NCT06255873Completed
Effects of L-Carnitine on Gastric Emptying in Children With Drug Resistant Epilepsy on Ketogenic Diet
Effects of L-Carnitine Supplementation on Gastric Emptying in Children With Drug Resistant Epilepsy on Ketogenic Diet
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 20 Feb 2024
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study was conducted on thirty children aged from12 months to 18 years newly diagnosed with drug resistant epilepsy and following up at Pediatric Nutrition and Neurology Outpatient Clinics assigned randomly into 2 groups, group1: patients who started ketogenic diet with L-carnitine and group2: patients who started ketogenic diet only.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 30 (actual)
- First submitted
- 3 Feb 2024
- Start date
- 20 Jan 2023
- Primary completion date
- 22 Sept 2023
- Lead sponsor
- Ain Shams University
- Diseases
- Epilepsy
- NCT number
- NCT06255873
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 30
- From 20 Jan 2023 to the primary completion date, 22 Sept 2023
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Patients with intolerance or non-compliance to ketogenic diet therapy.
- Children with history of previous abdominal operations.
Other illness
- Patients for epilepsy surgery or vagal nerve stimulation.
- Children with history of GI diseases affecting GI motility before starting KD.
Other
- Children with tube feeding or feeding gastrostomy or jejunostomy.
Who the study is looking for
- All infants and children aged from 12 months to 18 years old newly diagnosed with drug resistant epilepsy and were assigned to start KD.
Age in the registry: 12 months to 18 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Faculty of Medicine-Ain Shams University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cairo | Egypt | Unknown status |
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