Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 5:56 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 5:56 PM
NCT ID:
NCT00491868
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
* Patients who have been receiving hemodialysis 3 times a week for at least 12 weeks before registration
* Patients aged ≥ 20 years at the time of obtaining consent
* Patients who have been receiving a rHuEPO preparation at least once a week for at least 8 weeks before registration
* Within 4 weeks before registration, patients who have been receiving a rHuEPO preparation 750IU (3 times a week), 1,500IU (twice a week (1st and 2nd hemodialysis day of the week, or1st and 3rd hemodialysis day of the week)), 1,500IU (3 times a week), or 3,000IU (twice a week (1st and 2nd hemodialysis day of the week, or1st and 3rd hemodialysis day of the week)), and patients who have not change dosage and administration.
* Patients whose pre-dialysis Hb concentrations has been between ≥ 9.0 g/dL and ≤12.0 g/dL and mean value of pre-dialysis Hb concentrations has been between ≥ 9.5 g/dL and ≤11.5 g/dL determined at the beginning of each week within 8 weeks before registration
* Patients whose transferrin saturation has been ≥ 20 % or ferritin has been ≥ 100ng/mL at any time point within 8 weeks before registration
Exclusion Criteria:
* Patients with hardly controllable hypertension (patients whose diastolic blood pressure has been ≥ 100 mmHg on more than 1/3 of the determining occasions within 12 weeks before registration)
* Patients with congestive cardiac failure (≥ Class III in NYHA cardiac function classification)
* Female patients who are pregnant, lactating, possibly pregnant or not willing to take a contraceptive measure in the period from the day of starting the treatment with the study drug to 90 days after the day of the last dose of the study drug
* Patients with complication of myocardial infarction, pulmonary infarction or cerebral infarction (excluding asymptomatic cerebral infarction)
* Patients confirmed to have serious allergy or serious drug allergy (shock, anaphylactoid symptom)
* Patients hypersensitive to a rHuEPO preparation
* Patients with malignant tumor (including hemic malignant tumor), severe infection, systemic hemic disease (osteomyelodysplasia syndrome, hemoglobinopathy, etc.), hemolytic anemia or apparent hemorrhagic lesion such as digestive tract hemorrhage
* Patients who have received an anabolic hormone preparation, testosterone enanthate, testosterone propionate, methyltestosterone or mepitiostane within 12 weeks before registration
* Patients who have received another investigational drug within 12 weeks before registration
* Patients who have received R744 before registration
* Patients whose AST(GOT) value ≥ 100 IU/L or ALT(GPT) value ≥ 100 IU/L before registration
* Patients who have received erythrocyte transfusion within 16 weeks before registration
* Patients for whom a surgical operation accompanied by marked bleeding is planned during the study period
* In addition, patients who are judged as ineligible to participate in this study by the investigator or subinvestigator
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
20 Years
Study:
NCT00491868
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT00491868