A Phase 1 interventional study of Atorvastatin and methylprednisolone (IVMP) in Thyroid Eye Disease, Graves Ophthalmopathy and Graves Orbitopathy, sponsored by Banu Aji Dibyasakti. Not yet recruiting at 1 site in Indonesia. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-08-13.
Sponsored by Banu Aji Dibyasakti · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment
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The trial tests the hypothesis that, in adults with active, moderate-to-severe Graves' orbitopathy, 24 weeks of oral atorvastatin 20 mg daily added to a standard 12-week course of intravenous methylprednisolone produces a greater reduction in extraocular muscle size than intravenous methylprednisolone alone, and that any such reduction is accompanied by lower expression of TSH receptor, IGF-1 receptor, PDGF receptor, PI3K/AKT and miR-155 transcripts, and higher expression of miR-146a. The prespecified direction for miR-146a follows its reported suppression in CD4+ T cells in active disease [26]. Reported directions of change are compartment-specific and not unanimous, so the transcript analyses are exploratory.
199 studies on the registry are indexed under Graves Ophthalmopathy; 58 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 64 is close to the median of 63 across 146 interventional studies indexed under Graves Ophthalmopathy.
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Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
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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.
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A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.
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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.
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.
CYP3A is a group of enzymes, mainly CYP3A4, in the liver and gut that break down many medicines. Some medicines, supplements and foods (grapefruit, St John’s wort) slow them down or speed them up, which changes how much of a study drug stays in the body.
Studies list them so they can be avoided or switched; bring a list of everything you take, including supplements.
Corticosteroids (steroids)
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
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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.
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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.
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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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Autoimmune disease
A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.
Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.
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Hypersensitivity
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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.
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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.
Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.
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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.
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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.
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.
CYP3A (CYP3A4) inhibitors and inducers
CYP3A is a group of enzymes, mainly CYP3A4, in the liver and gut that break down many medicines. Some medicines, supplements and foods (grapefruit, St John’s wort) slow them down or speed them up, which changes how much of a study drug stays in the body.
Studies list them so they can be avoided or switched; bring a list of everything you take, including supplements.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Experimental group recieve methylprednisolone injection 500 mg per week for six weeks followed by methylprednisolone 250 mg per weeks for following six weeks
Drug: methylprednisolone (IVMP)
Experimental group recieve methylprednisolone injection 500 mg per week for six weeks followed by methylprednisolone 250 mg combined per week for following six weeks combined atorvastatin 20 mg per weeks for six months
Drug: Atorvastatin · Drug: methylprednisolone (IVMP)
Moderate-to-severe Graves' orbitopathy at a tertiary referral centre in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, will be allocated 1:1 to intravenous methylprednisolone (500 mg weekly for six weeks, then 250 mg weekly for six weeks) with oral atorvastatin 20 mg daily for 24 weeks.
Moderate-to-severe Graves' orbitopathy at a tertiary referral centre in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, will be allocated 1:1 to intravenous methylprednisolone (500 mg weekly for six weeks, then 250 mg weekly for six weeks)
Individual rectus muscle diameters
The primary outcome is measuring the rectus muscle diameters using Coronal CT, per muscle, both orbits
Time frame: At the first week,12th week, and 24th week from starting point of treatment
Composite ocular response
A participant is a responder if at least two of the five criteria below are met in the more affected eye, with no deterioration in any of them in either eye: 1. reduction in clinical activity score of 2 points or more; 2. reduction in proptosis of 2 mm or more, without an increase of 2 mm or more in the fellow eye; 3. reduction in vertical palpebral fissure height of 2 mm or more, with the same proviso for the fellow eye; 4. disappearance of diplopia, or improvement by at least one Gorman grade; 5. improvement in best-corrected visual acuity of 0.1 logMAR or more, this being the step on the logMAR chart closest to the 0.2-decimal criterion used in STAGO.
Time frame: At Week 24th
Clinical activity score
7-item EUGOGO scale, masked assessor Score : * Minimum score 0 and maximum score 7 at first meeting * Maximum score 10 at follow up meeting Higher score has worse outcome
Time frame: Baseline and every study visit to week 24
Exophthalmos, clinical
Measurement of clinic exophthalmos using Hertel exophthalmometer, fixed base setting, single masked assessor
Time frame: Baseline and every study visit to week 24
Exophthalmos, radiological
Exophthalmos measured from Interzygomatic line to posterior corneal surface, axial CT
Time frame: Baseline, weeks 12, 24
Vertical palpebral fissure height
Palpbral fissure height measured using millimetre ruler, primary position of gaze, masked assessor
Time frame: Baseline and every study visit to week 24
Change in LDL cholesterol
Using the Enzymatic colorimetric assay; used in the prespecified mediation analysis
Time frame: Baseline, weeks 12, 24
Orbital fat volume
Using Segmentation at -200 to -30 HU, ITK-SNAP v4.2.0
Time frame: Baseline, weeks 12, 24
Transcript levels in peripheral blood
TSH-R, IGF-1R, PDGF-R, PI3K/AKT, miR-146a, miR-155; qRT-PCR, fold change relative to GAPDH for the messenger RNA targets and to U6 snRNA for the microRNA target
Time frame: Baseline, weeks 12, 24
Transcript levels in orbital tissue
TSH-R, IGF-1R, PDGF-R, PI3K/AKT, miR-146a, miR-155; qRT-PCR, fold change relative to GAPDH for the messenger RNA targets and to U6 snRNA for the microRNA targets; specimen taken at rehabilitative decompression
Time frame: At decompression 24th week
Plan to share: No — To keep the privacy of participants information
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Start is estimated for Aug 2026; primary completion for Jul 2027, 11 months later.
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Studies of the drug tested here: Atorvastatin