A Multi-Center Group to Study Acute Liver Failure in Children

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT00986648

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Brief summary

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The PALF study group began with 20 sites and now continues with 12 sites (11 in the United States and 1 in Canada) in the new funding period. The primary objective of the Pediatric Acute Liver Failure (PALF) study is to collect, maintain, analyze, and report clinical, epidemiological, and outcome data in children with ALF, including information derived from biospecimens.

Study identification

NCT ID: NCT00986648
Recruitment status: Completed
Study type: Observational
Phase: Not listed
Lead sponsor: University of Pittsburgh; Other
Enrollment: 158 participants

Conditions and interventions

Conditions

Interventions

Not listed

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range: Up to 18 Years
Sex: All
Healthy volunteers: Healthy volunteers not accepted

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Study timeline

Start date: Jan 2000 (Type not available)
Primary completion: Dec 2015 (Actual)
Completion: Dec 2015 (Actual)
Last update posted: Jan 12, 2016

2000 – 2015

United States locations

U.S. sites: 17
U.S. states: 14
U.S. cities: 16

Facility	City	State	ZIP	Site status
University of California, San Francisco	San Francisco	California	94143	—
Children's Hospital Colorado	Aurora	Colorado	80045	—
Emory University, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta	Atlanta	Georgia	30322	—
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago	Chicago	Illinois	60611	—
Riley Children's Hospital	Indianapolis	Indiana	46202	—
Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore	Maryland	21287	—
Harvard University, Boston Children's Hospital	Boston	Massachusetts	02115	—
University of Michigan	Ann Arbor	Michigan	48109	—
St. Louis Children's Hospital	St Louis	Missouri	63110	—
Mount Sinai Hospital	New York	New York	10029	—
Columbia-Presbyterian	New York	New York	10032	—
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Children's Hospital	Cincinnati	Ohio	45229	—
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	19104	—
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC	Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania	15224	—
Children's Medical Center of Dallas	Dallas	Texas	75235	—
Baylor College of Medicine	Houston	Texas	77030	—
University of Washington	Seattle	Washington	98105	—

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Non-U.S. locations

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