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PRIALT: A Different Type of Neuropathic Pain Therapy, A Different Kind of Safety Profile

  • No reports of granuloma formation associated with PRIALT *
  • Does not invoke the debilitating adverse events associated with opioid therapy
  • PRIALT does not interact with opiate receptors and does not cause opiate-induced respiratory depression  

A Proven safety profile: PRIALT has been evaluated in more than 1,200 patients, over 662 patient years.

  • PRIALT has been administered as a continuous IT infusion in 1,254 patients over three double-blind, placebo controlled, multi-center studies and four open-label, long-term studies
  • Duration of treatment lasted more than 7.5 years (mean duration: 193 days)
  • Most commonly reported adverse events ( 25%) in the clinical trials were dizziness, nausea, confusional state, and nystagmus
  • Serious adverse events and discontinuations for adverse events were less frequent when PRIALT was titrated slowly   


Incidence of Treatment-Emergent Adverse Events in Placebo-Controlled Study that Occurred in 5% of patients and were more common with PRIALT than with placebo

 

*Deer et. al. Polyanalgesic Consensus Panel 2007: Recommendations for the management of pain by intrathecal (intraspinal) drug delivery: report of an interdisciplinary expert panel. Neuromodulation. 2007; 10:300-328.