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NCT Number: NCT01081678

Study To Assess FRacTure Healing With SclerosTin Antibody - Hip

This is an international, multi-center study to determine the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of romosozumab (AMG 785) in adults with a fresh unilateral hip fracture, status post surgical fixation.

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Key information

Conditions

Fracture Healing Femoral Fractures Fractures, Bone Hip Fractures Hip Injuries Leg Injuries Wounds and Injuries

Age range

55 year–95 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 2

Primary location

Research Site, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Males and females, age 55 to 95 years
  • fresh unilateral low energy intertrochanteric or femoral neck fracture as the primary injury, confirmed by X-ray and in the opinion of the treating surgeon amenable to repair by internal fixation
  • internal fixation of the fracture with devices approved by local regulatory agency, performed no later than 7 days after injury for intertrochanteric or undisplaced femoral neck fractures and no later than 2 days after injury for displaced femoral neck fractures
  • intertrochanteric fracture: sliding hip screw or IM nail
  • femoral neck fracture: sliding hip screw or at least 3 cancellous screws

Exclusion criteria

  • severe symptomatic osteoarthritis of the lower extremity
  • inability to independently rise from armchair or walk 200 meters before hip fracture
  • presence of concomitant injuries such as rib fractures, wrist fractures, or acute symptomatic vertebral fractures which severely impair the ability to rise from a chair
  • associated extremity injuries including ipsilateral or contralateral fractures of the foot, tibia or fibula, wrist, humerus, femoral shaft, femoral head or hip dislocation, that may delay weight-bearing beyond one week after surgery
  • head-injury, as defined by Glasgow Coma Scale < 13 prior to randomization
  • use of bone grafts or bone substitutes at the time of fracture fixation
  • major polytrauma or significant axial trauma, with Injury Severity Score > 16
  • pathological fracture or history of metabolic or bone disease (except osteoporosis) that may interfere with the interpretation of the results, such as Paget's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, osteomalacia, osteopetrosis, ankylosing spondylitis, Cushing's disease, hyperprolactinemia
  • history of symptomatic spinal stenosis that has not been surgically corrected. If surgically corrected, the subject must be asymptomatic to be eligible for the study.
  • history of facial nerve paralysis
  • malignancy (except fully resected cutaneous basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma, cervical carcinoma in situ) within the last 5 years
  • history of solid organ or bone marrow transplants
  • evidence of elevated transaminases (≥ 2.0 x upper limits of normal) or significantly impaired renal function (creatinine clearance of ≤ 30 mL/min)
  • evidence of current hypercalcemia or hypocalcemia (outside of 1.1 x the normal range)
  • bone morphogenic proteins (BMP)-2 or BMP-7 at the time of definitive fracture fixation

Treatment and study plan

Placebo

Drug

Administered by subcutaneous (under the skin) injection

Romosozumab

Drug

Administered by subcutaneous injection

Other names: AMG 785, Evenity

Primary outcomes

  1. Timed-Up-and-Go (TUG) Over Week 6 Through Week 20

    Time frame: Weeks 6, 12, 16, and 20

    Functional healing was measured by the timed-up-and-go test (TUG) over Weeks 6 through 20. During this assessment, the clinician timed the participant while they stood up from a seated position in a chair, walked three meters, turned around, walked three meters back to the chair, and returned to the seated position. A TUG value of ten seconds or less was considered normal for a healthy elderly person. Higher TUG values after hip fracture have been shown to be a predictor of future falls.

    Least squares mean (LSM) estimates were based on a repeated measures model fitted with the log-transformed TUG values at weeks 2, 6, 12, 16, 20, 24, 36, 52 as the dependent variable and adjusted for treatment, randomized strata, gender, country category, pre-fracture community-dwelling status, pre-fracture walking aid use, quality of surgical fixation, visit, and treatment-by-visit interaction and back-transformed using the exponential transformation.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Timed-Up-and-Go (TUG) at Each Visit

    Time frame: Weeks 2, 6, 12, 16, 20, 24, 36, and 52

    During the timed-up-and-go test the clinician timed the participant while they stood up from a seated position in a chair, walked 3 meters, turned around, walked 3 meters back to the chair, and returned to a seated position. A TUG value of ≤ 10 seconds is considered normal for a healthy elderly person.

    LSMs were based on a repeated measures model adjusting for treatment, randomized strata, gender, country category, pre-fracture community-dwelling status, pre-fracture walking aid use, quality of surgical fixation, visit, and treatment-by-visit interaction.

    Missing TUG values for participants still on study were imputed using the last observation carried forward (LOCF) when possible. If no observation could be carried forward, the maximum TUG value observed among all participants at a given visit was used. TUG values obtained after unplanned revision surgery were replaced by carrying forward the last available observed or imputed value prior to unplanned revision surgery.

  2. Time to Radiographic Healing

    Time frame: 52 weeks

    Time to radiographic healing is the time interval from the surgery date for the eligible hip fracture to the date of radiographic healing, defined as effacement of the fracture lines by newly formed bone along the cortices and within the trabecular bone on anteroposterior and lateral (or oblique) radiographs. Radiographic fracture healing was determined by a panel of independent reviewers blinded to treatment.

    The cumulative incidence function (CIF) method was used to estimate the median time to radiographic healing and the confidence intervals. Unplanned revision surgery to promote healing was considered a competing risk in CIF estimate.

  3. Radiographic Union Scale for Hip (RUSH) Score At Each Visit

    Time frame: Weeks 2, 6, 12, 16, 20, 24, 36, and 52

    The radiographic Union Scale for Hip (RUSH) is a semiquantitative scoring assessment to assess hip fracture healing after surgical repair. The RUSH has 4 key domains based on radiographic parameters used by orthopedic surgeons and radiologists in routine clinical practice including cortical bridging (4 to 12 points), cortical fracture line disappearance (4 to 12 points), trabecular consolidation (1 to 3 points), and trabecular index disappearance of fracture line (1 to 3 points). The score has a minimum of 10 points (definitely not healed) and a maximum of 30 points (definitely healed).

  4. Harris Hip Score At Each Visit

    Time frame: Weeks 2, 6, 12, 16, 20, 24, 36, and 52

    The Harris Hip Score is a clinician-based outcome that assesses pain, function, deformity, and range of motion. The pain domain measures pain severity and its effect on activities and need for pain medication. The function domain consists of daily activities and gait. Deformity takes into account hip flexion, adduction, internal rotation, and extremity length discrepancy. Range of motion measures hip flexion, abduction, external and internal rotation, and adduction. The score ranges form 0-100 (best possible outcome) covering pain (0-44 points), function (0-47 points), absence of deformity (4 points), and range of motion (5 points). LSMs were based on a repeated measures model fitted with the Harris hip score values at weeks 2, 6, 12, 16, 20, 24, 36, and 52 as the dependent variable and adjusted for treatment, randomized strata, gender, pre-fracture community-dwelling status, pre-fracture walking aid use, quality of surgical fixation, visit, and treatment-by-visit interaction.

  5. Hip Pain Score at Each Visit

    Time frame: Weeks 2, 6, 12, 16, 20, 24, 36, and 52

    Hip pain was assessed using a visual analog scale (VAS). Participants were asked to rate their pain as a result of the hip fracture on a 100 mm vertical scale with 0 indicating no pain at all and 100 indicating the worst pain they could imagine.

    LSMs were based on a repeated measures model fitted with hip pain score values at weeks 2, 6, 12, 16, 20, 24, 36, and 52 as the dependent variable and adjusted for treatment, randomized strata, gender, pre-fracture community-dwelling status, pre-fracture walking aid use, quality of surgical fixation, visit, and treatment-by-visit interaction.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Amgen

Industry

Registry information

Official study title

A Multi-center, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Study to Determine the Efficacy, Safety, and Tolerability of AMG 785 in Adults With a Fresh Unilateral Hip Fracture, Status Post Surgical Fixation

Acronym: STARTT-Hip

Important dates

Study start
2010
Primary completion
2012
Study completion
2013
First posted
Mar 5, 2010
Registry last updated
Sep 21, 2022

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