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Clinical trialNCT00004493CompletedPhase 2Interventional

Phase II Pilot Randomized Study of Sodium Dichloroacetate in Patients With Congenital Lactic Acidemia

SponsorUniversity of California, San DiegoEnrollment75Lactic Acidosis
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Summary

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OBJECTIVES: I. Determine the pharmacokinetics of sodium dichloroacetate (DCA) in patients with congenital lactic acidemia. II. Determine the efficacy of DCA in decreasing the frequency and/or severity of acute episodes of acidotic illness, improving linear growth, improving neurological or developmental function, or slowing neurological or developmental deterioration in these patients.
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Investigators

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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States
  • University of California San Diego School of Medicine

    La Jolla, California, United States

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Drugs studied

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Dichloroacetate
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Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start
30 Sept 1998
Primary completion
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Completion
30 Sept 2003
Last update posted
25 Mar 2015
Registered enrollment
75
Registry id
NCT00004493
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