Clinical trialNCT00771446CompletedPhase 1/PHASE2Interventional

Safety & Efficacy of the Extracorporeal Liver Assist Device (ELAD) System in Patients With Hepatic Insufficiency

SponsorVital Therapies, Inc.Enrollment18Acute HepatitisChronic Hepatitis

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Summary

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Evaluate on how well the ELAD system works in treating people with liver failure.

Investigators

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Donald Hillebrand, MD
Scripps Green Hospital
Principal Investigator
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Helen Te, MD
University of Chicago
Principal Investigator
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Lena Napolitano, MD
University of Michigan Hospital
Principal Investigator
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Robert Brown, MD
Columbia University
Principal Investigator
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Todd Frederick, MD
California Pacific Medical Center
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Winfred Williams, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Principal Investigator
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Sites

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

United States

Scripps Clinic
La Jolla, California, United States
California Pacific Medical Center
San Francisco, California, United States
University of Chicago Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
University of Michigan Hospital
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Columbia University Medical Center
New York, New York, United States

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Drugs studied

The drug and biological interventions registered on this study, normalized to their RxNorm ingredient where possible.

ELAD plus standard of care treatment

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Registration & key dates

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

Start: 31 Oct 2008
Primary completion: 30 Apr 2009
Completion: 30 Apr 2009
Last update posted: 12 Apr 2013
Registered enrollment: 18
Registry id: NCT00771446

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.