Luca Richeldi, Roland M du Bois, Ganesh Raghu, Arata Azuma, Kevin K Brown, Ulrich Costabel, Vincent Cottin, Kevin R Flaherty, David M Hansell, Yoshikazu Inoue, Dong Soon Kim, Martin Kolb, Andrew G Nicholson, Paul W Noble, Moisés Selman, Hiroyuki Taniguchi, Michèle Brun, Florence Le Maulf, Mannaïg Girard, Susanne Stowasser, Rozsa Schlenker-Herceg, Bernd Disse, Harold R Collard
BACKGROUND: Nintedanib (formerly known as BIBF 1120) is an intracellular inhibitor that targets multiple tyrosine kinases. A phase 2 trial suggested that treatment with 150 mg of nintedanib twice daily reduced lung-function decline and acute exacerbations in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. METHODS: We conducted two replicate 52-week, randomized, double-blind, phase 3 trials (INPULSIS-1 and INPULSIS-2) to evaluate the efficacy and safety of 150 mg of nintedanib twice daily as compared with placebo in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis...
May 29, 2014: New England Journal of Medicine