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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 11 July 2016
Main ID:  NCT02482194
Date of registration: 18/06/2015
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Armed Forces Bone Marrow Transplant Center, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Public title: Autologous Mesenchymal Stem Cells Transplantation for Spinal Cord Injury- A Phase I Clinical Study
Scientific title: Autologous Transplantation of Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Patients of Spinal Cord Injury-Phase I Clinical Trial
Date of first enrolment: June 2013
Target sample size: 9
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02482194
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Endpoint Classification: Safety Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Phase:  Phase 1
Countries of recruitment
Pakistan
Contacts
Name:     Parvez Ahmed
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Affiliation:  Commandant Armed Forces Bone Marrow Transplant Center
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Patients suffering from sub-acute and chronic phase of spinal cord injury

- Traumatic spinal cord injury at the thoracic level

- American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) impairment scale "A"

- Confirmation by MRI of injury level

- Time between injury and enrollment greater than 2 weeks

- Ability to provide informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

- Axonic brain injury

- Inability to provide consent

- Open injuries

- Active infectious diseases

- Terminal patients

- Neurodegenerative diseases

- Evidence of meningitis

- Cerebral palsy

- Primary haematologic diseases

- Coagulopathies

- Pregnancy

- Other medical complications that contra-indicate surgery, including major respiratory
complications

- Use of metal implants close to vascular structures (such as cardiac pacemaker or
prosthesis) that contraindicate MRI.



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 50 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Spinal Cord Injury
Intervention(s)
Biological: mesenchymal stem cells
Primary Outcome(s)
Number of adverse events [Time Frame: 1 month]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Functional Independence [Time Frame: 1 year]
Sensory and motor strength [Time Frame: 1 year]
Muscle strength assessment [Time Frame: 1 year]
Secondary ID(s)
AFBMTC-SCI-2013
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine
Ethics review
Results
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