108
Participants
Start Date
March 7, 2017
Primary Completion Date
August 8, 2019
Study Completion Date
August 8, 2019
Mepolizumab 300 mg
Mepolizumab is available as lyophilized powder for injection reconstituted with Sterile Water for Injection, just prior to use.
Placebo matching mepolizumab
Placebo is available as 0.9% sodium chloride solution
Active OCS capsules (5 mg prednisolone or prednisone)
All subjects will be provided with 2 bottles of blinded OCS capsules, one containing 5mg OCS capsules (active OCS treatment) and a second one containing matching placebo capsules (placebo OCS treatment). These will be dispensed to each subject at each scheduled clinic visit and as needed. Subjects with an increase in blood eosinophils above the pre-specified threshold will be instructed to start blinded OCS treatment from one of the bottles provided (active treatment) unless the subject's HES therapy has already been increased due to a symptom flare within the past 2 weeks.
Placebo matching OCS capsules
All subjects will be provided with 2 bottles of blinded OCS capsules, one containing 5mg OCS capsules (active OCS treatment) and a second one containing matching placebo capsules (placebo OCS treatment). These will be dispensed to each subject at each scheduled clinic visit and as needed.A subject who does not reach the pre-specified blood eosinophil threshold with a similar blood draw date will be selected to initiate a placebo OCS treatment in a blinded manner, unless the subject's HES therapy has already been increased due to a symptom flare within the past 2 weeks.
GSK Investigational Site, Brussels
GSK Investigational Site, Leuven
GSK Investigational Site, Mar del Plata
GSK Investigational Site, Charleston
GSK Investigational Site, Hanover
GSK Investigational Site, Toulouse
GSK Investigational Site, Fulda
GSK Investigational Site, Nantes
GSK Investigational Site, Guadalajara
GSK Investigational Site, Mayfield Heights
GSK Investigational Site, Cincinnati
GSK Investigational Site, Valencia
GSK Investigational Site, Florence
GSK Investigational Site, Rochester
GSK Investigational Site, Lille
GSK Investigational Site, Monterrey
GSK Investigational Site, Mannheim
GSK Investigational Site, Kirchheim -Teck
GSK Investigational Site, Napoli
GSK Investigational Site, Munich
GSK Investigational Site, Salt Lake City
GSK Investigational Site, Villahermosa
GSK Investigational Site, Suresnes
GSK Investigational Site, Moscow
GSK Investigational Site, Saint Petersburg
GSK Investigational Site, Saint Petersburg
GSK Investigational Site, Cluj-Napoca
GSK Investigational Site, Târgu Mureş
GSK Investigational Site, Porto Alegre
GSK Investigational Site, San Diego
GSK Investigational Site, New Haven
GSK Investigational Site, Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires
GSK Investigational Site, La Plata
GSK Investigational Site, Buenos Aires
GSK Investigational Site, Blumenau
GSK Investigational Site, Santo André - SP
GSK Investigational Site, Sorocaba
GSK Investigational Site, Krakow
GSK Investigational Site, Lodz
GSK Investigational Site, Bucharest
GSK Investigational Site, Barcelona
GSK Investigational Site, Barcelona
GSK Investigational Site, Leicester
Lead Sponsor
GlaxoSmithKline
INDUSTRY