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Administrative data

NCT number NCT00000494
Other study ID # 13
Secondary ID R01HL023121
Status Completed
Phase Phase 3
First received October 27, 1999
Last updated December 12, 2013
Start date September 1978
Est. completion date March 1982

Study information

Verified date April 2012
Source National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority United States: Federal Government
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

To evaluate the effects (up to one year of age) of indomethacin on the clinical course of patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) in premature infants (24 hours old or less) and to assess the relative merits of indomethacin and surgery in infants with persistent respiratory distress who were not treated early with indomethacin. Two concurrent trials were performed.


Description:

BACKGROUND:

The incidence of patent ductus arteriosus is higher in premature infants than in full-term infants and is highest in premature infants who have respiratory distress syndrome. It is generally agreed that intervention in an asymptomatic infant with a small left-to-right shunt is unnecessary, since the patent ductus almost invariably closes spontaneously and thus does not require surgery. A few infants will demonstrate signs of a large shunt during the course of respiratory distress syndrome. Many of these infants will improve with medical management of congestive heart failure, but others require surgical closure. A third group of babies with respiratory distress have severe progressive pulmonary disease requiring ventilatory support. There was disagreement as to whether elimination of the patent ductus in these infants resulted in decreased mortality. A variety of therapeutic approaches was being used, and there was no convincing evidence of the superiority of one treatment over another.

DESIGN NARRATIVE:

Trial A was a randomized, double-blind trial in which indomethacin plus usual medical therapy was compared with a placebo plus medical therapy. Where this regimen was unsuccessful, the code was broken, and infants who received indomethacin were treated surgically. Infants who had received placebo in Trial A were entered, if there were no contraindications to indomethacin, into Trial B. In Trial B, infants were randomized to surgery or indomethacin therapy. Those in whom indomethacin treatment was unsuccessful were treated surgically. The Recruitment and Intervention Phase began in April 1979. All patients were enrolled by March 31, 1981, and followed for one year after enrollment.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 0
Est. completion date March 1982
Est. primary completion date
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender Both
Age group N/A to 1 Year
Eligibility Boy and girl premature infants with patent ductus arteriosus. Birth weight of 1,750 grams or less. Admitted to participating institution within first 24 hours of life.

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Masking: Double-Blind, Primary Purpose: Treatment


Intervention

Drug:
indomethacin

Procedure:
surgery, cardiovascular


Locations

Country Name City State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

References & Publications (2)

Ellison RC, Peckham GJ, Lang P, Talner NS, Lerer TJ, Lin L, Dooley KJ, Nadas AS. Evaluation of the preterm infant for patent ductus arteriosus. Pediatrics. 1983 Mar;71(3):364-72. — View Citation

Gersony WM, Peckham GJ, Ellison RC, Miettinen OS, Nadas AS. Effects of indomethacin in premature infants with patent ductus arteriosus: results of a national collaborative study. J Pediatr. 1983 Jun;102(6):895-906. — View Citation

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