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Caustic Esophageal Burns in Children and High Doses of Methylprednisolone

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Sisli Hamidiye Etfal Training and Research Hospital

Status and phase

Completed
Phase 4

Conditions

Esophageal Diseases

Treatments

Drug: methylprednisolon

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02002078
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Details and patient eligibility

About

Corrosive substance ingestion in childhood is a public health issue in developing countries and several management protocols were proposed to prevent esophageal strictures. The role of corticosteroids in preventing corrosive-induced strictures is controversial. The investigators' aim is to study the influence of high doses of corticosteroids to prevent esophageal strictures.

Enrollment

83 patients

Sex

All

Ages

12 months to 17 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

-Corrosive substance ingested children with grade IIb esophageal burn

Exclusion criteria

  • Caustic substance ingested chldren grade I, IIa and grade III esophageal burns
  • Caustic subtance ingested children with signs of perforation, mediastinitis, peritonitis, sespis
  • Caustic substance ingested children with any chronic disease

Trial design

Primary purpose

Prevention

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Single Group Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

83 participants in 1 patient group

Methylprednisolone, caustic burns
No Intervention group
Treatment:
Drug: methylprednisolon

Trial contacts and locations

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