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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 19 February 2015
Main ID:  NCT00365521
Date of registration: 15/08/2006
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: Bispebjerg Hospital
Public title: Prophylactic Photodynamic Therapy to Organ Transplant Patients
Scientific title:
Date of first enrolment: April 2009
Target sample size: 50
Recruitment status: Not yet recruiting
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00365521
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Single Blind  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Denmark
Contacts
Name:     Merete Hædersdal, MD, PhD, DrMedSci
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Telephone:
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Affiliation:  Bispebjerg Hospital
Name:     Merete Hædersdal
Address: 
Telephone: +45 35 31 60 02
Email: mhaedersdal@dadlnet.dk
Affiliation: 
Name:     Merete Hædersdal, MD, PhD, DrMedSci
Address: 
Telephone: +45 35316002
Email: mhaedersdal@dadlnet.dk
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Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Organ transplant recipients.

- Age 40 years or older.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patients younger than 40 years and older than 70 years.

- Clinical signs of skin cancer, actinic keratoses or warts at the time of inclusion.

- Previous photodynamic therapy to the skin areas investigated.

- Pregnancy or breast feeding patients.

- Patients with porphyria.

- Patients with a tendency to produce hypertrophic scars or keloids.

- Patients with known allergy to Metvix.

- Patients who are not considered able to follow the treatment protocol (e.g. severely
alcoholic patients, dementia patients, mentally ill patients etc.).



Age minimum: 40 Years
Age maximum: 70 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Organ Transplants
Intervention(s)
Procedure: Photodynamic Therapy
Primary Outcome(s)
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
KF-01-314759
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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