NCT03992404Active, not recruitingPhase 3
Study to Compare the Efficacy and Safety of NT 201 (Botulinum Toxin) With Placebo for the Treatment of Lower Limb Spasticity Caused by Stroke or Traumatic Brain Injury
Prospective, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Multicenter Study to Investigate the Efficacy and Safety of NT 201 in the Treatment of Lower Limb Spasticity Caused by Stroke or Traumatic Brain Injury in Adult Subjects, Followed by an Open Label Extension With or Without Combined Upper Limb Treatment
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 20 Oct 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The purpose of this study is to determine whether a single treatment with administration of 400 Units NT 201 (botulinum toxin) is superior to placebo (no medicine) for the treatment of lower limb spasticity caused by stroke or traumatic brain injury (Main Period). Participants will be assigned to the treatment groups by chance and neither the participants nor the research staff who interact with them will know the allocation. The following 4 to 5 treatment cycles will investigate the safety and tolerability of treatment with NT 201 (botulinum toxin) when administered in doses between 400 and 800 Units (Open Label Extension Period). All participants will receive the treatment and the dose will depend on whether only lower limb spasticity or combined upper and lower limb spasticity are treated.
- Status (registry)
- Active, not recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 3
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 603 (actual)
- First submitted
- 18 Jun 2019
- Start date
- 16 Sept 2019
- Primary completion date
- 19 Jun 2025
- Lead sponsor
- Merz Pharmaceuticals GmbH
- Diseases
- Stroke
- NCT number
- NCT03992404
- EudraCT number
- 2018-001639-35
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 3
- Participants enrolled: 603
- From 16 Sept 2019 to the primary completion date, 19 Jun 2025
- 71 sites in 15 countries
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Previous, ongoing or planned treatments of spasticity with intrathecal baclofen
- Previous, ongoing, or planned treatments of spasticity in the target lower limb with any of the following procedures: Surgical Intervention; Alcohol or phenol block; Muscle afferent block
- Physiotherapy or use of orthoses or splints at the target limb initiated less than 4 weeks before screening or expected to change during the double blind phase of the study
- Current or planned treatment with parenterally administered drugs that interfere with neuromuscular transmission (e.g. intrathecal baclofen, tubocurarine type muscle relaxants used in anesthesia), or local anesthetics in the treated region within 2 weeks prior to screening
Other illness
- Generalized disorders of muscle activity (e.g. myasthenia gravis, Lambert Eaton syndrome, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) or any other significant peripheral neuromuscular dysfunction which might interfere with the study
- Infection or inflammation at the injection sites
- Subjects with presence or history of aspiration pneumonia, recurrent lower respiratory tract infections, or compromised respiratory function as per investigator's clinical judgment
Other
- Bilateral lower limb paresis/paralysis/spasticity or tetraparesis/paralysis/spasticity
- Body weight \< 50 kg
- Severe atrophy of the target limb muscles
- Pregnancy (as verified by a positive pregnancy test) or breast feeding
Who the study is looking for
- Female or male subject ≥ 18 years and ≤ 85 years at screening
- Diagnosis of lower limb spasticity with or without upper limb spasticity of the same body side caused by stroke or traumatic brain injury
- Disabling ankle flexor spasticity presenting as pes equinus or pes equinovarus
- Modified Ashworth Scale-Bohannon \[MAS\] score of 2 or 3 points in the ankle plantar flexor of the target lower limb (supine position, knee extended)
- Minimum passive range of motion in ankle of the target lower limb (supine position, knee extended): 10°dorsiflexion and 20°plantarflexion
- At least 4 months since last botulinum neurotoxin \[BoNT\] injection for treatment of spasticity or any other condition
- For subjects receiving anticoagulation therapy, the investigator confirms and documents that the subject has an:
- Activated partial thromboplastin time \[aPTT\] ≤ 80 seconds (subjects on dabigatran or other direct thrombin inhibitors) or
- International normalized ratio \[INR\] value of ≤ 2.5 (subjects on coumarins or other anticoagulants monitored by INR)
Age in the registry: 18 years to 85 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (71)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| UCL Bruxelles, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Department, Merz Investigational Site #0320013 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Brussels | Belgium | Unknown status |
| CHU Brugmann Neurology; Merz investigational site #0320015 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Brussels | Belgium | Unknown status |
| UZ Leuven Pellenberg campus; Merz investigational site #0320014 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Pellenberg | Belgium | Unknown status |
| UCL Mont Godinne, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Department; Merz Investigational Site #0320008 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Yvoir | Belgium | Unknown status |
| Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital, Merz investigational site #0010195 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Edmonton | Canada | Unknown status |
| University Hospital of Bern, Center of Parkinson's diseases and Movement disorders (ZfPB), Merz investigational site #0410015 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bern | Switzerland | Unknown status |
| HFR Fribourg - Hôpital Cantonal, Department of Rehabilitation, Merz Investigational site #0410014 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Meyriez | Switzerland | Unknown status |
| CRR, Mee Suva (Clinique romande de réadaptation), Merz investigational site #0410016 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Sion | Switzerland | Unknown status |
| Neurology and Physiotherapy Skopalikova, Merz Investigational Site #4200049 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Brno | Czechia | Unknown status |
| University Hospital Ostrava; Neurology Departement, Merz investigational site #4200024 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ostrava | Czechia | Unknown status |
| Pardubice Regional Hospital; Merz investigational site #4200025 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Pardubice | Czechia | Unknown status |
| Uniklinik RWTH Aachen, Neurologie, Merz Investigational Site #0490191 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Aachen | Germany | Unknown status |
| Neurologie Bewegt; Merz Investigational site #0490378 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Berlin | Germany | Unknown status |
| University of Bonn Medical Center, Department of Neurodegenerative disease, Merz investigational site #0490390 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bonn | Germany | Unknown status |
| Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, Department of Neurology; Merz Investigational Site #0490071 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Düsseldorf | Germany | Unknown status |
| Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Merz Investigational site #0490079 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hamburg | Germany | Unknown status |
| DKD HELIOS Medical Center, Fachbereich Neurologie, Merz Investigational Site #0490081 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Wiesbaden | Germany | Unknown status |
| Neurologische Klinik und Poliklinik des Universitätsklinikums Würzburg, Merz Investigational Site #0490302 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Würzburg | Germany | Unknown status |
| Hospital Universitario Juan Ramón Jiménez, Merz Investigational Site #0340037 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Huelva | Spain | Unknown status |
| Hospital Universitario La Paz, Merz Investigational Site #0340007 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madrid | Spain | Unknown status |
| Hospital Universitari Mútua de Terrassa, Merz Investigational Site #0340003 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Terrassa | Spain | Unknown status |
| Raymond Poincaré University Hospital, Service de MPR Pôle Handicap-Rééducation, Merz Investigational site #00330018 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Garches | France | Unknown status |
| CHU Lille/Hôpital Swynghedauw; investigational site # 0330045 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lille | France | Unknown status |
| Pôle Saint-Hélier; Merz investigational site #0330024 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rennes | France | Unknown status |
| Institut Universitaire de Readaptation Clemenceau, Physical Medicine / Rehabilitation Medecine, Merz Investigational site # 0330063 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Strasbourg | France | Unknown status |
| Rangueil Hospital-University Hospital Center (CHU) of Toulouse, Médecine physique et de réadaptation, Merz investigational site #0330025 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Toulouse | France | Unknown status |
| Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Merz Investigational Site 0440023 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cambridge | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Royal Devon and Exeter Foundation Trust Hospital, Department of Neurology, Merz Investigational Site #0440047 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Exeter | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust; Neuroscience Research Centre; Merz Investigational site #0440004 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Liverpool | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Petz Hospital, Neurology, Merz Investigational Site #0360010 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Győr | Hungary | Unknown status |
| St.Damjan Hospital, Kisvarda; Merz investigational site #0360019 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kisvárda | Hungary | Unknown status |
| University of Szeged, Department of Neurology, Merz investigational site #0360008 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Szeged | Hungary | Unknown status |
| Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti Di Foggia; Merz Investigational Site #0390018 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Foggia | Italy | Unknown status |
| IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico S. Martino, U.O.Complessa Riabilitazione e Rieducazione Funzionale; Merz investigational site #0390020 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Genova | Italy | Unknown status |
| Ospedale Maggiore della Carita, Dipartimento di Medicina fisica e Riabilitativa, Merz Investigational Site #0390017 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Novara | Italy | Unknown status |
| Ospedale Alfredo Fiorini, UOSD Neurologia Universitaria; Merz Investigational site #0390022 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Terracina | Italy | Unknown status |
| Specjalistyczna Praktyka Lekarska Dr. n. med Stanisław Ochudło, Merz Investigational Site #0480077 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Katowice | Poland | Unknown status |
| Specjalistyczne Gabinety Sp z o.o., Merz Investigational Site #0480059 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Krakow | Poland | Unknown status |
| NeuroKlinika Gabinet Lekarski Prof Andrzej Bogucki, Merz Investigational Site #0480101 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lodz | Poland | Unknown status |
| Indywidualna Praktyka Lekarska Dr hab. Med. Anna Szczepańska-Szerej, Merz Investigational Site #0480096 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lublin | Poland | Unknown status |
| Projekt Samodzielni Sp z o.o., Merz Investigational Site #0480099 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Warsaw | Poland | Unknown status |
| Mazowiecki Szpital Brodnowski, Merz investigational site #0480064 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Warsaw | Poland | Unknown status |
| Instytut Psychiatrii i Neurologii, II Klinika Neurologiczna, Merz Investigational Site #0480023 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Warsaw | Poland | Unknown status |
| Filia 7 Centrum Kompleksowej Rehabilitacji Sp. z o.o., Merz Investigational Site #0480100 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Warsaw | Poland | Unknown status |
| Neuryt Diagnostyka I Terapia Neurologiczna, Merz investigational site #0480106 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Wroclaw | Poland | Unknown status |
| Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "Krasnoyarsk State Medical University n.a. Professor V.F. Voino-Yasenetskiy of Ministry Healthcare of Russian Federation", Merz Investigational Site #0070306 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Krasnoyarsk | Russia | Unknown status |
| Federal State Autonomous Institution "National Medical Research Centre "Treatment and Rehabilitation" of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Neurology department, Merz Investigational Site # 0070305 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Moscow | Russia | Unknown status |
| State Autonomous Institution of Healthcare of Moscow City "Moscow Scientific and Practical Centre of Medical Rehabilitation, Regenerative and Sports Medicine of Moscow City Healthcare Department", Merz Investigational Site #0070011 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Moscow | Russia | Unknown status |
| Federal State Budgetary Institution "National Medical Research Centre of Psychiatry and Neurology n.a. V.M. Bekhterev" of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation, Merz Investigational Site #0070009 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Saint Petersburg | Russia | Unknown status |
| University Hospital Bratislav, 2nd Dept. of Neurology, Merz Investigational Site # 4210005 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bratislava | Slovakia | Unknown status |
| Neurologicka klinika, Fakultna nemocnica Trnava; Merz investigational site #4210009 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Trnava | Slovakia | Unknown status |
| Institute of Neurology, Psychiatry and Narcology of NAMS of Ukraine; Merz Investigational Site #3800019 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kharkiv | Ukraine | Unknown status |
| Institute of Neurology, Psychiatry and Narcology of NAMS of Ukraine, MC "Neuron", Merz Investigational Site #3800018 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kharkiv | Ukraine | Unknown status |
| Lviv regional clinical hospital; Merz investigational site # 3800020 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lviv | Ukraine | Unknown status |
| Rivne City Hospital 2, Department of Clinical Neurology and Neurorehabilitation; Merz investigational site #3800016 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rivne | Ukraine | Unknown status |
| NPE "Regional Clinical Centre of Neurosurgery and Neurology" Transcarpathian Regional Council; Merz investigational site #3800014 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Uzhhorod | Ukraine | Unknown status |
| Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at University of Alabama at Birmingham; Merz investigational site #0010479 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Birmingham | United States | Unknown status |
| Nova Clinical Research, Merz investigational site #0010474 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Brandenton | United States | Unknown status |
| Howard A. Rusk Rehabilitation Center; Merz investigational site #0010283 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Columbia | United States | Unknown status |
| UT Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Merz investigational site #0010082 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Dallas | United States | Unknown status |
| Rancho Research Institute at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center; Merz investigational site #0010184 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Downey | United States | Unknown status |
| Neurology Center of New England P.C., Merz investigative site #0010476 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Foxborough | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Texas Health Science Center McGovern, Medical School Department of PM&R; merz investigational site #0010183 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Houston | United States | Unknown status |
| Brooks Rehabilitation Clinical Integration and Research, Merz investigational site #0010483 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Jacksonville | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Merz investigational site #0010481 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Little Rock | United States | Unknown status |
| Medical College of Wisconsin,Department of PM&R, Merz Investigational Site #0010237 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Milwaukee | United States | Unknown status |
| Weill Cornell Medical Center, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine; Merz Investigational Site #0010440 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Unknown status |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Neurology Department, Merz Investigational Site #0010191 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Physical Medicine & Rehabiliation, Merz Investigational Site #0010211 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Pittsburgh | United States | Unknown status |
| Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, Rehabilitation Medicine, Merz investigational site #0010478 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Sarasota | United States | Unknown status |
| New England institute for clinical research; Merz Investigational Site #0010441 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Stamford | United States | Unknown status |
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