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Pilot Study Using a Heat Pack to Treat Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (HECT)

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Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia

Status

Conditions

Cutaneous Leishmaniasis

Treatments

Device: Heat pack conduction-heat therapy

Study type

Expanded Access

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

Details and patient eligibility

About

Current standard therapies with chemotherapy (CT) for Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (CL) are expensive, toxic/allergenic, frequently ineffective, burdensome, and often unavailable. Thermotherapy is a clinically validated first line alternative for the treatment of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in South America. However, current heat-delivery modalities are either too costly or lack governmental approval required to be made widely available to endemic areas. The investigators have adapted a reliable, safe, and low-cost heat pack for Cutaneous Leishmaniasis that the investigators have named the HECT-CL device. In this pilot study the investigators will enroll 25 patients who have either failed or are not candidates for pentivalent antimonies. The hypothesis states that the HECT-CL device demonstrates efficacy non-statistically inferior to estimates for current South American Pentavalent Antimonial cure rates (76%) while demonstrating basic safety and tolerability.

Sex

All

Ages

8 to 80 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • with CL diagnosed by skin smear (WHO method), biopsy, culture, PCR
  • aged 8-80 years old
  • with no more than 3 lesions
  • ulcerative and non-ulcerative ulcers less than 4 cm diameter.
  • allergy, prohibitive side effects to standard chemotherapy, or other contraindication to antimonial treatment (e.g. cardiac arrhythmia)
  • capable of signing an informed consent or having capable guardians (in the case of minors).
  • Children ≥ 8 years of age must give written or verbal informed assent along with written consent of their guardians.

Exclusion criteria

  • lesions less than 2cm from the nose, mouth, ears, or eyes.
  • clinically diagnosed with mucosal involvement.
  • evidence of lymph node involvement on exam.
  • unable or unwilling to commit to the treatment and follow-up plan.
  • prior CL treatment within last 1 month.
  • pregnant or lactating
  • uncontrolled severe systemic illness or immunocompromised state.

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Alejandro Llanos-Cuentas, MD, PhD

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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