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Last refreshed on: 19 October 2017
Main ID:  NCT00908375
Date of registration: 21/05/2009
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Northwestern University
Public title: Efficacy of Pregabalin in Patients With Radicular Pain
Scientific title: Efficacy of Pregabalin in Patients With Radicular Pain
Date of first enrolment: May 2009
Target sample size: 39
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00908375
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:   
Phase:  Phase 4
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:     Khalid M Malik, MD
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Affiliation:  Northwestern University
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Patients with pain in dermatomal distribution, in either cervical or lumbar region.

2. History of pain for more than 3 months.

3. History of herniated disc, spinal stenosis or failed back surgery.

4. A series of epidural steroid injections within the past 6 months.

5. Presence of motor or sensory neurological signs (hypoesthesia, hyperesthesia,
allodynia, dysesthesia) in the affected dermatomes.

6. Patients must be cognitively capable of completing the pain questionnaires.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Patients below 18 or over 65 years of age.

2. Patients with mostly axial spinal pain.

3. Presence of significant motor deficits, and /or bowel and/or bladder dysfunction.

4. Workmen's compensation or disability issues.

5. Patients with chronic depression and on depression medications.

6. Addiction and/or substance abuse issues.

7. Patients using gabapentin or failure to respond to previous gabapentin use.

8. Patients with known peripheral neuropathy (e.g. DPN, PHN etc.).

9. Known hypersensitivity to pregabalin use (hives, blisters, rash, dypnea and wheezing).

10. History of angioedema with pregabalin use.

11. Patients with known renal insufficiency, diabetes, congestive heart failure, cardiac
conduction abnormalities, and/or thrombocytopenia.

12. Patients using ACE-inhibitors and thiazolidinedione antidiabetic agents (Avandia®,
Actos®).

13. Pregnant patients.



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 64 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Neuropathy; Radicular, Lumbar, Lumbosacral
Spinal Stenosis
Herniated Disc
Failed Back Surgery Syndrome
Intervention(s)
Drug: Pregabalin
Drug: Sugar Pill
Primary Outcome(s)
Pain Scores (NRS) at 3-weeks [Time Frame: 3 weeks]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Oswestry Disability Questionnaires [Time Frame: 3 weeks]
Patient's Global Impression of Change at 3 Weeks [Time Frame: 3 weeks]
Secondary ID(s)
FRA7057
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
Results available: Yes
Date Posted: 16/09/2014
Date Completed:
URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT00908375
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