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Register: JPRN
Last refreshed on: 17 October 2023
Main ID:  JPRN-UMIN000002796
Date of registration: 25/11/2009
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kyoto University
Public title: Effect of tacrolimus for patients with refractory Crohn's disease: A randomized, placebo-controlled trial.
Scientific title: Effect of tacrolimus for patients with refractory Crohn's disease: A randomized, placebo-controlled trial. - Clinical trial of tacrolimus for patients with Crohn's disease
Date of first enrolment: 2009/11/01
Target sample size: 50
Recruitment status: Recruiting
URL:  https://center6.umin.ac.jp/cgi-open-bin/ctr_e/ctr_view.cgi?recptno=R000002658
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Parallel Randomized  
Phase:  Phase II
Countries of recruitment
Japan
Contacts
Name:     Hiroshi Nakase
Address:  54 Kawahara-cho, Shogoin, Sakyoku, Kyoto Japan
Telephone: 075-751-4319
Email: hiropy_n@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Affiliation:  Kyoto University Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Name:     Chiba Tsutomu
Address:  54 Kawahara-cho, Shogoin, Sakyoku, Kyoto Japan
Telephone: 075-751-4319
Email: chiba@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Affiliation:  Kyoto University Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria:
Exclusion criteria: (1)patients with severe active disease-massive bleeding case, perforating case(2)patients with severe cardiac disease, liver disease, respiratory disease (3)patients with renal disease and hyperkalemia (4)patients with malignant disease, history of malignancy (5)patients with severe infection (6)patient having pregnancy or having the possiblity of pregnancy

Age minimum: 16years-old
Age maximum: 65years-old
Gender: Male and Female
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Crohn's disease
Intervention(s)
We randomly assigned patients into either placebo or tacrolimus group at a ratio of 1:1 by use of stratified block randomization. Patients assigned to tacrolimus received for four weeks. For induction of remission, the dose of tacrolimus is increased with aiming at high trough level (10~15ng/ml).
placebo control
Primary Outcome(s)
Crohn's disease activity index at 0.4.8 weeks after treatment
Secondary Outcome(s)
(1)change of CRP (2)percentage of patients achieved remission after treatment (3)safty (4)percentage of pateints with decreasing more than 100 points of CDAI after treatment
Secondary ID(s)
Source(s) of Monetary Support
the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare, Japan
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Status: YES
Approval date:
Contact:
Results
Results available: Yes
Date Posted:
Date Completed: 31/12/2015
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