NCT04244175CompletedPhase 2
A Trial of the Efficacy and Safety of CVL-865 as Adjunctive Therapy in the Treatment of Focal Onset Seizures
A Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Parallel Group, Multicenter Trial of CVL-865 as Adjunctive Therapy in Adults With Drug-Resistant Focal Onset Seizures (REALIZE Trial)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 30 May 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if CVL-865, when taken regularly with other anti-seizure medicines, works to prevent seizures in adults with drug-resistant focal onset seizures. It will also learn about the safety of CVL-865. The main question it aims to answer is whether CVL-865, when taken regularly with other anti-seizure medicines, lowers the number of seizures in those with a diagnosis of epilepsy with drug-resistant focal onset seizures. This study has an 8-week Screening/Baseline Period, a 13-week Treatment Period (including a 2-week Titration Phase, an 8-week Maintenance Phase, and a 3-week Taper Phase), and a 4-week Safety Follow-Up Period. Participants will take CVL-865 or a placebo twice a day during the 10-13 week Treatment Period, visit the clinic every few weeks for checkups, tests, and surveys, and fill out an e-Diary.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 2
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 154 (actual)
- First submitted
- 24 Jan 2020
- Start date
- 27 Jan 2020
- Primary completion date
- 21 May 2024
- Lead sponsor
- AbbVie
- Diseases
- Epilepsy
- NCT number
- NCT04244175
- EudraCT number
- 2019-002576-14
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 2
- Participants enrolled: 154
- From 27 Jan 2020 to the primary completion date, 21 May 2024
- 72 sites in 7 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
- Participants with a history of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures within the year prior to signing the ICF
- Participants with a history of status epilepticus within 5 years prior to signing the ICF
- Participants with a history of neurosurgery for seizures less than 1 year prior to signing the ICF, or radiosurgery less than 2 years prior to signing the ICF
- Use of prohibited medications as listed in the protocol in the absence of appropriate washout phase or the likelihood of requiring treatment during the study period with drugs not permitted by the study protocol
- Female participants who are breastfeeding and/or who have a positive pregnancy test result prior to receiving IMP
- Participants who have participated in any clinical trial within 60 days prior to signing the ICF or who have participated in more than 2 clinical trials within the year prior to signing the ICF
Other illness
- Participants with (genetic) idiopathic generalized epilepsies or combined generalized and focal epilepsies, including a history of Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome
- Participants with a history of seizures over the past 12 months that occur at such a high frequency they cannot be counted (eg, repetitive seizures, cluster seizures)
- Participants with a current history of significant cardiovascular, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, renal, hepatic, metabolic, hematological, immunological, or neurological (excluding focal onset epilepsy) disease
- Participants who test positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B and/or or hepatitis C infection
- Participants taking any drug that is a sensitive P-glycoprotein (P-gp) and Breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP) substrate
- Participants who are known to be allergic or hypersensitive to the IMP or any of its components
Lab values
- Participants with a 12-lead ECG demonstrating : QT interval corrected for heart rate using Fridericia's formula \>450 milliseconds (msec) (average of 3 ECGs obtained at the Screening Visit); QRS interval \>120 msec at the Screening Visit assessed by central reader
- Participants with abnormal laboratory test results which includes (Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) or Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) elevated to \>2 × Upper limit of normal range (ULN); Total bilirubin greater than or equal to (\>=)1.5 × ULN; Females: Hemoglobin \<11 gram per deciliter (g/dL); Males: hemoglobin \<12 g/dL; White blood cell (WBC) count \<3.0 x 10 power 9 per liter (10\^9/L); Neutrophil count \<2.0 x 10\^9/L; Platelet count \<150 × 10\^9/L
Other
- Participants with difficulty swallowing
- Participants who answer "Yes" on the C-SSRS Suicidal Ideation Item 4 (Active Suicidal Ideation with Some Intent to Act, Without Specific Plan) and whose most recent episode meeting criteria for this C-SSRS Item 4 occurred within the last 6 months, OR Subjects who answer "Yes" on the C-SSRS Suicidal Ideation Item 5 (Active Suicidal Ideation with Specific Plan and Intent) and whose most recent episode meeting criteria for this CSSRS Item 5 occurred within the last 6 months OR Subjects who answer "Yes" on any of the 5 C-SSRS Suicidal Behavior Items (actual attempt, interrupted attempt, aborted attempt, preparatory acts, or behavior) and whose most recent episode meeting criteria for any of these 5 C-SSRS Suicidal Behavior Items occurred in the last 2 years
Who the study is looking for
- Participants with a diagnosis of epilepsy with focal onset, as defined in the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) Classification of Seizures, focal aware (except participants with only focal aware seizures without a motor component), focal impaired awareness, and focal to bilateral tonic-clonic seizures for at least 2 years prior to signing the Informed Consent Form (ICF)
- Participants must have history of an average of 4 or more spontaneous and observable focal onset, as defined in the ILAE Classification of Seizures, focal aware (except participants with only focal aware seizures without a motor component), focal impaired awareness, and focal to bilateral tonic-clonic seizures per 28-day period for at least 3 months (84 days) prior to signing the ICF
- Participants who have tried and failed at least 2 appropriate Anti- epileptic drugs (AEDs) in the past and also currently taking 1 to 3 permitted AEDs at a stable dose for 4 Weeks prior to the Screening Visit
- Participants with a minimum of 8 focal onset, focal aware, focal impaired awareness, or focal to bilateral tonic-clonic seizures during the 8 week baseline period with no 21-day period free of any of these seizure types
- Participants must have had magnetic resonance imaging or contrast enhance computed tomography scan of the brain that demonstrated no progressive structural central nervous system abnormality at the time of the diagnosis of epilepsy
- Participants must have a body mass index (BMI) of 17.5 to 40.0 kilogram per meter square (kg/m\^2) and a total body weight greater than (\>) 50 kilograms (kg) \[110 pounds (lbs)\]
- Women of childbearing potential must agree to use an effective method of contraception from signing of informed consent throughout the duration of the study and for 30 days post last dose
- Male must agree to use condom during treatment and until the end of relevant systemic exposure in the male participant for 94 days following the last dose with Investigational Manufacturing Product (IMP)
Age in the registry: 18 years to 75 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (72)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camperdown, New South Wales Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Camperdown | Australia | Unknown status |
| Fitzroy, Victoria Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Fitzroy | Australia | Unknown status |
| Heidelberg, Victoria Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Heidelberg | Australia | Unknown status |
| Herston, Queensland Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Herston | Australia | Unknown status |
| Melbourne, Victoria Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Melbourne | Australia | Unknown status |
| Parkville, Victoria Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Parkville | Australia | Unknown status |
| Randwick, New South Wales Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Randwick | Australia | Unknown status |
| South Brisbane, Queensland Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | South Brisbane | Australia | Unknown status |
| Westmead, New South Wales Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Westmead | Australia | Unknown status |
| Barcelona, Catalunya Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Barcelona | Spain | Unknown status |
| Barcelona Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Barcelona | Spain | Unknown status |
| Madrid Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madrid | Spain | Unknown status |
| Malaga, Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Málaga | Spain | Unknown status |
| Navarra Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Navarro | Spain | Unknown status |
| Sevilla Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seville | Spain | Unknown status |
| Terrassa Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Terrassa | Spain | Unknown status |
| Valencia Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Valencia | Spain | Unknown status |
| Gwangjin-gu, Seoul Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Gwangju | South Korea | Unknown status |
| Irwon-Ro Gangnam-gu., Seoul Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Irwon-dong | South Korea | Unknown status |
| Białystok Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bialystok | Poland | Unknown status |
| Bydgoszcz, Kujawsko-Pomorskie Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bydgoszcz | Poland | Unknown status |
| Gdańsk, Pomorskie Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Gdansk | Poland | Unknown status |
| Kraków, Malopolskie Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Krakow | Poland | Unknown status |
| Lodz Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lodz | Poland | Unknown status |
| Lublin Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lublin | Poland | Unknown status |
| Warszawa Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Warsaw | Poland | Unknown status |
| Warszawa, Mazowieckie Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Warsaw | Poland | Unknown status |
| Wojnicz, Lskie Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Wojnicz | Poland | Unknown status |
| Belgrade, Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Belgrade | Serbia | Unknown status |
| Clinic of Neurology, Belgrade Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Belgrade | Serbia | Unknown status |
| Neurology Department, Kragujevac Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kragujevac | Serbia | Unknown status |
| Kragujevac, Sumadija Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kragujevac | Serbia | Unknown status |
| Niš Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Niš | Serbia | Unknown status |
| Kyiv Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kyiv | Ukraine | Unknown status |
| Lviv Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lviv | Ukraine | Unknown status |
| Uzhgorod Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Uzhhorod | Ukraine | Unknown status |
| Altamonte Springs, Florida Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Altamonte Springs | United States | Unknown status |
| Baltimore, Maryland Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Baltimore | United States | Unknown status |
| Bethesda, Maryland Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bethesda | United States | Unknown status |
| Boston, Massachusetts Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Boston | United States | Unknown status |
| Charleston, South Carolina Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Charleston | United States | Unknown status |
| Chesterfield, Missouri Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chesterfield | United States | Unknown status |
| Columbus, Ohio Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Columbus | United States | Unknown status |
| Downey, California Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Downey | United States | Unknown status |
| Gulf Breeze, Florida Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Gulf Breeze | United States | Unknown status |
| Hackensack, New Jersey Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hackensack | United States | Unknown status |
| Homestead, Florida Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Homestead | United States | Unknown status |
| Honolulu, Hawaii Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Honolulu | United States | Unknown status |
| Jacksonville, Florida Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Jacksonville | United States | Unknown status |
| Lexington, Kentucky Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lexington | United States | Unknown status |
| Little Rock, Arkansas Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Little Rock | United States | Unknown status |
| Loma Linda, California Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Loma Linda | United States | Unknown status |
| Miami, Florida Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Miami | United States | Unknown status |
| Miami Lakes, Florida Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Miami Lakes | United States | Unknown status |
| Mineola, New York Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Mineola | United States | Unknown status |
| Nashville, Tennessee Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nashville | United States | Unknown status |
| New Haven, Connecticut Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New Haven | United States | Unknown status |
| New York Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Unknown status |
| Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Oklahoma City | United States | Unknown status |
| Orlando, Florida Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Orlando | United States | Unknown status |
| Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Philadelphia | United States | Unknown status |
| Port Charlotte, Florida Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Port Charlotte | United States | Unknown status |
| Port Orange, Florida Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Port Orange | United States | Unknown status |
| Rochester, New York Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rochester | United States | Unknown status |
| Salt Lake City, Utah Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Salt Lake City | United States | Unknown status |
| Scarborough, Maine Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Scarborough | United States | Unknown status |
| Saint Louis, Missouri Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | St Louis | United States | Unknown status |
| Suwanee, Georgia, Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Suwanee | United States | Unknown status |
| Syracuse, New York Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Syracuse | United States | Unknown status |
| Tampa, Florida Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tampa | United States | Unknown status |
| Toledo, Ohio Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Toledo | United States | Unknown status |
| Valencia, California Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Valencia | United States | Unknown status |
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