STATUS: Recruiting
SPONSORS:
University of California, San Francisco
Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
The purpose of this study is to test if sildenafil is effective in the treatment of infants with severe congenital diaphragmatic hernia (determined by the presence of prolonged pulmonary hypertension or prolonged oxygen supplementation on mechanical ventilation), as measured by the estimated pulmonary artery systolic pressure following treatment.
Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Treatment
Chronic Sildenafil for Severe Diaphragmatic Hernia
Ages Eligible for Study: N/A - 42 Days
Both
Study ID Numbers: K23HL79922-01
Date study started: February 2006
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Information obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov on May 22, 2013
This directory includes clinical trials that involve researchers at UCSF Medical Center. The information was obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov, a database of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
