A Study to Test Whether Two Different Doses of Avenciguat Help People With Liver Cirrhosis and High Blood Pressure in the Portal Vein (Main Vessel Going to the Liver)
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Official title
Randomised, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled and Parallel Group Trial to Investigate the Effects of Two Doses (Up-titration to a Fixed Dose Regimen) of Oral BI 685509 on Portal Hypertension After 24 Weeks Treatment in Patients With Clinically Significant Portal Hypertension (CSPH) in Compensated Cirrhosis
Brief summary
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This study is open to adults with liver cirrhosis and high blood pressure in the portal vein (main vessel going to the liver). The purpose of this study is to find out whether a medicine called Avenciguat helps people with this condition. Participants are put into 3 groups randomly, which means by chance. Participants in 2 groups take different doses of Avenciguat as tablets twice a day. Participants in the placebo group take placebo as tablets twice a day. Placebo tablets look like Avenciguat tablets but do not contain any medicine. Participants are in the study for about 8 months. During this time, they visit the study site about 14 times. At 3 of the visits, the doctors check the pressure in a liver vein. This is done with a catheter (a long thin tube) and gives information about the pressure in the portal vein. The change in blood pressure is then compared between the groups to see whether the treatment works. The doctors also regularly check participants' health and take note of any unwanted effects.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT05161481
- Recruitment status
- Terminated
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Enrollment
- 80 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 75 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Apr 26, 2022
- Primary completion
- May 1, 2024
- Completion
- Jun 11, 2024
- Last update posted
- Sep 2, 2025
2022 – 2024
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 6
- U.S. states
- 5
- U.S. cities
- 6
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| California Liver Research Institute | Pasadena | California | 91105 | — |
| Inland Empire Clinical Trials, LLC | Rialto | California | 92377 | — |
| Floridian Clinical Research-Miami Lakes-68368 | Miami Lakes | Florida | 33016 | — |
| Northwell Health Center for Liver Disease | Manhasset | New York | 11030 | — |
| Medical University of South Carolina | Charleston | South Carolina | 29425 | — |
| American Research Corporation at the Texas Liver Institute | San Antonio | Texas | 78215 | — |
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Non-U.S. locations
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- Last update posted Sep 2, 2025 · Synced Sep 11, 2026
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