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Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT00403364
Date of registration: 22/11/2006
Primary sponsor: St. Orsola Hospital
Public title: Sequential Therapy Versus Triple Therapy for Helicobacter Pylori Eradication: a Placebo-Controlled Trial
Scientific title: Sequential Therapy Versus Triple Therapy for Helicobacter Pylori Eradication: a Placebo-Controlled Trial
Date of first enrolment: July 2003
Target sample size: 300
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00403364
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double-Blind, Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
Italy
Contacts
Name:   Dino Vaira, M.D.
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Affiliation:  S.Orsola/Malpighi Teaching Hospital, University of Bologna, Italy
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Helicobacter pylori infected patients > 18 years

Exclusion Criteria:

- previous H. pylori eradication treatment;

- Use of proton pump inhibitors, H2-receptor antagonists, bismuth preparations and
antibiotics in the previous 4 weeks;

- Concomitant anticoagulant or ketoconazole use, due to the potential of interaction
with the study medications;

- Zollinger-Ellison syndrome;

- Previous surgery of the esophagus and/or upper gastrointestinal tract (with the
exception of appendectomy, polypectomy and cholecystectomy);

- Severe or unstable cardiovascular, pulmonary, or endocrine disease; clinically
significant renal or hepatic disease or dysfunction; hematological disorder; any
other clinically significant medical condition that could increase the risk to the
study participants; malignant disease of any kind during the previous 5 years except
for successfully treated skin (basal or squamous cell) cancer or Barrett esophagus
with high grade dysplasia;

- Drug or medication abuse within the past year;

- Severe psychiatric or neurological disorders;

- Pregnant or nursing women sexually active women of child bearing potential who were
not willing to practice medically acceptable contraception (oral contraceptives;
inject able/implantable or mechanical devices as well as vasectomy of the sexual
partner) for the entire duration of the study.



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 70 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Helicobacter Pylori Infection
Intervention(s)
Drug: Placebo amoxicillin pantoprazole clarithromycin tinidazole
Primary Outcome(s)
13C urea breath test, upper endoscopy, histology, rapid urease test assessment
Secondary Outcome(s)
bacterial culture, and antibiotic resistance assessment
Secondary ID(s)
1112/2006
No grant received
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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