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Screening of Fibrosing and/or Viral Chronic Hepatopathies in Jail
This study is currently recruiting participants.
Verified by University Hospital, Angers, May 2007
Sponsored by: University Hospital, Angers
Information provided by: University Hospital, Angers
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00453869
  Purpose

The prevalence of chronic hepatopathies is high in jail. However, the medical care of these hepatopathies is few developed. This study is an observational, an epidemiologic (screening and prevalence of fibrosing hepatopathies) and an evaluating study for a better taking care of these hepatopathies in jail. The aims of the study will be to evaluate the diagnostic performance of the FibroMeter score in the screening of the hepatic fibrosis in persons with multiple risk factors for liver fibrosis (alcoholism, intravenous drug users, tattoo, and virological status) with FibroScan® as gold standard; to evaluate the feasibility of these different screening tools for chronic hepatopathies in jail and to evaluate the prevalence of the fibrosing hepatopathies with clinically significant fibrosis and theirs risk factors, alcohol and hepatitis B and hepatitis C viruses in population from Angers jail.


Condition
Liver Fibrosis

MedlinePlus related topics: Hepatitis Hepatitis B Liver Diseases
U.S. FDA Resources
Study Type: Observational
Study Design: Screening, Longitudinal, Defined Population, Prospective Study
Official Title: Screening of Fibrosing and/or Viral Chronic Hepatopathies in Jail

Further study details as provided by University Hospital, Angers:

Estimated Enrollment: 417
Study Start Date: April 2007
Estimated Study Completion Date: June 2008
Detailed Description:

Primary outcome: Screening of clinically significant fibrosis with FibroMeter blood score. Screening for hepatitis B and hepatitis C viruses.

Secondary outcome: Clinically significant fibrosis confirmed with FibroScan®.

The means for this study are a clinical questionnaire, a virological screening, a blood score for liver fibrosis: FibroMeter according to cause of the fibrosis and FibroScan® is referent and independent examination.

The expected results from this study are the knowledge of the prevalence of hepatopathies with hepatic fibrosis will be able to justify, possibly, a screening politic of them. This study will permit to evaluate the feasibility of noninvasive screening of the liver fibrosis in the goal to suppress the liver biopsy in a population having numerous drawbacks.

  Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:   Male
Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Person over 18,
  • All new inmates, for less than one month, in Angers jail,
  • To have a written informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • No consent obtained from person,
  • Detention inferior to one month,
  • Person under 18.
  Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00453869

Contacts
Contact: Paul CALES, MD, PhD 33 2 41 35 34 10 paul.cales@univ-angers.fr

Locations
France
University Hospital Angers Recruiting
Angers, France, 49 933
Contact: Pascal VEILLON, PhD     33 2 41 35 49 59     PaVeillon@chu-angers.fr    
Sub-Investigator: Philippe RICHE, MD            
Sub-Investigator: Isabelle FOUCHARD-HUBERT, MD            
Sponsors and Collaborators
University Hospital, Angers
Investigators
Principal Investigator: Paul CALES, MD, PhD UH Angers
  More Information

No publications provided

Study ID Numbers: PHRC 2006-05, DGS 2006-0142 ; CPP 2006/27bis
Study First Received: March 28, 2007
Last Updated: May 22, 2007
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00453869  
Health Authority: France: Direction Général de la Santé – French General Health Administration

Keywords provided by University Hospital, Angers:
Liver fibrosis
Hepatitis B virus and C virus
FibroMeter
FibroScan®

Study placed in the following topic categories:
Virus Diseases
Hepatitis
Liver Diseases
Hepatic fibrosis
Digestive System Diseases
Fibrosis
Hepatitis B
Liver Cirrhosis

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Pathologic Processes

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on February 11, 2009