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NCT Number: NCT06447168

A Study Observing Everyday Effectiveness and Safety of the Drug Elafibranor in Participants With Primary Biliary Cholangitis Who Are Receiving Ongoing Treatment

This study will collect information from participants with Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC) as they use the drug elafibranor in real world setting.

PBC is a progressive rare liver disease in which tubes in the liver called bile ducts are damaged.

The liver damage in PBC may lead to scarring (cirrhosis). PBC may also be associated with multiple symptoms including pruritus (itching) and fatigue. Many patients with PBC may require liver transplant or may die if the disease progresses and a liver transplant is not done.

In this study the main aim is to observe the effectiveness, safety and tolerability of elafibranor in participants with PBC who are receiving treatment in real world setting. The total study duration for each participants will be 60 months (approximately 5 years).

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Key information

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

St Vincent's Hospital, Fitzroy, Australia

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Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Participant has provided written informed consent and agrees to comply with the study protocol.
  • Participant with PBC diagnosis.
  • Participant for whom the treating physician has decided to start or participants who are currently receiving treatment with commercialized elafibranor.
  • If a participant has a caregiver who agrees to complete the caregiver questionnaires, an informed consent should be collected from the caregiver before any data is collected.

Exclusion criteria

  • Participant is currently participating or, plans to participate in an investigational drug study or medical device study containing active substance.
  • Participant with known hypersensitivity to the product or to any of its excipients.
  • Participant with mental instability or incompetence, such that the validity of informed consent or ability to be compliant with the study is uncertain.

Treatment and study plan

Primary outcomes

  1. Percentage of participants with response to treatment

    Time frame: At month 6

    Defined as alkaline phosphatase (ALP) <1.67 x upper limit of normal (ULN) and total bilirubin (TB) ≤ULN and ALP decrease ≥15% from baseline.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Percentage of participants with normalization of ALP levels

    Time frame: Up to 60 months following enrollment, based on routine physician follow-up visit

  2. Percentage of participants with response to treatment

    Time frame: Up to 60 months following enrollment, based on routine physician follow-up visits

    Defined as ALP<1.67 x ULN and TB≤ULN and ALP decrease ≥15% from baseline.

  3. Change from baseline in liver function parameters: Serum levels of alanine aminotransferase (ALT)

    Time frame: Up to 60 months following enrollment, based on routine physician follow-up visit

  4. Change from baseline in liver function parameters: Serum levels of Aspartate aminotransferase (AST)

    Time frame: Up to 60 months following enrollment, based on routine physician follow-up visit

  5. Change from baseline in liver function parameters: Serum levels of Gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT)

    Time frame: Up to 60 months following enrollment, based on routine physician follow-up visit

  6. Change from baseline in liver function parameters: Serum levels of TB

    Time frame: Up to 60 months following enrollment, based on routine physician follow-up visit

  7. Change from baseline in liver function parameters: Conjugated (direct) bilirubin

    Time frame: Up to 60 months following enrollment, based on routine physician follow-up visit

  8. Change from baseline in liver function parameters: Serum levels of creatinine

    Time frame: Up to 60 months following enrollment, based on routine physician follow-up visit

  9. Change from baseline in liver function parameters: Serum levels of albumin

    Time frame: Up to 60 months following enrollment, based on routine physician follow-up visit

  10. Change from baseline in pruritus based on PBC Itch score

    Time frame: Up to 60 months following enrollment, based on routine physician follow-up visit

    The PBC Itch score is a simple, self-administered Patient Reported Outcome (PRO) questionnaire that measures itch intensity. It uses 7-day recall periods and asks participants to rate the intensity of their worst itch over the past 7-day period on an 11-point scale ranging from 0 (no itch) to 10 (worst itch imaginable).

  11. Change from baseline in fatigue based on functional assessment of chronic illness therapy-fatigue (FACIT-Fatigue) scale

    Time frame: Up to 60 months following enrollment, based on routine physician follow-up visit

    The FACIT-Fatigue is a 13-item measure that assesses self-reported fatigue and its impact upon daily activities and function. It is a subset of the longer (47-item) Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Anemia (FACT-An), which includes the 27-item FACT-G and a 20-item subscale addressing additional concerns associated with the anemia of cancer and its treatment. This 20-item subscale, referred to as the anemia subscale, is comprised of 13-items that assess fatigue and its impact (the FACIT-Fatigue) and, 7 additional symptoms associated with anemia (e.g. shortness of breath, headache). participants rate their symptoms over the preceding seven days on a verbal response scale, the options range from 'not at all' / 'a little bit' / 'somewhat quite a bit' / very much'.

  12. Change from baseline in sleep based on Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI)

    Time frame: Up to 60 months following enrollment, based on routine physician follow-up visit

    The PSQI was designed to evaluate overall sleep quality in the psychiatric disorders associated with sleep disturbances. Each of the questionnaire's 19-self-reported items belongs to one of seven subcategories: subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep duration, habitual sleep efficiency, sleep disturbances, use of sleeping medication, and daytime dysfunction. Five additional questions rated by the respondent's roommate or bed partner are included for clinical purposes and are not scored.

  13. Change from baseline in Quality Of Life (QoL) based on PBC-40 questionnaire

    Time frame: Up to 60 months following enrollment, based on routine physician follow-up visit

    The PBC-40 is a validated, PBC-specific, health-related Quality Of Life (QoL) questionnaire with 40 questions that assesses symptoms across six domains: fatigue, emotional and social, cognitive function, general symptoms and itch. Participants respond on a verbal response scale, depending on the section options range from 'never' / 'not at all' / 'strongly disagree' to 'always' / 'very much'/ 'strongly agree'. Five items (3/3 in the itch domain and 2/10 in the social domain) also include a 'does not apply' option. A score for each domain is provided (but a total score is not calculated), with each verbal response scale correlating to a score of 1-5 per item (0-5 on items with a 'does not apply' option) with 5 being the most affected.

  14. Change from baseline in QoL based on 5-Dimensional Itch scale (5-D Itch, also known as 5-D pruritus scale)

    Time frame: Up to 60 months following enrollment, based on routine physician follow-up visit

    The 5-D Itch scale assesses symptoms in terms of five domains: degree, duration, direction, disability and distribution. It is a 1 to 5 scale, with 5 being the most affected.

  15. Change from baseline in liver stiffness

    Time frame: Up to 60 months following enrollment, based on routine physician follow-up visit

    Measured by transient elastography (FibroScan®) and enhanced liver fibrosis (ELF) test

  16. Event free survival

    Time frame: From baseline to up to 60 months

    Event free survival from first intake of commercialized elafibranor treatment as prescribed by physician to the first occurrence of any of the following clinical outcome events: (1) death, (2) liver transplant, and (3) liver decompensation.

  17. Percentage of participants experiencing Adverse Events (AEs), Adverse Events of Special Interests (AESIs) and special situations (SS).

    Time frame: From baseline to up to 60 months

    An Adverse event (AE) is any untoward medical occurrence, temporally associated with the use of study intervention, whether or not related to the study intervention. AESIs are AEs that may not be serious but are of special importance to a particular drug or class of drugs.

  18. Participant's satisfaction on treatment

    Time frame: Up to 60 months following enrollment, based on routine physician follow-up visit

    Measured by treatment satisfaction questionnaire for medication (TSQM). The TSQM (version 1.4) has 14 questions divided into 4 subscales: effectiveness (items 1 to 3), side effects (items 4 to 8), convenience (items 9 to 11), and global satisfaction (items 12 to 14).

  19. Participant's adherence to treatment

    Time frame: Up to 60 months following enrollment, based on routine physician follow-up visit

    Adherence to the treatment will be measured based on the participant report of missed doses every month.

  20. Percentage of participants with clinically significant changes in laboratory parameters

    Time frame: Up to 60 months following enrollment, based on routine physician follow-up visit

    Percentage of participants with clinically significant change in laboratory parameters (blood chemistry, hematology and coagulation) will be reported. The clinical significance will be graded by the investigator.

  21. Percentage of participants with clinically significant changes in physical examination

    Time frame: Up to 60 months following enrollment, based on routine physician follow-up visit

    Clinically significant changes in physical examination will be reported. The clinical significance will be graded by the investigator.

  22. Percentage of participants developing clinically significant changes in vital signs

    Time frame: Up to 60 months following enrollment, based on routine physician follow-up visit

    Clinically significant changes in vital signs will be reported. The clinical significance will be graded by the investigator.

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

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CONTACT

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Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Ipsen

Industry

Registry information

Official study title

Prospective Non-interventional, Phase IV Multicentre Study to Assess the Effectiveness, Safety and Tolerability of Elafibranor 80 mg/Day in Participants With Primary Biliary Cholangitis Receiving Treatment in a Real-world Setting.

Acronym: ELFINITY

Important dates

Study start
2024
Primary completion
2032
Study completion
2032
First posted
Jun 6, 2024
Registry last updated
Jul 2, 2026

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