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Last refreshed on: 30 October 2023
Main ID:  NCT03812302
Date of registration: 18/01/2019
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: University of Alberta
Public title: Use of Gallium-68 HA-DOTATATE PET/CT in Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA)
Scientific title: Evaluating the Use of Gallium-68 HA-DOTATATE Positron Emission Tomography/Computerized Tomography (PET/CT) in Patients With Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA.)
Date of first enrolment: September 9, 2019
Target sample size: 9
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03812302
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: N/A. Intervention model: Single Group Assignment. Primary purpose: Diagnostic. Masking: None (Open Label).  
Phase:  Phase 2
Countries of recruitment
Canada
Contacts
Name:     Alison Clifford
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Affiliation:  University of Alberta
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Participants must:

1. Meet the revised GCA diagnosis criteria (modified from ref 1)

2. Have either newly-diagnosed or relapsing disease

3. Have active disease (modified from ref 1, to remove ESR/CRP requirements)

4. Have been empirically started on glucocorticoid treatment (or had baseline
glucocorticoid dose increased, in the case of relapsers) = 2 weeks of enrolment

5. Participant must be have had (or will be willing to undergo) an urgent FDG-PET/CT as
part of routine clinical care.

GCA diagnosis criteria (modified from ref 1, to remove ESR requirement).

1. Age = 50 years

2. And at least 1 of a. or b. :

1. Unequivocal cranial symptoms of GCA (new headache, scalp or temporal artery
tenderness, ischemia-related vision loss, jaw/mouth claudication

2. Unequivocal symptoms of polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR), defined as shoulder and/or
hip girdle pain associated with inflammatory stiffness

3. And at least 1 of a. or b.:

1. Temporal artery biopsy revealing features of GCA

2. Evidence of large-vessel vasculitis by angiography or cross-sectional imaging
study such as magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), computed tomography
angiography (CTA), or positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT)

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patients not meeting the above criteria or who are unable to provide informed consent
will be excluded.



Age minimum: 50 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Giant Cell Arteritis
Intervention(s)
Diagnostic Test: 68-Ga HA-DOTATATE PET/CT
Primary Outcome(s)
Comparison of FDG vs DOTATATE vascular uptake in individual vascular territories using target-blood pool ratios (TBR) [Time Frame: time 0 (baseline)]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Qualitative comparison of FDG vs DOTATATE vascular uptake in individual vascular (scores 0-3) territories using visual uptake scores [Time Frame: time 0 (baseline)]
Changes in vascular DOTATATE uptake scores over time (quantitatively and qualitatively) [Time Frame: 6 months]
Correlation between vascular DOTATATE uptake scores and clinical status [Time Frame: 0 and 6 months]
Correlation between vascular DOTATATE uptake scores and cumulative glucocorticoid exposure [Time Frame: 0 and 6 months]
Secondary ID(s)
Pro00085448
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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