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Product Approval
Information - Licensing Action
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Public Health Service
Food and Drug Administration
1401 Rockville Pike
Rockville, MD 20852-1448
June 18, 1996
Our Reference No. 96-0350
Dear Dr. MacFarlane:
Your request to supplement your product license application for Alteplase to include an indication for the management of acute ischemic stroke in adults, for improving neurological recovery, and reducing the incidence of disability has been approved.
We acknowledge your commitments to conduct phase 4 studies and to provide additional clinical information as detailed in your letter of June 14, 1996. These commitments are summarized as follows:
- To continue the ongoing study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Alteplase treatment in patients treated more than three hours after stroke onset.
- To conduct a prospectively designed uncontrolled clinical
study, in patients treated within three hours of stroke
onset, to identify patient characteristics that may be
associated with an increased risk from treatment.
- To provide the electronic dataset and additional safety
analyses from The European Cooperative Acute Ischemic Stroke
Study (ECASS).
It is requested that adverse experience reports be submitted in
accordance with the adverse experience reporting requirements for
licensed biological products (21 CFR 600.80) and that
distribution reports be submitted as described (21 CFR 600.81).
These requirements became effective on December 27, 1994. All
adverse experience reports should be prominently identified
according to 21 CFR 600.80 and be submitted to the Center for
Biologics Evaluation and Research, HFM-210, Food and Drug
Administration, 1401 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852-1448.
Please submit three copies of all final printed labeling at the
time of use and include part II of the label transmittal form
(FDA Form 2567) with completed implementation information. In
addition, please submit a label transmittal form with three copies of advertising and promotional labeling at the time of use to the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Advertising and Promotional Labeling Staff, HFM-202, 1401 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852-1448. You may also wish to submit these items in draft for comment. All promotional claims must be consistent with and not contrary to approved labeling. No comparative promotional claim or claim of superiority over other similar products should be made unless data to support such claims are submitted to and approved by the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.
This information will be included in your product licences application file.
Sincerely yours,
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Karen D. Weiss, M.D.
Director
Division of Clinical Trial Design and Analysis
Office of Therapeutics Research and Review
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
Last Updated: 1/17/2001
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