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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 5 November 2012
Main ID:  NCT01400698
Date of registration: 21/07/2011
Primary sponsor: Merck KGaA
Public title: Saizen in Intra-uterine Growth Retardation
Scientific title: An Open Study of the Safety and Efficacy of Saizen®, (Recombinant Human Growth Hormone, r-hGH), in Children Born With Serious Intra-uterine Growth Retardation (IUGR) Treated to Final Height
Date of first enrolment: November 1998
Target sample size: 91
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01400698
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
Contacts
Name:   Medical Director
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Affiliation:  Merck Serono S.A., Geneva
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Previous inclusion, good compliance and normal completion of GF4001 or GF6283 in the
treatment of growth failure in children born with serious IUGR (3-year continuous
r-hGH treatment in GF4001 or 2-year continuous or intermittent r-hGH treatment in
GF6283).

- Increase in height greater than 0.5 standard deviation (SD) during the first 2 years
of r-hGH treatment in GF4001 or after 2 years of continuous or intermittent r-hGH
treatment in GF6283.

- A written Informed Consent at the beginning of the pre-study visit must be obtained
from the parent(s)/legal guardian(s), with the understanding that consent may be
withdrawn by the subject or parents at any time without prejudice to their future
medical care. Children able to understand the trial should personally sign and date
the written informed consent, too.

- Other protocol-defined inclusion criteria may apply.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Known multiple malformation syndrome with severe psychomotor retardation and/or body
hemihypertrophy.

- Severe psychomotor retardation.

- Severe congenital malformations.

- Other protocol-defined exclusion criteria may apply.



Age minimum: N/A
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Children Born With Serious Intra-uterine Growth Retardation
Intervention(s)
Drug: Saizen® A
Drug: Saizen® B
Other: Observation only
Primary Outcome(s)
Final Height [Time Frame: One year after final height was attained up to 10.6 years]
Height Standard Deviation Score (HSDS) [Time Frame: One year after final height was attained up to 10.6 years]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Parental Adjusted Height Standard Deviation Score (PAHSDS) [Time Frame: One year after final height was attained up to 10.6 years]
Secondary ID(s)
20184
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Merck Serono S.A., Geneva
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