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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 24 August 2015
Main ID:  NCT02522169
Date of registration: 03/05/2015
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: Klinikum Westbrandenburg GmbH
Public title: TOPIT; Trough Level Optimized Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Therapy: A Multicenter Study Comparing Effectiveness of Trough Level Optimized Infliximab Maintenance Therapy With Standard Dosing Regimen of Pediatric Patients With Crohn's Disease TOPIT
Scientific title: Verbessertes Therapiemanagement für pädiatrische CED-Patienten Mit Chronisch-entzündlicher Darmerkrankung: Eine Randomisierte Multizentrische Studie, Welche Die Effektivität Einer Talspiegel-gesteuerten Infliximab-Erhaltungsphase Mit Dem herkömmlichen Dosierungsregime Vergleicht Trough Level Optimized Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Therapy: A Randomized Multicenter Study Comparing Effectiveness of Trough Level Optimized Infliximab Maintenance Therapy With Standard Dosing Regimen of Pediatric Patients With Crohn's Disease
Date of first enrolment: September 2015
Target sample size: 120
Recruitment status: Not yet recruiting
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02522169
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Subject), Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Contacts
Name:     Matthias Augustin Gonçalves
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Affiliation:  Klinikum Westbrandenburg
Name:     Michael Radke, Prof. Dr. med.
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Telephone: +49 331 241
Email: mardke@klinikumwb.de
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Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Pediatric patients of both sexes with Cohn's disease

- Assured diagnosis of Cohn's disease according to the Porto criteria

- Regular attendance of gastroenteric consultations at one of the study centers

- Minimum patients age of 6 years, maximum age of 16 years

- Infliximab therapy with permitted / without co- medication

- Completed induction with Infliximab in accordance to the approved conventional
scheme with primary therapy response

- Written consent of the patient and the legal guardian

Exclusion Criteria:

- No consent of the patient and / or legal guardian

- Serious side effects under Infliximab therapy in the past

- Primary non-responder to Infliximab after first three cycles



Age minimum: 6 Years
Age maximum: 17 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Pediatric Crohns Disease
Intervention(s)
Drug: Infliximab
Primary Outcome(s)
disease remission [Time Frame: 12 months]
Secondary Outcome(s)
The number of patients with a reset of therapy due to secondary loss of response, e.g. to a differend biological therapy, is the focus of ths secondary outcome [Time Frame: 12 months]
Secondary endpoint is the rate of adverse reactions [Time Frame: 12 months]
Costs of treatment [Time Frame: 12 months]
Secondary ID(s)
2014-000076-25
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
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