A study of the efficacy and safety of Genotonorm in short stature patients with a history of intrauterine growth retardation. A two-year, open randomized study. Genetic-molecular and biochemical-hormonal evaluation.
DEC-NET Serial number ES396
Published online03/05/2005 13.21.00
Last updated21/04/2006 14.51.42
Other protocol ID numberRCIU 307-MET-0021-003
Current trial statusComplete(closed to recruitment of participants: follow-up complete)
Major Disease
(ICD9 class)
FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION UNSPECIFIED WEIGHT
Experimental drug
Growth hormone
GenderBoth
Age (range)Over 3 years old

Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
Boys or girls with a history of intrauterine growth retardation assessed as body weight and/or stature at birth or = 10 ng/ml (one or two tests); obtainment of informed consent in writing from the patient/legal representative.
Exclusion criteria
GH secretion < 10 ng/ml after pharmacological test; post-ischemic neonatal enceophalopathy; associated endocrine pathology, except hypothyroidism with substitution therapy; chronic steroid treatment; serious chronic illness (blood pathology, pulmonary disease, liver pathology, malabsortion, neurological alterations, etc); neoplasms; a history of intracranial radiation; syndromes except Sylver-Russell; chromosomal alterations; patients previously treated with growth hormone.

Trial design/methodology
Phase4
Kind of studyEfficacy
Safety
DesignControlled
Randomised
Purpose of study
The primary objective is to study the efficacy on growth in Standard Deviation Score (SDS) of stature and the genetic-molecular and metabolic-hormonal status of intrauterine growth retardation. The secondary objective is to study the efficacy and safety of Genotonorm.
Primary outcomes
SDS (Standard Deviation Score) of the height.
Secondary outcomes
Auxologic data Bone age
Principal investigator
NameAntonio Carrascosa
InstitutionHospital Infantil Vall d'Hebron. Servicio de Pediatría.
Postal addressPaseo Vall d'Hebron, 119-129.
CityBarcelona (08035)
CountrySPAIN
Phone+34 93 489 30 64
Fax+34 93 489 30 65
E-mail


Promoter
Pfizer, S.A. (Industry)


Participating centres
Hosp. Vall d'Hebron (Barcelona)
Hosp. Santa Creu i Sant Pau (Barcelona)
Hosp. Sant Joan de Déu (Barcelona)
Hosp. Sagrat Cor (Barcelona)
Hosp. Germans Trias i Pujol (Badalona (Barcelona))
Hosp. de Terrassa (Terrassa (Barcelona))
Hosp. Parc Taulí (Sabadell (Barcelona))
Hosp. General de Granollers (Granollers (Barcelona))
Hosp. Sant Joan de Reus (Reus (Tarragona))
Hosp. General de Valencia (Valencia)
Hosp. Materno-Infantil Son Dureta (Mallorca)
Hosp. Arnau de Vilanova (Lleida)
Hosp. Miguel Servet (Zaragoza)
Hosp. de Cruces (Baracaldo (Vizcaya))
Hosp. de Basurto (Bilbao)
Hosp. Marqués de Valdecilla (Santander)
Hosp. La Paz (Madrid)
Hosp. 12 de Octubre (Madrid)
Hosp. Universitario de Getafe (Getafe (Madrid))
Hosp. Gregorio Marañón (Madrid)
Hosp. Virgen de la Salud (Toledo)
Hosp. de Txagorritxu (Vitoria)
Hosp. Virgen de las Nieves (Granada)
Hosp. Materno-Inf. de Málaga Carlos Haya (Málaga)
Hosp. Universitario Reina Sofía (Córdoba)
Hosp. Virgen del Rocío (Sevilla)
Hosp. Puerta del Mar (Cádiz)
Hosp. Ntra. Sra. de la Candelaria (Sta. Cruz de Tenerife)
Hosp. General Yagüe (Burgos)
Hosp. Universitario de Canarias (Sta. Cruz de Tenerife)

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