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Tension-Type HeadachePhase 2NCT00276952

Gonyautoxin in the Treatment of Chronic Tension-Type Headache

A Phase 2 study testing Gonyautoxin in people with Tension-Type Headache, run by University of Chile at 1 site in Chile.

Terminated

Stopped early. The study ended before it was planned to and will not resume.

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Trial summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the clinical efficacy of Gonyautoxin 2/3 epimers in the treatment of patients diagnosed with chronic tensional-type headache in accordance with International Headache Society guidelines Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 to 80 years
Conditions the study is for
Tension-Type Headache
What is being tested?
Gonyautoxin
How many people
27 participants
Where
1 siteChile
Study dates
Sep 2004to Aug 2005
Phase
Phase 2
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 to 80 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Chronic tensional-type headache patients according to the International Headache Society criteria: patients with headache of a pressing or tightening quality with episodic frequency above 15 days a month
  • Refractory to conventional treatments such as, orally administered analgesics, systemic muscular relaxant, corticoids and antidepressant like Amytriptiline
  • Treated and controlled in the University Hospital Neurology Clinic over 2 years with duration of symptoms over 3 years

Who cannot join

  • Pregnancy
  • Use of headache prophylactic treatment a month prior to infiltration
  • Myasthenic syndromes
  • Muscular dystrophies
  • Inflammatory myopathies
  • Acute and chronic polineuropathies
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  • Use of psychotropic substances 24-hour before infiltration
  • Anticoagulant treatment
  • terminal illnesses (AIDS, cancer)
  • drugs or alcohol abuse

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

Chile1 site
  • Departament of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile.

    Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan, 0

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About this study

Official title: Phase 2 Study of Treatment of Chronic Tension-Type Headache Using Gonyautoxins

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the clinical efficacy of Gonyautoxin 2/3 epimers in the treatment of patients diagnosed with chronic tensional-type headache in accordance with International Headache Society guidelines

Read the detailed description

Gonyautoxin are phycotoxins, whose molecular mechanism of action is a reversible block of the voltage-gated sodium channels at neuronal level. They are axonal conduction blockers impeding nerve impulse propagation. In order to evaluate the clinical efficacy of Gonyautoxin 2/3 epimers in the treatment of patients diagnosed with chronic tensional-type headache, the patients were locally injected with placebo versus Gonyautoxin following a painful spots injection standarized protocol

Being tested
Gonyautoxin
Keywords
Gonyautoxins, Tension-type Headache, Human Treatment
Medical subject headings
Tension-Type Headache

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • GonyautoxinDrug

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. a) Drop off in the patient acute headache pain (2 minutes, weekly for 20 weeks)

  2. b) Number of days without headache pain following infiltration

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted13 Jan 2006 (estimated)
  2. Study startSep 2004
  3. Study completionAug 2005

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More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
Double blind
Enrolment
27 participants
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT00276952
Sponsor's protocol ID
HCUCH-NL-GTX-002
Status last verified
Sep 2005
First submitted
12 Jan 2006
Last updated
13 Jan 2006
Results posted
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 2 study testing Gonyautoxin in people with Tension-Type Headache, run by University of Chile at 1 site in Chile.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 3 inclusion and 10 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: stopped early, as of the sponsor's last update on 13 Jan 2006. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in Chile. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this phase mean?

Phase 2 studies give the treatment to a larger group to see whether it has the intended effect and to keep checking safety.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

The study was stopped early. Results are not available in the source record.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

a) Drop off in the patient acute headache pain (2 minutes, weekly for 20 weeks). The study lists 2 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 13 Jan 2006.

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