An Expanded Access Trial in Japan to Provide Spesolimab to People With a Flare-up in Generalized Pustular Psoriasis Who Have no Other Treatment Options

Multi-centre, Open-label, Expanded Access Trial of Spesolimab i.v. in Patients With Generalized Pustular Psoriasis (GPP) Presenting With a Flare

This Expanded Access trial in Japan is open to people with a serious skin disease called Generalized Pustular Psoriasis (GPP). This program provides a medicine called spesolimab to people with a GPP flare-up who have no alternative treatment options.

Participants get a single infusion of spesolimab into a vein. They can get another spesolimab infusion one week after the first infusion if the doctors think it is helpful.

Participants are in the program for about 4 months and visit the study site about 5 to 6 times. The doctors regularly check participants' health and take note of any unwanted effects.

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of GPP confirmed based on the Japanese Dermatological Association (JDA) guidelines for the management and treatment of GPP.
• Patient is experiencing a flare, defined as new or worsening of widespread eruption of sterile macroscopically visible pustules, with or without systemic inflammation, as assessed by the investigator.
• Male or female patients, aged 18 to 75 years at time of enrollment. Women of childbearing potential (WOCBP) must be willing and able to use a highly effective method of birth control per International Council for Harmonization (ICH) M3 (R2) that result in a low failure rate of less than 1% per year when used consistently and correctly. A list of contraception methods meeting these criteria is provided in the patient information.
• Signed and dated written informed consent in accordance with International Council for Harmonization-Good Clinical Practice (ICH-GCP) and local legislation prior to admission to the trial.
• No satisfactory authorised alternative therapy exists, as assessed by the investigator.

Exclusion criteria

• Women who are pregnant, nursing, or who plan to become pregnant while in the trial.

  -- Women who stop nursing before study drug administration do not need to be excluded from participating; they should refrain from breastfeeding for 16 weeks after the last spesolimab infusion.

• Severe, progressive, or uncontrolled hepatic disease, defined as >3-fold Upper Level of Normal (ULN) elevation in Aspartate Transaminase (AST) or Alanine Aminotransferase (ALT) or alkaline phosphatase, or >2-fold ULN elevation in total bilirubin.

• Active systemic infections (fungal and bacterial disease) during the last 2 weeks prior to drug administration, as assessed by the investigator.

• Increased risk of infectious complications (e.g. recent pyogenic infection, any congenital or acquired immunodeficiency (e.g. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)), past organ or stem cell transplantation), as assessed by the investigator.

• Relevant chronic or acute infections, including active tuberculosis (TB), HIV infection or viral hepatitis at the time of drug administration.

  • Patients should be evaluated for TB infection prior to initiating treatment with spesolimab.
  • Anti-TB therapy should be considered, in accordance with local guidelines, prior to initiating spesolimab in patients with latent TB or a history of TB.

• History of allergy / hypersensitivity to systemically administered spesolimab or its excipients.

• Any documented active or suspected malignancy or history of malignancy within 5 years prior to screening, except appropriately treated basal or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin or in situ carcinoma of uterine cervix.

• Immediate life-threatening flare of GPP requiring intensive care treatment according to the investigator's judgement. Life-threatening complications include cardiovascular / cytokine driven shock, pulmonary distress syndrome, or renal failure.

Further exclusion criteria apply.