A Study of the Efficacy and Safety of ABH001 in the Treatment of Patients With Epidermolysis Bullosa Who Have Wounds That Are Not Healing
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01749306 |
Recruitment Status :
Terminated
First Posted : December 13, 2012
Last Update Posted : November 21, 2013
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The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of ABH001 in the treatment of patients with epidermolysis bullosa who have wounds that are not healing.
It is hypothesized that ABH001 may initiate and continue wound healing in patients with epidermolysis bullosa.
Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Epidermolysis Bullosa | Biological: ABH001 Other: Control wound treatment | Phase 3 |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 1 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | A Multicenter, Prospective, Randomized, Open-label, Intra-subject Controlled Study of the Efficacy and Safety of ABH001 for the Treatment of Stalled Chronic Cutaneous Wounds Associated With Generalized Epidermolysis Bullosa |
Study Start Date : | December 2012 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | November 2013 |
Estimated Study Completion Date : | November 2013 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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ABH001
ABH001 application plus wound care dressings.
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Biological: ABH001
ABH001 applications topically every 4 weeks (±1 week) with protocol-specified dressings until wound healed or up to 44 weeks
Other Name: Dermagraft, Allogenic Neonatal Dermal Fibroblasts Seeded on poly(glycolide-co-L-lactide) (PGLLA) Scaffold |
Control
Control wound treatment
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Other: Control wound treatment
Control wound care with protocol-specified dressings every 4 weeks (±1 week) up to 20 weeks with optional cross-over to ABH001 for additional 20 weeks |
- Reduction in wound surface area [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]
- Change in wound pain and wound itch [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]
- Patient global impression of change (PGIC) [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]
- Clinician global impression of change (CGIC) [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]
- Proportion of subjects achieving reduction in wound surface area [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]
- Time to reduction of wound surface area and duration of reduction [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]
- Durability of wound healing [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]
- Incidence, relatedness and severity of adverse events [ Time Frame: Up to 48 Weeks ]

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Ages Eligible for Study: | Child, Adult, Older Adult |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- The subject or legal guardian must have read, understood and signed an Institutional Review Board/Ethics Committee (IRB/EC) approved Informed Consent or Assent Form and must be able to and willing to follow study procedures and instructions
- Male and female subjects.
- Stable nutritional status.
- Subjects with a confirmed diagnosis of generalized Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB)
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Cutaneous wounds meeting the following criteria:
- Anatomical location: arms, legs, thorax, or back above the waistline and below the neck.
- Documented age (duration) of the wound(s).
- One or more wounds capable of potentially meeting the following wound selection criteria at the end of the observation period:
i. Two clinically non-infected cutaneous wounds with no clinically meaningful change in wound size during the observation period.
ii. Two matched wounds.
- Negative urine pregnancy test for women of child-bearing potential.
- Female subjects of childbearing potential and male subjects of procreative capacity must agree to use an effective method of contraception.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pregnant or nursing women.
- Diagnosis of non-genetic generalized EB.
- Localized, active clinical infection of study wounds.
- Diseases or conditions that could interfere with the assessment of safety and efficacy of the study treatment and compliance of the subject with study visits/procedures.
- Known allergy to bovine products.
- Known allergy to silver products.
- Systemic infection at the time of enrolment in the study.
- Currently receiving or have received oral steroid therapy within the previous 4 weeks.
- Taking, or have participated in other clinical studies involving gene therapy, stem cell therapy, recombinant DNA/protein therapy.
- Received ABH001, or other biologic or cell therapy for the treatment of EB in the study wound sites within the previous 3 months.
- Hypersensitivity to any of the therapeutic agents.
- History of malignant skin disease.

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01749306
United States, Arizona | |
Phoenix Children's Hospital | |
Phoenix, Arizona, United States | |
United States, California | |
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University | |
Redwood City, California, United States | |
Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego/UCSD, Pediatric and Adolescent Dermatology | |
San Diego, California, United States, 92123 | |
United States, Colorado | |
Denver Children's Hospital | |
Aurora, Colorado, United States, 80045 | |
United States, Illinois | |
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago | |
Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611 | |
United States, Virginia | |
Virginia Clinical Research, Inc | |
Norfolk, Virginia, United States, 23507 | |
Austria | |
Landeskrankenhaus Salzburg-Universitätsklinikum der Paracelsus Medizinischen Privatuniversität | |
Salzburg, Austria | |
Canada, Ontario | |
Toronto Regional Wound Healing Clinic | |
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | |
Canada, Quebec | |
University of Montreal | |
Montreal, Quebec, Canada | |
France | |
Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades | |
Paris, Ile-De France, France | |
Germany | |
University of Freiburg (Studiensekretariat Hautklinik Universitätsklinikum Freiburg - Hautklinik) | |
Freiburg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany | |
Poland | |
Warszawki Uniwersytet Medyczny Katedra I Klinika Dermatologiczna | |
Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland | |
Portugal | |
Hospital CUF Descobertas | |
Lisboa, Portugal | |
Spain | |
Hospital Universitario La Paz | |
Madrid, Spain |
Principal Investigator: | Alan Arbuckle, MD, FAAD, FAAP | H&E Enterprises |
Responsible Party: | Shire Regenerative Medicine, Inc. |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01749306 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
EB01-ABH001 2012-001815-21 ( EudraCT Number ) |
First Posted: | December 13, 2012 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | November 21, 2013 |
Last Verified: | November 2013 |
epidermolysis bullosa, chronic wound, wound healing, dermal repair, fibroblasts, Dermagraft |
Epidermolysis Bullosa Skin Abnormalities Congenital Abnormalities Skin Diseases, Genetic |
Genetic Diseases, Inborn Skin Diseases Skin Diseases, Vesiculobullous |