Status:
COMPLETED
Bethaherpesviruses in Children Who Are Immune Suppressed
Lead Sponsor:
The Cleveland Clinic
Conditions:
Immune Suppressed Children
Eligibility:
All Genders
Up to 21 years
Brief Summary
Unexplained fever in children with cancer is a common occurrence, often requiring hospital admission for evaluation and treatment with intravenous antibiotics. While empiric use of intravenous antibio...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Newly diagnosed with cancer (leukemia, lymphoma, or solid tumor)
- Undergoing solid organ pre-transplantation evaluation
- Age birth to 21 years
Exclusion
- Unwilling to participate in the study
- Unwilling to have specimens stored for future research
- Clinical conditions preclude the required amount of blood to be drawn for the study
- Patient has malignancy that has relapsed
- Patient is not a primary transplant candidate (ie. has already had a solid organ transplant) -
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
November 1 2005
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
November 1 2015
Estimated Enrollment :
80 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00641121
Start Date
November 1 2005
End Date
November 1 2015
Last Update
January 12 2018
Active Locations (1)
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Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44195