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Last refreshed on: 19 February 2015
Main ID:  NCT00276952
Date of registration: 12/01/2006
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: University of Chile
Public title: Gonyautoxin in the Treatment of Chronic Tension-Type Headache
Scientific title: Phase 2 Study of Treatment of Chronic Tension-Type Headache Using Gonyautoxins
Date of first enrolment: September 2004
Target sample size: 27
Recruitment status: Terminated
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00276952
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Double-Blind, Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Phase:  Phase 2
Countries of recruitment
Chile
Contacts
Name:     Nestor Lagos, PhD
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Affiliation:  Faculty of Medicine University of Chile
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Chronic tensional-type headache patients according to the International Headache
Society criteria: patients with headache of a pressing or tightening quality with
episodic frequency above 15 days a month

- Refractory to conventional treatments such as, orally administered analgesics,
systemic muscular relaxant, corticoids and antidepressant like Amytriptiline

- Treated and controlled in the University Hospital Neurology Clinic over 2 years with
duration of symptoms over 3 years

Exclusion Criteria:

- Pregnancy

- Use of headache prophylactic treatment a month prior to infiltration

- Myasthenic syndromes

- Muscular dystrophies

- Inflammatory myopathies

- Acute and chronic polineuropathies

- Use of psychotropic substances 24-hour before infiltration

- Anticoagulant treatment

- terminal illnesses (AIDS, cancer)

- drugs or alcohol abuse



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 80 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Tension-Type Headache
Intervention(s)
Drug: Gonyautoxin
Primary Outcome(s)
a) Drop off in the patient acute headache pain (2 minutes, weekly for 20 weeks)
b) Number of days without headache pain following infiltration
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
HCUCH-NL-GTX-002
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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