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Adrenal Hyperplasia, CongenitalNCT00529841

Research Study for Children With Salt Wasting Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia

A study testing Hydrocortisone sodium acetate in people with Adrenal Hyperplasia, Congenital, run by Baylor College of Medicine at 1 site in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

The purpose of this study is to develop a more physiological approach to the management of children and adolescents with salt wasting Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia. We will administer the glucocorticosteroid via insulin infusion pump to see whether this treatment will improve the serum hormone concentrations. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 3 to 18 years
Conditions the study is for
Adrenal Hyperplasia, Congenital
What is being tested?
Hydrocortisone sodium acetate
Type of treatment
Injection or infusion
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
7 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
Jan 2007to Sep 2008
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 3 to 18 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Child, Adult

Who may be able to join

  • Children with salt wasting CAH otherwise healthy without other chronic disease
  • Age: between 3 and 18 years of age
  • Body weight 23 kg (50 lbs) or above
  • Hemoglobin equal to or higher than 12 g/dl before the study
  • Supportive family environment

Who cannot join

  • Age less than 3 or older than 18 years at the time of study
  • Other chronic disease
  • Hemoglobin less than 12 g/dl
  • Non-supportive family
  • Allergy to local anesthetics
  • Criteria for study termination: If the subject's parents are unable to manage/operate the pump, the subject will be withdrawn from the study.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • BCM, Texas Children's Hospital Clinic and General Clinical Research Center

    Houston, Texas, 77030

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About this study

Official title: A Novel Therapeutic Modality for Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia

The purpose of this study is to develop a more physiological approach to the management of children and adolescents with salt wasting Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia.

We will administer the glucocorticosteroid via insulin infusion pump to see whether this treatment will improve the serum hormone concentrations.

Read the detailed description

The adrenal gland is a small organ of the body. It produces very important chemicals called hormones. One of these hormones, cortisol (the stress hormone) helps the body fight diseases. The other hormone is the aldosterone helps to maintain the normal amount of salt and water in the body. The third type of hormones are the androgens or male hormones, which cause some of the changes during puberty, like the growth of body hair and pimples.

The salt wasting Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia or CAH disease is a disease of the adrenal gland. Patients with this disease cannot make cortisol or the aldosterone. As a result, their body cannot fight diseases and cannot keep normal amounts of salt and water in the body. At the same time, the gland makes too much of the male hormones, which is bad for the body because too much male hormone slows down growth, increases the growth of body hair, and causes pimples and abnormal period in girls.

Patients with this disease have to take medications every day. However, the treatment does not work very well, because usually the patients do not have the right amount of hormone in their body. Usually the body gets too much hormone right after taking the pills. A couple of hours later the body has too little of the hormones, because in the meantime the body gets rid of the medication.The healthy adrenal gland makes the hormones throughout the day in different amounts. The patients with this disease take the medication only a couple of times a day. They take the Florinef tablet once a day and the Cortisol tablet two or three times a day. The treatment that we use today by mouth cannot copy the natural hormone productions of the adrenal gland. Because of this it does not make much of a difference in the patient's life.

We would like to improve the treatment and find out the effect of a new treatment. In this study we will try to imitate the body's normal hormone production and will give the medication via an insulin pump to see if this treatment method will decrease the male hormones in the blood. This study will help us to develop a new and better treatment for children and adolescents.

Being tested
Hydrocortisone sodium acetate
Keywords
Salt Wasting Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, Subcutaneous Hydrocortisone
Medical subject headings
Adrenal Hyperplasia, Congenital

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Hydrocortisone sodium acetateDrug

    Also called Solu-Cortef injection

    Subcutaneous administration of medication via insulin pump

Study groups in NCT00529841
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
1 (Hydrocortisone sodium acetate)ExperimentalSubcutaneous administration of Hydrocortisone sodium acetate via insulin pump
Receives: Drug: Hydrocortisone sodium acetate

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Serum 17-OHP concentration in the morning

    Measured: 11 days

Secondary outcomes (3)
  1. serum steroid hormone profiles

    Measured: 11 days

  2. serum blood glucose

    Measured: study days 2,3 and 11

  3. serum sodium

    Measured: study days 2,3 and 11

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted14 Sep 2007 (estimated)
  2. Study startJan 2007
  3. Primary completionSep 2008
  4. Study completionSep 2008

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
7 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT00529841
Sponsor's protocol ID
H-19704
Other IDs
GCRC # 0962
Status last verified
Sep 2015
First submitted
12 Sep 2007
Last updated
14 Sep 2015
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No

Publications

  • Esteban NV, Loughlin T, Yergey AL, Zawadzki JK, Booth JD, Winterer JC, Loriaux DL. Daily cortisol production rate in man determined by stable isotope dilution/mass spectrometry. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1991 Jan;72(1):39-45. doi: 10.1210/jcem-72-1-39.

    PubMed 1986026
  • Kerrigan JR, Veldhuis JD, Leyo SA, Iranmanesh A, Rogol AD. Estimation of daily cortisol production and clearance rates in normal pubertal males by deconvolution analysis. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1993 Jun;76(6):1505-10. doi: 10.1210/jcem.76.6.8501158.

    PubMed 8501158
  • Speiser PW. Toward better treatment of congenital adrenal hyperplasia. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 1999 Sep;51(3):273-4. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1999.00780.x. No abstract available.

    PubMed 10469004
  • Cutler GB Jr, Laue L. Congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency. N Engl J Med. 1990 Dec 27;323(26):1806-13. doi: 10.1056/NEJM199012273232605. No abstract available.

    PubMed 2247119
  • Winterer J, Chrousos GP, Loriaux DL, Cutler GB Jr. Effect of hydrocortisone dose schedule on adrenal steroid secretion in congenital adrenal hyperplasia. J Pediatr. 1985 Jan;106(1):137-42. doi: 10.1016/s0022-3476(85)80486-8.

    PubMed 3871229
  • Wallace WH, Crowne EC, Shalet SM, Moore C, Gibson S, Littley MD, White A. Episodic ACTH and cortisol secretion in normal children. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 1991 Mar;34(3):215-21. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.1991.tb00297.x.

    PubMed 1645237
  • Merza Z, Rostami-Hodjegan A, Memmott A, Doane A, Ibbotson V, Newell-Price J, Tucker GT, Ross RJ. Circadian hydrocortisone infusions in patients with adrenal insufficiency and congenital adrenal hyperplasia. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 2006 Jul;65(1):45-50. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2006.02544.x.

    PubMed 16817818
  • Lukert BP. Editorial: glucocorticoid replacement--how much is enough? J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2006 Mar;91(3):793-4. doi: 10.1210/jc.2005-2737. No abstract available.

    PubMed 16522704
  • Claude J.Migeon. Can the Long Range Results of the Treatment of Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia be improved? JCEM 1996 Vol 81, No 9 3187-3189

  • Laue L, Merke DP, Jones JV, Barnes KM, Hill S, Cutler GB Jr. A preliminary study of flutamide, testolactone, and reduced hydrocortisone dose in the treatment of congenital adrenal hyperplasia. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1996 Oct;81(10):3535-9. doi: 10.1210/jcem.81.10.8855797.

    PubMed 8855797
  • Mah PM, Jenkins RC, Rostami-Hodjegan A, Newell-Price J, Doane A, Ibbotson V, Tucker GT, Ross RJ. Weight-related dosing, timing and monitoring hydrocortisone replacement therapy in patients with adrenal insufficiency. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 2004 Sep;61(3):367-75. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2004.02106.x.

    PubMed 15355454
  • Sheila K.Gunn et al Subcutaneous Hydrocortisone Delivery mimics Physiologic Cortisol Concentrations, Poster, Endocrine Society Meeting 2000

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing Hydrocortisone sodium acetate in people with Adrenal Hyperplasia, Congenital, run by Baylor College of Medicine at 1 site in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 5 inclusion and 6 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 14 Sep 2015. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Serum 17-OHP concentration in the morning (time frame: 11 days). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT00529841, which also lists 12 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 14 Sep 2015.

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