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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT01386034
Date of registration: 24/06/2011
Primary sponsor: Nantes University Hospital
Public title: Effects of Oral Citrulline on Protein Metabolism in Patients With Intestinal Failure (Citrugrêle 2) CITRUGRELE 2
Scientific title: Effects of Oral Citrulline on Protein Metabolism in Patients With Intestinal Failure : a Prospective, Randomized, Double-blind, Cross-over Study
Date of first enrolment: June 2012
Target sample size: 12
Recruitment status: Not yet recruiting
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01386034
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator), Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
France
Contacts
Name:   Dominique DARMAUN, Pr
Address: 
Telephone: +33 2 40 08 42 75
Email: dominique.darmaun@chu-nantes.fr
Affiliation: 
Name:   Dominique DARMAUN, Pr
Address: 
Telephone:
Email:
Affiliation:  Nantes University Hospital
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Adult between 18 and 75 years

- Patient with short bowel syndrome

- Patient with an incompetent small intestine after intestinal resection

- Patient fed orally and beyond more than 6 weeks after surgery

- Absence of any earlier supplementation with citrulline, glutamine, ornithine
a-ketoglutarate, or stimol®

- No current artificial feeding (parenteral)

- No low-sodium diet- No renal, cardiac, respiratory or hepatic insufficiency

- No chronic inflammatory disease (intestinal or other)

- No current corticosteroid treatment

- Fasting blood glucose below 6mmol/L

- Patient able to understand benefits and risks of protocol

- Women who are of childbearing potential must have a negative serum pregnancy test and
agree to use a medically acceptable method of contraception throughout the study and
for 15 days following the end of the study

- Signed informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

- Subject not fulfilling inclusion criteria

- Subject mentioned in articles L1121-5 to L1121-8 of "code de la santé publique"

- Pregnancy



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 75 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Intestinal Failure
Intervention(s)
Drug: Citrulline and placebo
Primary Outcome(s)
whole body protein synthesis [Time Frame: No]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Measure of insulin [Time Frame: No]
Measure of insulin-like-growth factor 1 (IGF-1) [Time Frame: No]
nitrogen balance [Time Frame: No]
Secondary ID(s)
09/5-W
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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