New injection trial aims to tame debilitating muscle and skin disease

NCT ID NCT04044690

Summary

This study tested whether regular injections of an immune-boosting medication (IgPro20) could help control the symptoms of dermatomyositis, a rare disease that causes muscle weakness and skin rashes. It involved 134 adults who received either the active injections or a placebo for 24 weeks. The main goal was to see if the treatment improved overall disease activity scores more than the placebo.

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • 0320077 - Centro Medico Privado de Reumatolgia

    San Miguel de Tucumán, T4000, Argentina

  • 0320081 - Fundacion Respirar

    Buenos Aires, C1426ABP, Argentina

  • 0320083 - Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

    Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, C1181ACH, Argentina

  • 0320084 - DIM Clinica Privada

    Buenos Aires, B1704ETD, Argentina

  • 0560048 - Universitair Ziekenhuis (UZ) Leuven

    Leuven, 3000, Belgium

  • 0560049 - CHU de Liège - Sart Tilman

    Liège, 4000, Belgium

  • 0560050 - Ghent Universit Hospital (UZ Gent)

    Ghent, 9000, Belgium

  • 0560056 - Universitair Ziekenhuis Leuven

    Leuven, 3000, Belgium

  • 2500132 - Hopital Pitie-Salpetriere

    Paris, 75013, France

  • 2500133 - CHU - Hospital de la Timone

    Marseille, 13385, France

  • 2500135 - CHU Nice-Hopital Archet I

    Nice, 06202, France

  • 2500144 - Hopitaux Universitaire de Strasbourg

    Strasbourg, 67098, France

  • 2500146 - CHU De Dijon Hopital Du Bocage

    Dijon, 21079, France

  • 2500188 - Centre Hospitalier Regional Universitaire de Lille

    Lille, 59037, France

  • 2760036 - University Medicine Göttingen

    Göttingen, 37075, Germany

  • 2760199 - University Hospital Köln

    Cologne, 50937, Germany

  • 2760201 - Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MHH)

    Hanover, 30625, Germany

  • 2760203 - Charité

    Berlin, 10117, Germany

  • 2760210 - University of Münster

    Münster, 48149, Germany

  • 2760211 - Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

    Berlin, 10117, Germany

  • 2760212 - University Hospital Of Tuebingen

    Tübingen, 72076, Germany

  • 2760268 - University of Ulm

    Ulm, 89081, Germany

  • 2760271 - Universitatsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus TU Dresden

    Dresden, 01307, Germany

  • 2760273 - Hautklinik des Uni-Klinikums Erlangen

    Erlangen, 91504, Germany

  • 3480048 - University of Debrecen

    Debrecen, 4032, Hungary

  • 3800132 - Universitaria Vittorio Emanuele

    Catania, 95124, Italy

  • 3800133 - Universita degli Studi Di Brescia - Azienda Ospedaliera Spedali Civili di Brescia

    Brescia, 25123, Italy

  • 3800134 - Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Pisana

    Pisa, 56124, Italy

  • 3800139 - Universita degli Studi Firenze

    Florence, 50134, Italy

  • 3920035 - Yamaguchi University Hospital

    Yamaguchi, 755-8505, Japan

  • 3920086 - St. Marianna University Hospital

    Kawasaki, Kanagawa, 216-8511, Japan

  • 3920087 - Wakayama Medical University Hospital

    Wakayama, 641-8509, Japan

  • 3920088 - Gunma University Hospital

    Maebashi, Gunma, 371-6511, Japan

  • 3920089 - Hokkaido University Hospital

    Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-8648, Japan

  • 3920090 - University Of Fukui Hospital

    Yoshida-Gun, Fukui, 910-1193, Japan

  • 3920091 - Nippon Medical School Hospital

    Bunkyō-Ku, Tokyo, 113-8603, Japan

  • 3920096 - Chukyo Hospital

    Nagoya, Aichi-ken, 457-8510, Japan

  • 3920097 - Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital

    Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan

  • 3920125 - Tokyo Medical And Dental University Medical Hospital

    Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-8519, Japan

  • 4840081 - Centro Integral en Reumatologia, SA de CV

    Guadalajara, Jalisco, 44160, Mexico

  • 4840082 - CINTRE, Centro de Investigacion y Tratamiento Reumatologico S.C.

    Mexico City, Mexico City, 11850, Mexico

  • 4840084 - Centro de Alta Especialidad en Reumatologia e Investigacion del Potosí, S.C.

    San Luis Potosí City, 78213, Mexico

  • 6160104 - Zespol Poradni Specjalistycznych REUMED, ONYKSOWA Filia nr 2

    Lublin, 20-582, Poland

  • 6160117 - MedicalConcierge Centrum Medyczne

    Warsaw, 02-798, Poland

  • 6430120 - St. Petersburg City Rheumatological Hospital 25

    Saint Petersburg, 190068, Russia

  • 6430122 - City Clinical Hospital No. 5

    Nizhny Novgorod, 603005, Russia

  • 6430123 - Yaroslavl Oblast Clinical Hospital

    Yaroslavl, 150007, Russia

  • 6430124 - ORIS Firm Limited Liability Company

    Moscow, 117321, Russia

  • 6430125 - Medical Centre-Healthy Family

    Novosibirsk, 630099, Russia

  • 7240011 - Hospital Universitario Valle de Hebron

    Barcelona, 08035, Spain

  • 7240086 - Complejo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña

    A Coruña, 15006, Spain

  • 7240112 - Hospital Clinic Barcelona

    Barcelona, 08036, Spain

  • 7560028 - Kantonsspital St. Gallen

    Sankt Gallen, 9007, Switzerland

  • 7560033 - University Hospital Bern Inselspital

    Bern, 3010, Switzerland

  • 8040051 - Kyiv Railway Clinical Hospital No.2

    Kyiv, 03049, Ukraine

  • 8040052 - Institute of Rheumatology

    Kyiv, 02081, Ukraine

  • 8040053 - Cherkassy Regional Hospital

    Cherkasy, 18009, Ukraine

  • 8040054 - Modern Clinic LLC

    Zaporizhia, 69005, Ukraine

  • 8040055 - Mechnikov Institute of Microbiology and Immunology

    Kharkiv, 61029, Ukraine

  • 8040057 - Khmelnitskiy Regional Hospital

    Khmelnytskyi, 29000, Ukraine

  • 8040058 - State Institution National Scientific Center Strazhesko

    Kiev, 03151, Ukraine

  • 8401107 - Morsani Center for Advanced Health Care (CAHC)

    Tampa, Florida, 33616, United States

  • 8401115 - The University of Texas Medical School at Houston

    Houston, Texas, 77030, United States

  • 8401117 - Arizona Arthritis & Rheumatology Research

    Glendale, Arizona, 85306, United States

  • 8401129 - UCLA - Rheumatology Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States

  • 8401132 - Omega Research Maitland

    Orlando, Florida, 32810, United States

  • 8401151 - Biomedical Science Tower

    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15261, United States

  • 8401152 - The University of Kansas Medical Center

    Fairway, Kansas, 66205, United States

  • 8401160 - Center For Rheumatology

    Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 33334, United States

  • 8401199 - Neuromuscular Research Center

    Phoenix, Arizona, 85028, United States

  • 8401210 - University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, United States

  • 8401473 - RecioMed Clinical Research Network, Inc.

    Boynton Beach, Florida, 33472, United States

  • 8401474 - West Tennessee Research Institute, LLC

    Jackson, Tennessee, 38305, United States

  • 8401476 - DS Research

    Louisville, Kentucky, 40241, United States

  • 8401486 - Oregon Health and Science University

    Portland, Oregon, 97239, United States

  • 8401487 - Ohio State University

    Columbus, Ohio, 43210, United States

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