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A Clinical Study of to Confirm the Doses of Selexipag in Children With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
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EU CTIS:
#2022-503042-42-00
Other:
#AC-065A203
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Inclusion Criteria:

* Signed and dated informed consent by the parent(s) or Legally authorized representative(s) AND assent from developmentally capable children

* Males or females between greater than or equal to (>=) 2 and less than (<) 18 years of age with weight >= 9 kilograms (kg)

* Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) diagnosis confirmed by documented historical right heart catheterization (RHC) performed at any time before participant's enrollment

* PAH with one of the following etiologies:

* idiopathic (iPAH),

* heritable (hPAH),

* associated with congenital heart disease (CHD): PAH with co-incidental CHD; post-operative PAH (persisting/ recurring/ developing >= 6 months after repair of CHD)

* Drug or toxin-induced

* PAH associated with HIV

* PAH associated with connective tissue disease

* Word Health Organization functional class (WHO FC) II to III

* Participants treated with an endothelin receptor antagonist (ERA) and/or a phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE-5) inhibitor provided that the treatment dose(s) has been stable for at least 3 months prior to enrollment, or participants who are not candidates for these therapies

* Females of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test at Screening and at Enrollment, and must agree to undertake monthly pregnancy tests, and to use a reliable method of contraception (if sexually active) from screening up to study drug discontinuation plus 30 days (EOS)

Key Exclusion Criteria:

* Participants with PAH due to portal hypertension, schistosomiasis, pulmonary veno-occlusive disease (PVOD) and/or pulmonary capillary hemangiomatosis

* Participants with PAH associated with Eisenmenger syndrome

* Participants with moderate to large left-to-right shunts

* Participants with cyanotic congenital cardiac lesions such as transposition of the great arteries, truncus arteriosus, univentricular heart or pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect, as well as Participants with Fontan-palliation

* Participants with pulmonary hypertension due to lung disease

* Previous treatment with Uptravi (selexipag) within 2 weeks prior to enrollment

* Participants having received prostacyclin (epoprostenol) or prostacyclin analogs (that is, treprostinil, iloprost, beraprost) within 2 months prior to enrollment or are scheduled to receive any of these compounds during the trial

* Treatment with another investigational drug within 4 weeks prior to enrollment

* History, or current suspicion of intussusception or ileus or gastrointestinal obstruction as per investigator's judgment

* Uncontrolled thyroid disease as per investigator judgment

* Hemoglobin or hematocrit < 75 percentage (%) of the lower limit of normal range

* Known severe or moderate hepatic impairment

* Clinical signs of hypotension that in the investigator's judgment would preclude initiation of a PAH-specific therapy

* Participants with severe renal insufficiency

* Known hypersensitivity to the investigational treatment or to any of the excipients of the drug formulations

Note: The criteria listed here are only a general guide. To join any trial, you must first have a medical check by a qualified doctor or healthcare professional. They will decide if the trial is a good fit and safe for your health.
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