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Clinical trialNCT03350750CompletedInterventional

A Placebo-Controlled Effectiveness in INPH Shunting (PENS) Trial

SponsorJohns Hopkins UniversityEnrollment18Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (INPH)
View the registry record on ClinicalTrials.gov

Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

The Placebo-Controlled Effectiveness in Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (iNPH) Shunting (PENS) trial is a multi-center blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled design investigation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunt surgery to study the shunt effectiveness in iNPH patients.

Investigators

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Sites

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

Canada
  • University of Calgary

    Calgary, Alberta, Canada

  • Vancouver General Hospital/university of British Colombia

    Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada

Sweden
  • Umeå University

    Umeå, Sweden

United States
  • Johns Hopkins Medicine

    Baltimore, Maryland, United States

  • University of New Mexico

    Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

  • Cleveland Clinic

    Cleveland, Ohio, United States

  • University of Washington Medical Center

    Seattle, Washington, 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
21 May 2018
Primary completion
19 Mar 2021
Completion
18 May 2021
Last update posted
2 Aug 2022
Registered enrollment
18
Registry id
NCT03350750

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.