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Phase 2 N=154 Randomized Double-blind Treatment

A Trial of the Efficacy and Safety of CVL-865 as Adjunctive Therapy in the Treatment of Focal Onset Seizures

Seizures

Enrolled (actual)
154
Serious AEs
4.6%
Results posted
May 2025
Primary outcome: Primary: Response Ratio (RRatio) — -24.06; -22.45; -25.90; -24.19 RRatio — p==0.986

Study Design & Population

Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 2
Interventions
Placebo (Drug); CVL-865 (Drug)
Age
Adult, Older Adult · 18+ yrs
Sex
All
Sponsor
AbbVie
Primary completion
May 2024

Outcome Measures

OutcomeResultp-value
PRIMARY
Response Ratio (RRatio)
-24.06; -22.45; -25.90; -24.19 =0.986
SECONDARY
Percentage Change From Baseline in Focal Onset Seizure Frequency Per Week Over the Maintenance Phase
-26.2; -27.2; -29.8; -28.5
SECONDARY
Percentage of Participants With 50 Percent (%) Responder Rate
30.0; 34.8; 38.3; 36.6 =0.587
SECONDARY
Percentage of Seizure-free Participants During the Maintenance Phase
6.0; 2.2; 4.3; 3.2 >0.999
SECONDARY
Weekly Seizure Rate During the Maintenance Phase
6.41; 5.20; 2.71; 3.95; 5.66; 4.98
SECONDARY
Patient's Global Impression of Change (PGI-C) Score at Maintenance Phase Days 15, 43, and 71
3.5; 3.3; 3.0; 3.1; 3.5; 3.2 =0.021 sig
SECONDARY
Change From Baseline in Clinical Global Impression-Severity of Symptoms Scale (CGI-S) Score at Maintenance Phase Days 15, 43, and 71
-0.2; 0.0; -0.3; -0.2; -0.2; -0.2 =0.767
SECONDARY
Clinical Global Impression-Improvement Scale (CGI-I) Score at Maintenance Phase Days 15, 43, and 71
3.5; 3.4; 3.1; 3.2; 3.5; 3.3 =0.010 sig
SECONDARY
Change From Baseline in Quality of Life in Epilepsy-31 (QOLIE-31) Overall Score at Maintenance Phase Day 71
0.29; 2.08; 3.70; 2.91 =0.829
SECONDARY
Change From Baseline in Health Utilities Index (HUI) Utility Score at Maintenance Phase Day 71
-0.029; 0.052; -0.014; 0.018; -0.025; 0.110 =0.788
SECONDARY
Number of Participants With Treatment Emergent Adverse Event (TEAEs) and Treatment Emergent Serious Adverse Events (TESAEs)
28; 33; 46; 79; 1; 4
SECONDARY
Number of Participants With Clinically Significant Changes in Electrocardiogram (ECGs)
0; 1; 2; 3; 0; 0
SECONDARY
Number of Participants With Clinically Significant Changes in Vital Sign Measurements
0; 1; 0; 1; 4; 0
SECONDARY
Number of Participants With Clinically Significant Changes in Physical and Neurological Examination Results
3; 1; 2; 3; 5; 1
SECONDARY
Number of Participants With Positive Response to Columbia Suicide-Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS)
0; 0; 2; 2; 0; 0
SECONDARY
Change in Modified Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment - Benzodiazepines (mCIWA-B) From Last On-treatment Assessment
-0.9; 0.7; -1.0; -0.1; -1.7; -0.4
SECONDARY
Number of Participants With Adverse Events That Are Abuse-related or Involve Medication Handling Irregularities (MHI)
9; 10; 20; 30; 0; 0
SECONDARY
Plasma Concentrations of CVL-865 on Maintenance Phase Days 15, 43, and 71, and Taper Phase Day 92
30.99; 69.64; 34.60; 151.63; 32.45; 167.96

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if CVL-865, when taken regularly with other anti-seizure medicines, works to prevent seizures in adults with drug-resistant focal onset seizures. It will also learn about the safety of CVL-865. The main question it aims to answer is whether CVL-865, when taken regularly with other anti-seizure medicines, lowers the number of seizures in those with a diagnosis of epilepsy with drug-resistant focal onset seizures. This study has an 8-week Screening/Baseline Period, a 13-week Treatment Period (including a 2-week Titration Phase, an 8-week Maintenance Phase, and a 3-week Taper Phase), and a 4-week Safety Follow-Up Period. Participants will take CVL-865 or a placebo twice a day during the 10-13 week Treatment Period, visit the clinic every few weeks for checkups, tests, and surveys, and fill out an e-Diary.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • Participants with a diagnosis of epilepsy with focal onset, as defined in the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) Classification of Seizures, focal aware (except participants with only focal aware seizures without a motor component), focal impaired awareness, and focal to bilateral tonic-clonic seizures for at least 2 years prior to signing the Informed Consent Form (ICF)
  • Participants must have history of an average of 4 or more spontaneous and observable focal onset, as defined in the ILAE Classification of Seizures, focal aware (except participants with only focal aware seizures without a motor component), focal impaired awareness, and focal to bilateral tonic-clonic seizures per 28-day period for at least 3 months (84 days) prior to signing the ICF
  • Participants who have tried and failed at least 2 appropriate Anti- epileptic drugs (AEDs) in the past and also currently taking 1 to 3 permitted AEDs at a stable dose for 4 Weeks prior to the Screening Visit
  • Participants with a minimum of 8 focal onset, focal aware, focal impaired awareness, or focal to bilateral tonic-clonic seizures during the 8 week baseline period with no 21-day period free of any of these seizure types
  • Participants must have had magnetic resonance imaging or contrast enhance computed tomography scan of the brain that demonstrated no progressive structural central nervous system abnormality at the time of the diagnosis of epilepsy
  • Participants must have a body mass index (BMI) of 17.5 to 40.0 kilogram per meter square (kg/m^2) and a total body weight greater than (>) 50 kilograms (kg) [110 pounds (lbs)]
  • Women of childbearing potential must agree to use an effective method of contraception from signing of informed consent throughout the duration of the study and for 30 days post last dose
  • Male must agree to use condom during treatment and until the end of relevant systemic exposure in the male participant for 94 days following the last dose with Investigational Manufacturing Product (IMP)

Exclusion Criteria

  • Participants with (genetic) idiopathic generalized epilepsies or combined generalized and focal epilepsies, including a history of Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome
  • Participants with a history of seizures over the past 12 months that occur at such a high frequency they cannot be counted (eg, repetitive seizures, cluster seizures)
  • Participants with a history of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures within the year prior to signing the ICF
  • Participants with a history of status epilepticus within 5 years prior to signing the ICF
  • Participants with a history of neurosurgery for seizures less than 1 year prior to signing the ICF, or radiosurgery less than 2 years prior to signing the ICF
  • Participants with a current history of significant cardiovascular, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, renal, hepatic, metabolic, hematological, immunological, or neurological (excluding focal onset epilepsy) disease
  • Participants who test positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B and/or or hepatitis C infection
  • Participants with a 12-lead ECG demonstrating : QT interval corrected for heart rate using Fridericia's formula >450 milliseconds (msec) (average of 3 ECGs obtained at the Screening Visit); QRS interval >120 msec at the Screening Visit assessed by central reader
  • Participants with abnormal laboratory test results which includes (Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) or Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) elevated to >2 × Upper limit of normal range (ULN); Total bilirubin greater than or equal to (>=)1.5 × ULN; Females: Hemoglobin <11 gram per deciliter (g/dL); Males: hemoglobin <12 g/dL; White blood cell (WBC) count <3.0 x 10 power 9 per liter (10^9/L); Neutrophil count <2.0 x 10^9/L; Platelet count <150 × 10^9/L
  • Use of prohibited medications as listed in the protocol in the absence of appropriate washout phase or the likelihood of requiring treatment during the study period with drugs not permitted by the study pro
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Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT04244175). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication.

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