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NCT05470998CompletedPhase 3

L-Arginine in Children Having Sickle Cell Disease With Increased Tricuspid Regurgitant Jet Velocity

Clinical Study to Evaluate the Possible Efficacy and Safety of L-Arginine in Children Having Sickle Cell Disease With Increased Tricuspid Regurgitant Jet Velocity

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 22 Jan 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

This study aims to investigate the possible efficacy and safety of L-Arginine in children having Sickle Cell Disease with increased Tricuspid Regurgitant Jet Velocity

Status (registry)
Completed
Phase (registry)
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
50 (actual)
First submitted
17 Jul 2022
Start date
25 Jul 2022
Primary completion date
1 Oct 2024
Lead sponsor
Tanta University
NCT number
NCT05470998

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional · Phase 3
  • Participants enrolled: 50
  • From 25 Jul 2022 to the primary completion date, 1 Oct 2024
  • 1 site in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

Built from the registry fields of ClinicalTrials.gov. It describes the study, not your situation.

Who cannot take part

Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.

Other illness

  • Patients with documented causes of pulmonary hypertension other than SCD.
  • Allergy to L-arginine.

Lab values

  • Hepatic dysfunction: serum Alanine Aminotransferase (ALT) \> 3X upper value.
  • Renal dysfunction: Creatinine level greater than or equal to 1.2 mg/dl.

Other

  • Another chronic hemolytic anemia.
  • Patients with Asthma.

Who the study is looking for

  • children having Sickle Cell Disease with increased Tricuspid Regurgitant Jet Velocity
  • age 5-18 years

Age in the registry: 5 years to 18 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (1)

Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.

SiteCityCountrySite status
Tanta university
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TantaEgyptUnknown status

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