Recruiting

Observational Study

Sponsor:

National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)

Code:

NCT00004331

Conditions

Porphyria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 0+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Study Details

Brief summary:

OBJECTIVES: I. Characterize enzyme defects in patients with known or suspected porphyria and their family members.

II. Determine whether selected patients are eligible for other porphyria research protocols.

III. Provide blood, urine, and fecal samples from well characterized patients and their family members to investigators studying the nature of specific mutations in genes for heme biosynthetic pathway enzymes.

Conditions

Porphyria

Study ID

NCT00004331

Start date

Nov, 1992

Status verified date

Dec, 2003

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 0+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

  • Suspected or confirmed porphyria
  • Adults, children, and family members eligible

Study Design

Enrollment

25 participants

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Central Contacts and Locations

Locations

University of Texas Medical Branch

Recruiting

Galveston, Texas, United States, 77555-1109

Contacts

Karl Elmo Anderson

409-772-4661

More Information

Sponsor

National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)

Last update posted

Jun 24, 2005

Last verified

Dec, 2003

Keywords

  • inborn errors of metabolism
  • porphyria
  • rare disease

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) on 2005-06-24.