Early Stage Parkinson Disease
Conditions
Keywords
Parkinson Disease
Brief summary
This is a multicenter, randomized, double blind, parallel group study of 6 months' treatment with SLV308 as monotherapy in patients with early stage PD. An open label safety extension to this study is planned as a separate protocol for patients who are willing and eligible to participate.
Interventions
12-42 mg
1.5-4.5 mg
Placebo
Sponsors
Study design
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
* Diagnosis of idiopathic Parkinson's Disease, Modified Hoehn & Yahr up to stage III, UPDRS motor score (part III) must have a total of at least 10 at baseline.
Exclusion criteria
* Diagnosis is unclear or a suspicion of other parkinsonian syndromes, * Patients who have undergone surgery for the treatment of PD, * Current presence of dyskinesias, * Motor fluctuations or loss of postural reflexes, * A history of non-response to an adequate course of l-dopa or a dopamine agonist, * Patients for whom previously treatment with dopamine agonists needed to terminate because of induction of psychosis (i.e. hallucinations) and /or sleep attacks.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| UPDRS part 3 (motor score)and change from baseline to 24 weeks maintenance treatment | 24 weeks |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| UPDRS part 2 (ADL score); CGI-Improvement; PDQ-39 total score: all change from baseline to 24 weeks maintenance treatment. | 24 weeks |
Countries
Australia, Czechia, Estonia, France, Germany, India, Italy, Lithuania, Malaysia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States