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Erectile Dysfunction, Sexual Dysfunction, Spinal Cord Injury

BAY38-9456 - Supportive trial for spinal injury

Trial purpose

BAY 38-9456 10 mg and 20 mg can be given as safe and efficacious medications to patients with spinal cord injury suffering from erectile dysfunction, and that erectile dysfunction can be improved by uptitration to BAY 38-9456 20 mg when the treatment with 10 mg is not sufficiently effective

Key Participants Requirements

Sex

Male

Age

20 - 64 Years
  • - Male with erectile dysfunction according to the NIH Consensus Statement (inability to attain and/or maintain penile erection sufficient for satisfactory sexual performance), solely as a result of a traumatic injury to the spinal cord (suffering more than 6 months ago)
    - Patients answering "yes" to the question regarding the presence of residual erectile function over the past 6 months [At home over the past 6 months, have you experienced at least some enlargement of your penis in response to: (1) mechanical stimulation by yourself or your partner, or (2) visual stimulation?]
  • - History of diabetes mellitus
    - Patients who are taking nitrates or nitric oxide donors
    - Patients who have experienced no enlargement of penis with PDE5 inhibitor and/or who have withdrew the use of PDE5 inhibitor due to ADRs

Trial summary

Enrollment Goal
32
Trial Dates
March 2004 - November 2004
Phase
Phase 3
Could I Receive a placebo
No
Products
Levitra (Vardenafil, BAY38-9456)
Accepts Healthy Volunteer
No

Where to participate

StatusInstitutionLocation
Completed
Beppu, 874-0937, Japan
Completed
Iizuka, 820-0053, Japan
Completed
Nagoya, 455-8530, Japan

Primary Outcome

  • The Erectile Function (EF) domain score of IIEF calculated as the sum of scores from Questions 1 to 5 and 15
    date_rangeTime Frame:
    At 12 weeks after start of study drug administration using data at LOCF to account for dropouts
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    Safety Issue:
    no

Secondary Outcome

  • The Global Assessment Question
    date_rangeTime Frame:
    At 4, 8, 12 weeks after start of study drug administration and LOCF
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    Safety Issue:
    no
  • The IIEF EF domain score
    date_rangeTime Frame:
    At 4, 8, 12 weeks after start of study drug administration
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    Safety Issue:
    no
  • IIEF domain scores other than the EF domain score[intercourse satisfaction (Q6 to Q8), overall satisfaction (Q13, Q14), orgasmic function (Q9, Q10), sexual desire (Q11, Q12)]
    date_rangeTime Frame:
    At 4, 8, 12 weeks after start of study drug administration and LOCF
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    Safety Issue:
    no
  • Scores of Questions 1 to 15 on the IIEF Questionnaire
    date_rangeTime Frame:
    At 4, 8, 12 weeks after start of study drug administration and LOCF
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    Safety Issue:
    no
  • Patient's diary response concerning hardness of erection, maintenance of erection, satisfaction with overall hardness of erection, ability of insertion, overall satisfaction with sexual experience and ejaculation
    date_rangeTime Frame:
    At 4, 8, 12 weeks after start of study drug administration and LOCF
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    Safety Issue:
    no
  • Safety data
    date_rangeTime Frame:
    Throughout the study
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    Safety Issue:
    yes

Trial design

An open, multi-centre, flexible dose uptitration study to investigate the efficacy and safety of vardenafil 10 mg and 20 mg in males with spinal cord injury suffering from erectile dysfunction
Trial Type
Interventional
Intervention Type
Drug
Trial Purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomized
Blinding
Open Label
Assignment
Single Group Assignment
Trial Arms
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