Safety and Efficacy of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation

The registered record

Accession number

NCT04014413

Lead sponsor

Chinese University of Hong Kong (other)

Registered condition naming hair loss

Alopecia

Also registered on this record

Crohn DiseaseUlcerative ColitisCeliac DiseaseIrritable Bowel SyndromeFunctional DysphoniaConstipationClostridium Difficile InfectionDiabetes MellitusObesityMultidrug -Resistant InfectionHepatic EncephalopathyMultiple SclerosisPseudo-ObstructionCarbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae InfectionVancomycin Resistant Enterococci InfectionMultiple Organ Dysfunction SyndromeDysbiotic Bowel SyndromeMRSA EnteritisPseudomembranous EnterocolitisAutismGraft-versus-host DiseaseIdiopathic Thrombocytopenic PurpuraAtopy or AllergyLiver DiseaseAlcohol DependencePsoriatic Arthropathy

Official title

Safety and Efficacy of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation: A Pilot Study

The first row holds the registered condition that placed this trial on the pipeline; the second holds everything else the sponsor registered on the same record. Both are shown, and shown apart rather than shaded differently, because leaving the second out would make this trial look more like a hair-loss study than its registration says it is — and because a distinction carried only by colour is not a distinction for every reader.

Interventions

• ProcedureFecal Microbiota Transplantation

Names and types as registered. The sponsors' free-text descriptions of these interventions are not reproduced: they are written by the party with an interest in the result, and reprinting them inside this site's layout would lend them this site's voice.

Design

Study type

interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Allocation

non randomized

Masking

none

Primary purpose

treatment

Enrolment

450 participants (estimated)

Sites

1 location in Hong Kong

What it measures

1. The efficacy of FMT in treating dysbiosis-associated disorder will be assessed by number of patients who have improvement in clinical symptoms (depends on each disease as stated in outcome)

   Time frame: 1 year

Primary outcome measures only, as registered. What a trial chose to measure, and when, is the most informative thing about it that is knowable before it reports — a hair-count endpoint at 24 weeks and a patient-satisfaction endpoint at 12 weeks are not the same study.

Who can take part

Sex

all

Healthy volunteers

not accepted

A summary of three registered fields, not the eligibility criteria. The full inclusion and exclusion criteria, the recruiting sites and the study contacts are on the registry record, which is the only place they are maintained. This site has no relationship with this trial and cannot refer anyone to it.

Registered dates

Study start

15 July 2019 (actual)

Primary completion

31 October 2030 (estimated)

Study completion

31 October 2030 (estimated)

First posted

10 July 2019 (actual)

Last update posted

22 August 2024 (actual)

"Estimated" and "actual" are the registry's own labels: an estimated date is a plan, and plans move. A date is printed at the precision it was registered at: this record registers a primary completion to the day, so a day is what is shown. Where a sponsor registers only a month, only a month is shown.

Results

This trial has not reported results. ClinicalTrials.gov holds no results record for it. That is the ordinary state of a trial that is running or about to run, and it means there is nothing here to tell you about whether the intervention works — including nothing negative. If this page implied otherwise it would be wrong.

On this site

Guides covering the condition this trial is registered for. They are about published evidence; this page is about a registration, and the two do not overlap.

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Where this came from

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