Blue dye could save lives in sepsis? new trial launches
NCT ID NCT07264543
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests if a medicine called methylene blue can help improve blood flow in patients with septic shock, a severe infection that causes dangerously low blood pressure. About 50 adults will receive either methylene blue or standard care for 3 days. The main goal is to see if a larger trial is possible, not yet to prove the drug works.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 2/3
Runs two stages together: whether the treatment works, then large-scale confirmation.
- Participants
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About 50 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jan 2026
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2026
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Adult patients with a diagnosis of sepsis and persistent hemodynamic dysfunction despite adequate fluid resuscitation, requiring escalation of noradrenaline dose to maintain mean arterial pressure ≥65 mmHg, with prolonged capillary refill time or septic shock according to Sepsis-3 definition, within less than 6 hours of the diagnosis, will be eligible for the study. Exclusion Criteria: * Pregnant or breastfeeding patients; * Patients with any withdrawal or withholding life-sustaining intervention; * Cardiac surgery patients in the immediate postoperative period; * Refractory septic shock, with a high propability of death within 24 hours; * Personal or familiar history of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency; * Allergy to methylene blue, phenothiazines, or food dyes; * Recent administration of linezolid (less than 14 days ago); * Recent intake of serotonergic psychiatric medications (less than 2 weeks ago - with the exception of fluoxetine, which must be less than 5 weeks ago), * Recent intake (less than 2 weeks ago) of monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs), such as rasagiline and selegiline.
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Irmandade da Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Curitiba
RECRUITINGCuritiba, Paraná, 80010-030, Brazil
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