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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT00169013
Date of registration: 09/09/2005
Primary sponsor: Danish Pain Research Center
Public title: Gabapentin in Phantom and Stump Pain
Scientific title: Gabapentin in the Prevention of Phantom Limb Pain
Date of first enrolment: May 2002
Target sample size:
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00169013
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double-Blind, Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
Denmark
Contacts
Name:   Lone Nikolajsen, MD, PhD
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Telephone:
Email:
Affiliation:  Danish Pain Research Center
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Amputation of crus or femur

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Patients who cannot cooperate

2. Fertile women without sufficient contraceptives

3. Allergy to gabapentin

4. Earlier amputation of the same limb except toes

5. Serious lever, kidney, cardiac, respiratory, haematological disease.-



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Amputation of Lower Limb
Intervention(s)
Drug: Gabapentin
Primary Outcome(s)
Average intensity of stump and phantom pain 30 days and 6 months after amputation
Number of patients with phantom and stump pain 30 days and 6 months after amputation
Primary outcome measures:
Secondary Outcome(s)
Brush evoked allodynia, wind up like pain to repetitive pinprick, pressure pain threshold at day 14 and 30.
Concurrent pain medication at day 7, 14 and 30, and 3 and 6 months
McGill Pain Questionnaire day 7, 14 and 30, and 3 and 6 months
Prevalence and severity of phantom and stump pain at controls day 7, 14 and 30, and 3 and 6 months
Secondary outcome measures:
Secondary ID(s)
Gabapentin2002
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Pfizer
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