Clinical trialNCT02979249CompletedInterventional

Oral Iron for Erythropoietic Protoporphyrias

SponsorIcahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiEnrollment16EPPErythropoietic ProtoporphyriaX-linked ProtoporphyriaXLP

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Summary

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In the medical literature there are conflicting reports on whether iron improves symptoms in patients with EPP and XLP. Giving iron to people who are iron deficient is thought to improve EPP symptoms. However, this has never been systematically tested. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to determine the effect of oral iron for EPP and XLP patients.

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Investigators

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Manisha Balwani, MD, MS
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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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

University of Alabama, Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
University of California
San Francisco, California, United States
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York, United States
Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, Texas, United States
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

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Drugs studied

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

Iron

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Registration & key dates

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

Start: 31 Dec 2016
Primary completion: 19 Jul 2019
Completion: 19 Jul 2019
Last update posted: 11 Sept 2020
Registered enrollment: 16
Registry id: NCT02979249

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