Clinical trialNCT00011570CompletedPhase 2Interventional

Electrical Control of Bladder in Spinal Cord Injury Patients

SponsorUS Department of Veterans AffairsEnrollment18Spinal Cord Injury

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Summary

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The investigators will continue their work with implanted stimulators to improve bladder and bowel function. Electrical stimulation produces simultaneous contraction of sphincters with the target organs, making emptying difficult. By optimizing electrode placement, employing a new electrode design and waveform choice, it is hoped to improve the 50% of subjects able to defecate with existing approaches. This is part of a multi-center study with multiple support sources, including Rehab R\&D, PVA and a commercial stimulator company.

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Investigators

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Donald Bodner, MD
VA Medical Center-Cleveland
Principal Investigator
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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

Va Medical Center, Cleveland
Cleveland, Ohio, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study — it may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

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

Start: 30 Apr 1998
Primary completion: 31 Oct 2005
Completion: 30 Nov 2007
Last update posted: 28 Apr 2008
Registered enrollment: 18
Registry id: NCT00011570

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