Fremanezumab for the Prevention of Menstrually-related Migraine Attacks

NCT ID: NCT06659120

Last Updated: 2024-10-26

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Total Enrollment

120 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2024-04-09

Study Completion Date

2027-03-31

Brief Summary

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The goal of this observational study is to compare, in real-world clinical practice, the effect of fremanezumab on menstrual migraine to the effect of fremanezumab on non-perimenstrual attacks. The main question it aims to answer is, if menstrually-related migraine attacks respond equally well to anti-CGRP mAb treatment with fremanezumab as non-menstrually-related attacks.

Participants diagnosed with episodic or chronic migraine with menstrually-related migraine with or without aura and treated with fremanzumab according to the SmPC will be required to maintain a headache diary over at least 3 months prior to and 6 months after fremanezumab initiation.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Menstrual Migraine

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Women with menstrually-related migraine attacks

* Premenopausal women of 18 years of age or older.
* Women with a regular cycle 21-32 days.
* The patient has a diagnosis of chronic or episodic migraine.
* Women suffering from migraine with or without aura according to International Headache Society (IHS) Classification (ICHD-3 code A1.1.2 or A1.2.0.2) for at least one year.
* Women suffering of at least 2 days of menstrually-related migraine per period on average in the last three periods (baseline measurements and inclusion criteria).

Fremanezumab

Intervention Type DRUG

Initiation of anti-CGRP mAb (fremanezumab) treatment according to the Summary of Product Characteristics (SmPC) during clinical routine as a treatment of their physician (no study-specific intervention). This means that patients have to fulfil criteria for treatment with anti-CGRP mAbs in Switzerland, i.e. they have at least 8 days of migraine per month in the last three months.

Interventions

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Fremanezumab

Initiation of anti-CGRP mAb (fremanezumab) treatment according to the Summary of Product Characteristics (SmPC) during clinical routine as a treatment of their physician (no study-specific intervention). This means that patients have to fulfil criteria for treatment with anti-CGRP mAbs in Switzerland, i.e. they have at least 8 days of migraine per month in the last three months.

Intervention Type DRUG

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Premenopausal women of 18 years of age or older.
* Women with a regular cycle 21-32 days.
* The patient has a diagnosis of chronic or episodic migraine.
* Women suffering from migraine with or without aura according to International Headache Society (IHS) Classification (ICHD-3 code A1.1.2 or A1.2.0.2) for at least one year.
* The patient has been maintaining a daily headache diary as part of her routine disease management per her treating physician and has 3 months headache diary data prior to baseline/ treatment initiation. Notes: The patient's headache diary captures information on each headache day, headache duration, headache severity, medication intake, each day of menstrual bleeding, pain intensity of symptoms associated with the menstrual bleeding and symptoms of endometriosis (if present): dysmenorrhoea, dyschezia, dyspareunia, dysuria.
* The patient understands and is willing to keep records in their headache diary for the course of the study.
* Initiation of anti-CGRP mAb (fremanezumab) treatment according to the Summary of Product Characteristics (SmPC) during clinical routine as a treatment of their physician (no study-specific intervention). This means that patients have to fulfil criteria for treatment with anti-CGRP mAbs in Switzerland, i.e. they have at least 8 days of migraine per month in the last three months.
* The patient has signed the informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria

* Patients with pure menstrual migraine.
* The patient is treated with another anti-CGRP mAb.
* The patient is not treated with fremanezumab according to the SmPC.
* The patient is being treated with another anti-CGRP-based preventive migraine medication within 6 months of enrolment.
* The patient is participating in an interventional clinical trial in EM or CM.
* Change of hormone therapy during study treatment.
* Progestin-only contraception.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Christoph J Schankin, Prof

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Inselspital, Department of Neurology, Bern

Locations

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Department of Neurology, Inselspital

Bern, , Switzerland

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Switzerland

Central Contacts

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Christoph J Schankin, Prof

Role: CONTACT

00416322111

Facility Contacts

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Christoph J Schankin, Prof

Role: primary

00416322111

References

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Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Celentano DD, Linet MS, Stewart WF. Gender differences in the experience of headache. Soc Sci Med. 1990;30(12):1289-95. doi: 10.1016/0277-9536(90)90309-g.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 2367875 (View on PubMed)

MacGregor EA, Hackshaw A. Prevalence of migraine on each day of the natural menstrual cycle. Neurology. 2004 Jul 27;63(2):351-3. doi: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000133134.68143.2e.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Chalmer MA, Kogelman LJA, Ullum H, Sorensen E, Didriksen M, Mikkelsen S, Dinh KM, Brodersen T, Nielsen KR, Bruun MT, Banasik K, Brunak S, Erikstrup C, Pedersen OB, Ostrowski SR, Olesen J, Hansen TF. Population-Based Characterization of Menstrual Migraine and Proposed Diagnostic Criteria. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 May 1;6(5):e2313235. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.13235.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Calhoun A, Ford S. Elimination of menstrual-related migraine beneficially impacts chronification and medication overuse. Headache. 2008 Sep;48(8):1186-93. doi: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2008.01176.x.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Ornello R, Frattale I, Caponnetto V, De Matteis E, Pistoia F, Sacco S. Menstrual Headache in Women with Chronic Migraine Treated with Erenumab: An Observational Case Series. Brain Sci. 2021 Mar 13;11(3):370. doi: 10.3390/brainsci11030370.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 33805838 (View on PubMed)

Verhagen IE, de Vries Lentsch S, van der Arend BWH, le Cessie S, MaassenVanDenBrink A, Terwindt GM. Both perimenstrual and nonperimenstrual migraine days respond to anti-calcitonin gene-related peptide (receptor) antibodies. Eur J Neurol. 2023 Jul;30(7):2117-2121. doi: 10.1111/ene.15794. Epub 2023 Apr 6.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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van Casteren DS, Verhagen IE, van der Arend BWH, van Zwet EW, MaassenVanDenBrink A, Terwindt GM. Comparing Perimenstrual and Nonperimenstrual Migraine Attacks Using an e-Diary. Neurology. 2021 Oct 26;97(17):e1661-e1671. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000012723. Epub 2021 Sep 7.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Pavlovic JM, Paemeleire K, Gobel H, Bonner J, Rapoport A, Kagan R, Zhang F, Picard H, Mikol DD. Efficacy and safety of erenumab in women with a history of menstrual migraine. J Headache Pain. 2020 Aug 3;21(1):95. doi: 10.1186/s10194-020-01167-6.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 32746775 (View on PubMed)

Silvestro M, Orologio I, Bonavita S, Scotto di Clemente F, Fasano C, Tessitore A, Tedeschi G, Russo A. Effectiveness and Safety of CGRP-mAbs in Menstrual-Related Migraine: A Real-World Experience. Pain Ther. 2021 Dec;10(2):1203-1214. doi: 10.1007/s40122-021-00273-w. Epub 2021 Jun 9.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 34106431 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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2024-00388

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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