Clinical trials: Transfusional Iron Overload
Hemochromatosis, Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Treatment of Iron Overload With Deferasirox (Exjade) in Hereditary Hemochromatosis and Myelodysplastic Syndrome
Hypothesis: Deferasirox can be used as a therapeutic agent to deplete the liver, heart and bone marrow of excess iron in patients with iron overload caused by myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and hemochromatosis (HC.
- Trial name
- DefeHEMY (NCT01892644)
- Testing
- Deferasirox, Venesection
- Where
- Norway
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Haukeland University Hospital
Iron Overload
Changes in Pituitary Iron and Volume With Deferasirox
Despite continuing advances in iron chelation therapy, iron toxicity of endocrine glands, particularly the pituitary gland, remains common in patients with transfusion dependent anemias.
- Trial name
- NCT01376622
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 130 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Children's Hospital Los Angeles
MRI Scans
Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) to Guide Iron Chelating Therapy
The overall goal of this research is to help develop a new magnetic resonance (MR) method, Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM), to improve the measurement of liver iron concentrations without the need for a liver biopsy.
- Trial name
- NCT04171635
- Testing
- Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), R2* Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 55 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Transfusional Iron Overload, Thalassemia Major
High-Tc Susceptometer to Monitor Transfusional Iron Overload
The proposed research project will continue the application and development of a new method (biomagnetic susceptometry) that measures magnetic fields to determine how much iron is in the liver.
- Conditions
- Transfusional Iron Overload, Thalassemia Major, Sickle Cell Disease, Myelodysplastic Syndromes
- Trial name
- NCT01241357
- Testing
- Hepatic biomagnetic susceptibility measurement
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 99 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Columbia University