Cefalium® Compared to Tylenol® in the Treatment of Migraine Attacks
Sponsored by Ache Laboratorios Farmaceuticos S.A.
About this trial
Last updated 6 years ago
Study ID
Status
Type
Phase
Placebo
Accepting
Not accepting
Trial Timing
Ended 4 years ago
What is this trial about?
What are the participation requirements?
Inclusion Criteria
- Subjects of both gender;
- Age older or equal to 18 and younger than 66 years if they have symptoms of migraine headache before 50 years of age;
- Presence of migraine headache with or without aura symptoms, at least 03 months prior to the study, the criteria defined by International Classification of Headache Disorders(ICHD)-II, 2004 (IHS International Headache Society) - Annex I;
- Subjects which are experiencing 2-6 migraine attacks per month with mild to moderate pain intensity in the last 3 months prior to screening visit;
- Participants which are able to distinguish migraine attacks to any other type of headache;
- Ability to understand and consent to participate in this clinical research, expressed by signing the Informed Consent Form (ICF).
Exclusion Criteria
- Any clinical finding (clinical evaluation / physical) that is interpreted by the Investigator as a risk to the subject in the clinical trial;
- Subjects which had recent episodes of headache, with frequency equal or higher than 15 daily episodes per month, 3 months prior to the screening visit;
- Subjects with headache history defined by the ICHD-II criteria, 2004 IHS (International Headache Society) rated as:
- Any laboratorial finding that the Investigator consider a risk to subject of the study;
- Hypersensitivity to the drug components used during the study;
- Women in pregnancy or nursing period;
- Women in reproductive age who do not agree to use contraception acceptable [oral contraceptives, injectable contraceptives, intrauterine device (IUD), hormonal implants, barrier methods, hormonal patch and tubal ligation]; other than surgically sterile (bilateral oophorectomy or hysterectomy), postmenopausal for at least one (01) years or sexual abstinence;
- Inability to understand and answer to the functional categorical scale of the study, diary of symptoms, and not having accompanying to assist him/her;
- History of abuse, according to the principal investigator, of the alcohol, opioids, barbiturates, benzodiazepines and illicit drugs in the last 02 years, or abuse of drugs for headache including ergotamines or narcotics in the last 03 months;
- Subjects with prolonged hypotension, shock, sepsis, pheochromocytoma, hemorrhage, mechanical obstruction or perforation of the gastrointestinal tract
- Participants with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase(G6PD) deficiency due to increased risk of hemolysis associated with the use of paracetamol;
- Subjects with history of epilepsy or presence of psychiatric illness of any kind, in the opinion of the investigator, that may interfere with adherence to treatment;
- Subjects with a malignant disease less than five years, or for more than five years, but without documentation about the remission/cure. As example: melanoma, leukemia, lymphoma, myeloproliferative diseases and renal cell carcinoma of any length should be excluded. Exceptions: Participants with basal cell skin cancers, squamous cell, and cervical cancer in situ may be eligible;
- Subjects which uses a preventive treatment and changed the dose in the last 02 weeks before the screening visit (V0);
- Subjects with hepatic or renal failure;
- Subjects that has participated in clinical trial protocols in the last twelve (12) months (National Board of Health- Resolution 251 of 07 August 1997, Part III, sub-item J), unless the investigator considers that there may be a direct benefit to it;
- Subjects who are in prohibited medication as described in item 10.2 of the Protocol.