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Register: JPRN
Last refreshed on: 17 October 2023
Main ID:  JPRN-UMIN000005358
Date of registration: 01/04/2011
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: Lower Gastroenterology, Hyogo College of Medicine
Public title: Rapid LeukocyAPheresis InDuction for Ulcerative Colitis
Scientific title: Rapid LeukocyAPheresis InDuction for Ulcerative Colitis - RAPID-UC
Date of first enrolment: 2011/04/01
Target sample size: 40
Recruitment status: Complete: follow-up complete
URL:  https://center6.umin.ac.jp/cgi-open-bin/ctr_e/ctr_view.cgi?recptno=R000006360
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Parallel Randomized  
Phase:  Phase II,III
Countries of recruitment
Japan
Contacts
Name:     Shiro Nakamura
Address:  1-1 Mukogawa, Nishinomiya, Hyogo Pref. Japan
Telephone: 0798-45-6660
Email: shiro@hyo-med.ac.jp
Affiliation:  Hyogo College of Medicine Lower GI disease
Name:     Ken Fukunaga
Address:  1-1 Mukogawa, Nishinomiya, Hyogo Pref. Japan
Telephone: 0798-45-6662
Email: kebe@hyo-med.ac.jp
Affiliation:  Hyogo College of Medicine Lower GI disease
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria:
Exclusion criteria: 1) Patients with proctitis 2) Patients with chronic persistent UC 3) Patients having consecutively received corticosteroids therapy of 5mg/day or more, for more than 3 months 4) Patients having consecutively received corticosteroids enema therapy for more than 3 months 5) Patients with either white blood cell count of less than 3,000/mm3, or hemoglobin level of less than 10g/dL, or platelet count of less than 100,000/mm3 6) Patients who are younger than 12 years old or who are older than 80 years old. 7) Patients determined to be inappropriate for this study by the investigators

Age minimum: 12years-old
Age maximum: 81years-old
Gender: Male and Female
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
ulcerative colitis
Intervention(s)
LCAP is determined to apply if patient does not obtain a significant improvement (higher than 50%) in spite of recieving sufficient steroid therapy (higher than 30mg/day of prednisolone) for 3 days.
LCAP is determined to apply if patient does not obtain a significant improvement (higher than 50%) in spite of recieving sufficient steroid therapy (higher than 30mg/day of prednisolone) for 14 days.
Primary Outcome(s)
The primary outcome is the improvement of Mayo score obtained after 6th LCAP. Mayo score is taken before (within 2 weeks of starting LCAP) and after 6th LCAP. Partial-Mayo score is taken at every visit and/or whenever the score has to be taken without endoscopic evaluation.
Secondary Outcome(s)
The secondary outcome is the Lichtiger's clinical activity index taken before (within 2 weeks of starting LCAP) and after 6th LCAP.
Secondary ID(s)
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Lower Gastroenterology, Hyogo College of Medicine
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Department of Gastroenterology, Osaka City University and Department of Gastroenterology, Osaka Medical College
Ethics review
Status: YES
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