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Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT01828437
Date of registration: 07/04/2013
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Lady Hardinge Medical College
Public title: Addition of Pyridoxine to Prednisolone in Infantile Spasms
Scientific title: Addition of Pyridoxine to Prednisolone in the Treatment of Infantile Spasms: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Date of first enrolment: November 2012
Target sample size: 62
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01828437
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: None (Open Label).  
Phase:  Phase 3
Countries of recruitment
India
Contacts
Name:     Satinder Aneja, MD
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Affiliation:  Lady Hardinge Medical College
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Age in 3months-3years.

2. Presence of epileptic spasms (1 or more clusters per day) with EEG evidence of
hypsarrythmia or its variants.

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Exclusion Criteria:

1. Children with active systemic illness

2. Children with evidence of active tuberculosis

3. Severe Acute Malnutrition (standard deviation scores below median weight for height)

4. Children with recurrent illness/chronic systemic illness

5. Prior treatment of pyridoxine, steroid, or ACTH.

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Age minimum: 3 Months
Age maximum: 36 Months
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Infantile Spasms
Intervention(s)
Drug: Prednisolone
Drug: Pyridoxine plus prednisolone
Primary Outcome(s)
Proportion of children who achieved complete cessation spasm for at least 48 hours as per parental reports at the end of 2 weeks in both the groups. [Time Frame: 2 weeks]
Secondary Outcome(s)
• Proportion of children who achieved more than 50 % reduction of clinical spasms as per parental reports at the end of 2 weeks [Time Frame: 2 weeks]
Secondary ID(s)
PYRIPREDIS
Source(s) of Monetary Support
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Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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