interventional studies indexed under Hypertension, Pulmonary.
Browse Hypertension, Pulmonary studies →Actelion is the lead sponsor of 143 studies on the registry; 1 is open to participants now.
Of its 28 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 25 (89%) have results posted.
First submitted after Actelion became part of Johnson & Johnson.
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Exclusion Criteria:
General:
Macitentan-specific:
Selexipag-specific:
Macitentan/tadalafil FDC-specific:
Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.
The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).
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.
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.
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.
A “mini-stroke”: temporary stroke-like symptoms caused by reduced blood flow to part of the brain, spinal cord or eye, without signs of a new stroke on a scan.
Stroke symptoms need emergency care at once, even if they go away.
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.
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.
How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.
Informed consent
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Excipients
The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hemoglobin (Hb)
The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
TIA (transient ischaemic attack)
A “mini-stroke”: temporary stroke-like symptoms caused by reduced blood flow to part of the brain, spinal cord or eye, without signs of a new stroke on a scan.
Stroke symptoms need emergency care at once, even if they go away.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Creatinine clearance (CrCl)
How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Participants who have completed a parent study, benefit from their study intervention maintenance and have no adequate alternative local treatment option will be enrolled in this study and will continue to receive study drug macitentan orally during the course of the study. For adult participants study visits will be scheduled every 6 months and for pediatric participants study visits will be scheduled every 3 months. The study includes on-site visits to collect efficacy and safety information until participant discontinuation/withdrawal, or the respective study intervention is made commercially available in the country/territory or an equivalent approved therapy becomes available, or the sponsor decides to terminate the study prematurely.
Drug: Macitentan
Participants who have completed a parent study, benefit from their study intervention maintenance and have no adequate alternative local treatment option will be enrolled in this study and will continue to receive study drug selexipag orally during the course of the study. Study visits are scheduled every 6 months to collect efficacy and safety information until participant discontinuation/withdrawal, or the respective study intervention is made commercially available in the country/territory or an equivalent approved therapy becomes available, or the sponsor decides to terminate the study prematurely.
Drug: Selexipag
Participants who have completed a parent study, benefit from their study intervention maintenance and have no adequate alternative local treatment option will be enrolled in this study and will continue to receive drug Macitentan and Tadalafil fixed dose combination (FDC) orally during the course of the study. Study visits are scheduled every 6 months to collect efficacy and safety information until participant discontinuation/withdrawal, or the respective study intervention is made commercially available in the country/territory or an equivalent approved therapy becomes available, or the sponsor decides to terminate the study prematurely.
Drug: Macitentan/Tadalafil FDC
Adult participants will receive oral dose of macitentan 10 milligrams (mg) tablet once daily. Children greater than or equal to (\>=) 2 year to less than (\<) 18 years will be given an oral macitentan dose tailored to their body weight, ensuring an equivalent level of systemic exposure as in adults.
Also known as: JNJ-67896062
Adult Participant will receive oral dose of selexipag tablet twice daily at the dose strength corresponding to their maintenance dose at the end of their parent study. Available strengths: 200, 400, 600, 800, 1000, 1200, 1400 and 1600 micrograms (µg). Children with body weight category of \>=50 kg will use the tablets at the required dose strength as described for adults. Children with a body weight \< 50 kg will receive tablets for pediatric use (dose strengths: 100 and 150 mcg), twice daily to enable continuation of individually maximum tolerated dose of selexipag according to their body weight category.
Also known as: JNJ-67896049
Drug pages: Macitentan · Tadalafil
Participants will receive oral FDC of macitentan 10 mg and tadalafil 40 mg once daily during the course of the study as already received in the parent studies.
Also known as: JNJ-68150420
Frequency of Treatment Emergent Adverse Events (TEAEs)
An adverse event (AE) is any untoward medical occurrence in a clinical study participant administered a pharmaceutical (investigational or non-investigational) product. An AE does not necessarily have a causal relationship with the intervention. TEAEs are defined as a treatment-emergent AE is any AE temporally associated with the use of study treatment (from start of treatment in the PLATYPUS protocol until 30 days after study treatment discontinuation) whether or not considered by the investigator as related to study treatment.
Time frame: Baseline until End of Study (EOS) (up to 84 months)
Frequency of TEAEs Leading to Discontinuation
Frequency of TEAEs leading to discontinuation of study intervention will be reported. An AE is any untoward medical occurrence in a clinical study participant administered a pharmaceutical (investigational or non-investigational) product. An AE does not necessarily have a causal relationship with the intervention. TEAEs are defined as a treatment-emergent AE is any AE temporally associated with the use of study treatment (from start of treatment in the PLATYPUS protocol until 30 days after study treatment discontinuation) whether or not considered by the investigator as related to study treatment.
Time frame: Baseline until EOS (up to 84 months)
Frequency of Serious Adverse Events (SAEs)
SAE is any untoward medical occurrence that at any dose results in death, is life-threatening, requires inpatient hospitalization or prolongation of existing hospitalization, results in persistent or significant disability/incapacity, is a congenital anomaly/birth defect, is a suspected transmission of any infectious agent via a medicinal product and is medically important.
Time frame: Baseline until EOS (up to 84 months)
Frequency of Deaths
Frequency of deaths will be reported.
Time frame: Baseline until EOS (up to 84 months)
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Plan to share: Yes — The data sharing policy of Johnson \& Johnson Innovative Medicine is available at innovativemedicine.jnj.com/our-innovation/clinical-trials/transparency. As noted on this site, requests for access to the study data can be submitted through Yale Open Data Access (YODA) Project site at yoda.yale.edu
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Studies of the drugs tested here: Macitentan · Selexipag · Tadalafil