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Clinical trialNCT01923376WithdrawnInterventional

Hepatic Encephalopathy: Lactulose or Polyethylene Glycol (H.E.L.P.)

SponsorNew York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist HospitalEnrollment0AMSAltered Mental StatusCirrhosisHEHepatic Encephalopathy
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Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether the use of polyethylene glycol is superior and more safe in treating hepatic encephalopathy compared to lactulose and also to determine if treatment with polyethylene glycol will reduce the duration of hospital stay.
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Investigators

The overall officials registered on this study. Names that resolve to a findmyKOL profile link to it; the rest are shown as registered.

  • Smruti R Mohanty, MD

    New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital

    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
  • New York Methodist Hospital

    Brooklyn, 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.

Lactulose →Polyethylene glycol 3350 →
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Registration & key dates

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

Start
28 Feb 2013
Primary completion
28 Feb 2014
Completion
28 Feb 2014
Last update posted
12 May 2015
Registered enrollment
0
Registry id
NCT01923376
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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.