E.1 Medical condition or disease under investigation |
E.1.1 | Medical condition(s) being investigated |
1. Healthy subjects
2. Symptomatic UCD patients with genetically confirmed
CPSD, OTCD, ASSD, or ASLD
3. Asymptomatic carriers of UCD mutations (e.g. parents) |
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E.1.1.2 | Therapeutic area | Diseases [C] - Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases [C18] |
MedDRA Classification |
E.1.2 Medical condition or disease under investigation |
E.1.2 | Version | 14.0 |
E.1.2 | Level | LLT |
E.1.2 | Classification code | 10013373 |
E.1.2 | Term | Disorders of urea cycle metabolism |
E.1.2 | System Organ Class | 10027433 - Metabolism and nutrition disorders |
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E.1.3 | Condition being studied is a rare disease | Yes |
E.2 Objective of the trial |
E.2.1 | Main objective of the trial |
• To investigate the performance of the urea cycle in healthy subjects,
patients with urea cycle disorders (UCD), and carriers of UCD mutations
by use of the 13C-ureagenesis assay.
• To compare the performance of the urea cycle with respect to the
genotype and to the clinical phenotype. |
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E.2.2 | Secondary objectives of the trial | |
E.2.3 | Trial contains a sub-study | No |
E.3 | Principal inclusion criteria |
All study groups:
• Written informed consent given by subjects or his/her parents/legal guardians who are able to understand and follow instructions related to the study
Group 1:
• Age: 18 - 65 years
• Healthy subjects
• No clinical or laboratory parameter outside normal ranges at
screening and judged as clinically relevant by the investigator
Group 2:
Age: 0 - 65 years
• Symptomatic subjects with genetically confirmed
• Carbamylphosphate synthetase I Deficiency [CPSD]
• Ornithine Transcarbamylase Deficiency [OTCD]
• Argininosuccinate Synthetase Deficiency [Citrullinaemia type I]
• Argininosuccinate Lyase Deficiency [ASLD]
• at least 1 metabolic decompensation with clinical signs ofhyperammonemia in medical history or genetically confirmed and
prospectively treated siblings of symptomatic patients, even without clinical symptoms
• Confirmed diagnosis and medical history available (in particular
number and severity of metabolic crises)
Group 3:
• Age: 0 - 65 years
• Asymptomatic carriers of mutations for
• Carbamylphosphate synthetase I Deficiency [CPSD]
• Ornithine Transcarbamylase Deficiency [OTCD]
• Argininosuccinate Synthetase Deficiency [Citrullinaemia type 1]
• Argininosuccinate Lyase Deficiency [ASLD]
• no dietary protein restriction, no intake of ammonia scavenging drugs, no known metabolic decompensation with clinical signs of
hyperammonemia |
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E.4 | Principal exclusion criteria |
• Acute illness, including vomiting, fever or other sign of infection
• Participation in other invasive clinical trials within 30 days prior to
inclusion
• Liver or renal disease
• Acute seizures
• Coma
• Bleeding disorder
• Blood ammonia > 100 μmol/l for patients with a urea cycle disorder and blood ammonia > normal for healthy probands and asymptomatic carriers
• Metabolic acidosis
• Pregnancy or lactation
• Body weight < 8 kg |
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E.5 End points |
E.5.1 | Primary end point(s) |
Formation of 13C-urea in plasma |
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E.5.2 | Secondary end point(s) |
Diagnostic variables (to be assessed retrospectively in UCD subjects)
• Laboratory parameters: all ammonia and glutamine levels in plasma (in history)
• History of protein intake (if applicable)
• Nutritional status (in history)
• DNA mutation (at study entry or after evaluation for patients that do not provide such data already)
• Number, duration and severity of metabolic crises (e.g. number of hospitalizations due to crises, maximal ammonia concentration and duration of ammonia elevation, coma yes/no) (in history)
• Use of ammonia scavenging drugs (in history)
• Intake of arginine, citrulline (apart from ASSD) and amino acid
mixture (in history)
• Neurological status (in history)
Safety and metabolic variables (to be assessed in all subjects):
• Vital signs (blood pressure, heart rate, temperature and respiratory rate at enrollment and after completion)
• Complete blood count without differential (immediately after
enrollment)
• Adverse events
• Ammonia, Amino acids (immediately after enrollment, 0 min), Urea in serum (only 0 min)
• CRP (immediately after enrollment)
• Venous lactate and blood gases: pH, pCO2, pO2, bicarbonate
(immediately after enrollment)
• Blood glucose (immediately after enrollment and hourly during the 13C assay) |
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E.6 and E.7 Scope of the trial |
E.6 | Scope of the trial |
E.6.1 | Diagnosis | Yes |
E.6.2 | Prophylaxis | No |
E.6.3 | Therapy | No |
E.6.4 | Safety | No |
E.6.5 | Efficacy | No |
E.6.6 | Pharmacokinetic | No |
E.6.7 | Pharmacodynamic | No |
E.6.8 | Bioequivalence | No |
E.6.9 | Dose response | No |
E.6.10 | Pharmacogenetic | No |
E.6.11 | Pharmacogenomic | No |
E.6.12 | Pharmacoeconomic | No |
E.6.13 | Others | No |
E.7 | Trial type and phase |
E.7.1 | Human pharmacology (Phase I) | Yes |
E.7.1.1 | First administration to humans | No |
E.7.1.2 | Bioequivalence study | No |
E.7.1.3 | Other | Yes |
E.7.1.3.1 | Other trial type description |
Evaluation of diagnostic method |
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E.7.2 | Therapeutic exploratory (Phase II) | No |
E.7.3 | Therapeutic confirmatory (Phase III) | No |
E.7.4 | Therapeutic use (Phase IV) | No |
E.8 Design of the trial |
E.8.1 | Controlled | No |
E.8.1.1 | Randomised | No |
E.8.1.2 | Open | No |
E.8.1.3 | Single blind | No |
E.8.1.4 | Double blind | No |
E.8.1.5 | Parallel group | No |
E.8.1.6 | Cross over | No |
E.8.1.7 | Other | No |
E.8.2 | Comparator of controlled trial |
E.8.2.1 | Other medicinal product(s) | No |
E.8.2.2 | Placebo | No |
E.8.2.3 | Other | No |
E.8.3 |
The trial involves single site in the Member State concerned
| No |
E.8.4 | The trial involves multiple sites in the Member State concerned | Yes |
E.8.4.1 | Number of sites anticipated in Member State concerned | 5 |
E.8.5 | The trial involves multiple Member States | No |
E.8.6 Trial involving sites outside the EEA |
E.8.6.1 | Trial being conducted both within and outside the EEA | No |
E.8.6.2 | Trial being conducted completely outside of the EEA | No |
E.8.7 | Trial has a data monitoring committee | No |
E.8.8 |
Definition of the end of the trial and justification where it is not the last
visit of the last subject undergoing the trial
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E.8.9 Initial estimate of the duration of the trial |
E.8.9.1 | In the Member State concerned years | |
E.8.9.1 | In the Member State concerned months | 3 |
E.8.9.1 | In the Member State concerned days | |
E.8.9.2 | In all countries concerned by the trial months | 3 |