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40 Years
70 Years
Not Enrolling
Both
Organ Transplants

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Trial Information


Inclusion Criteria:



- Organ transplant recipients.

- Age 40 years or older.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patients younger than 40 years and older than 70 years.

- Clinical signs of skin cancer, actinic keratoses or warts at the time of inclusion.

- Previous photodynamic therapy to the skin areas investigated.

- Pregnancy or breast feeding patients.

- Patients with porphyria.

- Patients with a tendency to produce hypertrophic scars or keloids.

- Patients with known allergy to Metvix.

- Patients who are not considered able to follow the treatment protocol (e.g. severely
alcoholic patients, dementia patients, mentally ill patients etc.).

Type of Study:

Interventional

Study Design:

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Single Blind

Principal Investigator

Merete Hædersdal, MD, PhD, DrMedSci

Investigator Role:

Principal Investigator

Investigator Affiliation:

Bispebjerg Hospital

Authority:

Denmark: The Ministry of the Interior and Health

Study ID:

KF-01-314759

NCT ID:

NCT00365521

Start Date:

April 2009

Completion Date:

Related Keywords:

  • Organ Transplants
  • Organ transplant patients receiving immunosuppressive therapy

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