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Last refreshed on: 25 July 2023
Main ID:  NCT03720990
Date of registration: 24/10/2018
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: University of Nebraska
Public title: Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome and Cholic Acid
Scientific title: Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome: A Pilot Study of Cholic Acid Supplementation
Date of first enrolment: March 27, 2021
Target sample size: 12
Recruitment status: Active, not recruiting
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03720990
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: N/A. Intervention model: Single Group Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: None (Open Label).  
Phase:  Phase 1/Phase 2
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:     William B Rizzo, MD
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Affiliation:  University of Nebraska
Name:     Ellen R Elias, MD
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Affiliation:  University of Colorado - Colorado Children's Hospital
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Ages 2-25 years.

- Participants (or their parents/legally-authorized representative) must provide signed
informed consent.

- Assent must be obtained from those participants ages 7-17 years who are intellectually
capable of understanding this study.

- Diagnosis of SLOS based on clinical features and biochemical + genetic confirmation.

- Participants are capable of traveling to the STAIR study site.

- Fasting serum cholesterol =125 mg/dL on at least 2 specimens, each obtained at least 2
weeks apart during the Qualification Phase must be established before starting cholic
acid therapy.

- Clinically stable at the time of enrollment

- Participants must be on a constant dietary cholesterol intake for at least 3-months
prior to treatment with cholic acid.

- Participants must agree to make no changes in cholesterol supplementation during the
STAIR study.

- SLOS participants who are taking antioxidants will be included. Participants must
agree to make no changes in the antioxidant dose during this study.

- For females of childbearing age (who have begun menstruating), a negative pregnancy
test must be documented at the start of the study (week 0/ baseline) and at the end of
cholic acid administration (week 8).

Exclusion Criteria:

- Participants are unable to provide signed informed consent and/or verbal assent.

- Participants have an unstable clinical condition that would prevent completion of the
study. Medically unstable participants would include those with severe liver disease,
complex birth defects such as severe heart disease or renal dysplasia, those with
severe respiratory compromise requiring tracheostomy, or those who are not likely to
survive longer than 1 year.

- Participants are taking drugs, nutraceuticals, probiotics or other compounds that are
known or suspected to affect sterol metabolism.

- Participants have transaminase elevations (>3-fold above the reference range) at
baseline.



Age minimum: 2 Years
Age maximum: 25 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome
Intervention(s)
Drug: Cholic Acid
Primary Outcome(s)
Change in Serum Cholesterol and Cholesterol Metabolites [Time Frame: From enrollment to end of 8 weeks on cholic acid treatment]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
0464-18-FB
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
University of Pittsburgh
Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
University of Colorado, Denver
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
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