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Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT00684346
Date of registration: 08/05/2008
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: The Hospital for Sick Children
Public title: 18FDG-PET Imaging to Detect Changes in Airways Inflammation in Cystic Fibrosis Patients
Scientific title: A Pilot Study of 18FDG-PET Imaging to Detect Changes in Airways Inflammation in Cystic Fibrosis Patients After Treatment for a Pulmonary Exacerbation
Date of first enrolment: April 2008
Target sample size: 20
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00684346
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: N/A. Intervention model: Single Group Assignment. Primary purpose: Diagnostic. Masking: None (Open Label).  
Phase:  Phase 3
Countries of recruitment
Canada
Contacts
Name:     Felix Ratjen, MD
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Affiliation:  The Hospital for Sick Children
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Diagnosis of CF as defined by two or more clinical features of CF and a documented
sweat chloride > 60mEq/L by quantitative pilocarpine iontophoresis test or a genotype
showing two well characterized disease causing mutations

- Informed consent and verbal assent (as appropriate) provided by the subject's parent
or legal guardian and the subject

- Ages 6-18 and able to perform reproducible spirometry

- Admission to the Hospital for Sick Children for a pulmonary exacerbation

Exclusion Criteria:

- Inability to perform reproducible spirometry

- Diagnosis of Cystic Fibrosis Related Diabetes (CFRD)

- Medical instability that would preclude the ability to perform PET imaging

- FEV1% predicted < 40%

- The use of supplementary oxygen

- Pregnancy or breastfeeding

- Severe claustrophobia



Age minimum: 6 Years
Age maximum: 18 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Cystic Fibrosis
Intervention(s)
Other: 18-FDG
Primary Outcome(s)
Change in airways inflammation detected by 18FDG -PET from baseline [Time Frame: Measured at end of treatment (day 14)]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Correlation of pre and post 18FDG-PET data with lung function (FEV1, FEF 25-75 and FVC), sputum neutrophil count and sputum free elastase [Time Frame: Measured at end of treatment (day 14)]
Secondary ID(s)
1000011762
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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