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Register: ISRCTN
Last refreshed on: 13 January 2015
Main ID:  ISRCTN73338924
Date of registration: 20/07/2006
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Strama (Sweden)
Public title: Treatment with ciprofloxacin for one or two weeks in women with acute pyelonephritis.
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Date of first enrolment: 23/02/2006
Target sample size: 260
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://isrctn.com/ISRCTN73338924
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  A randomised, double blind, placebo-controlled multi centre study with parallel groups. (Treatment)  
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Countries of recruitment
Sweden
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Name: Torsten    Sandberg
Address:  Department of Infectious Diseases Sahlgrenska University Hospital S-416 85 Göteborg Sweden
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Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Women 18 years of age or older with suspected acute pyelonephritis
2. Fever of 38 degrees Celsius or more
3. Flank pain and/or costo-vertebral angle tenderness and/or voiding difficulties
4. Signed informed consent

Exclusion criteria: 1. Pregnancy
2. Breast-feeding
3. Women of a fertile age who are not using adequate contraceptives
4. Known hypersensitivity to fluoroquinolones
5. Antibiotic treatment within the last 72 hours
6. Patient with permanent indwelling urinary catheter or intermittent catheterization of the urinary bladder
7. Patient previously included in this study
8. Patient with known renal insufficiency (creatinine clearance <30 ml/min)
9. Patient with epilepsy
10. Patient treated with antacids, sucralfate, zinc or theophylline
11. Other reason according to the investigator´s discretion


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Gender: Female
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Acute pyelonephritis in women
Urological and Genital Diseases
Acute pyelonephritis in women
Intervention(s)
All patients are treated with ciprofloxacin 500 mg twice daily orally for seven days. Half of the study group will continue treatment with ciprofloxacin 500 mg twice daily for another seven days while the other half will be treated with placebo during the same period.

Added as of 24/10/2008: The anticipated end date of recruitment is 31/12/2008. The last follow-up visit will be approximately two months (42-63 days) after inclusion of the participant into the trial.
Primary Outcome(s)
Clinical and bacteriological efficacy of seven and 14 days treatment with ciprofloxacin 500 mg twice daily in women with acute pyelonephritis. Outcome will be measured ten to 14 days after ciprofloxacin treatment has been discontinued.
Secondary Outcome(s)
The accumulated clinical and bacteriological efficacy will be assessed five to seven weeks after ciprofloxacin treatment is discontinued.
Secondary ID(s)
2005-004992-39
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Strama (Sweden), Swedish Strategic Programme for the Rational Use of Antimicrobial Agents
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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