Effects of the Administration of Ornithine Phenylacetate in Patients With Cirrhosis and Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding

PHASE2/PHASE3CompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

48

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

October 31, 2011

Primary Completion Date

March 31, 2015

Study Completion Date

March 31, 2015

Conditions
Gastrointestinal BleedingCirrhosis
Interventions
DRUG

Ornithine-phenylacetate

"Phase A: Open-label scalating dose of OP. Treatment will be initiated at 1/3 of the final dose and will be scalated every 12 hours up to the full dose, except if there are problems of tolerance. Duration of the infusion 5 days.~Phase B: Comparative study of experimental drug vs placebo for 5 days OP (OCR-002) at a dose of 10 g diluted in 150 ml of water for injection administered as a continuous i.v. infusion for 24 hours (8.3 ml/h)during 5 days."

Trial Locations (1)

08035

Hospital Vall Hebron, Barcelona

All Listed Sponsors
lead

Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron Research Institute

OTHER

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