Actively Recruiting
Gag Therapy for Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection Assessing Comparability to International Nitrofurantoin Gold Standard Study
Led by Radboud University Medical Center · Updated on 2024-11-18
100
Participants Needed
3
Research Sites
258 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
R
Radboud University Medical Center
Lead Sponsor
I
IBSA Institut Biochimique SA
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
The GT RACING is a study comparing the efficacy of HA-CS bladder installations with prophylactic antibiotics in the prevention of recurrent urinary tract infections (rUTI).
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Gag Therapy for Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection Assessing Comparability to International Nitrofurantoin Gold Standard Study
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Adult female patients (>18 years) who had at least 3 symptomatic urinary tract infections in the previous year with no adequate curable therapeutic options
- At least one urinary tract infection must be confirmed with a positive culture and antibiogram
- Further urinary tract infections must be confirmed with urine sediment positive for nitrite or a positive culture
You will not qualify if you...
- Male
- Under 18 years old
- Pregnant
- Already receiving GAG therapy
- Already on prophylactic antibiotics
- Started or stopped cranberry/d-mannose therapy or vaginal estrogen cream in the last two months
- Had gentamicin or other antibiotic instillations in the previous two months
- Allergic to more than three regularly used antibiotics in Dutch guidelines (including nitrofurantoin, trimethoprim, fosfomycin)
- Presence of urinary fistula
- Urinary stones
- Urogenital cancer
- Bladder Pain Syndrome or Interstitial Cystitis
- Chronic pelvic pain
- Had a sexually transmitted disease untreated or treated in the previous two months
- Urinary diversion
- Indwelling catheter
- Suprapubic catheter
- Performing self-catheterization more than once per day
- Post-void residual urine volume greater than 200ml
- Unable or legally incapable of giving informed consent
- Recurrent urosepsis
- Multiresistant bacteria found in previous urine cultures
- Contraindications or interactions for nitrofurantoin (severe kidney dysfunction with GFR < 30, lung or liver problems, neuropathy from previous nitrofurantoin use, acute porphyria, known G6PD deficiency, use of magnesium trisilicate)
- Contraindications or interactions for trimethoprim (severe kidney or liver dysfunction, abnormal blood count, use of vitamin K antagonists, folic acid antagonists, or ACE inhibitors)
- Severe lung or respiratory dysfunction (reduced lung capacity, lung cancer, fibrosis, COPD)
- Does not tolerate catheterization
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 3 locations
1
Radboudumc
Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands, 6525 GA
Actively Recruiting
2
Rijnstate ziekenhuis
Arnhem, Netherlands
Actively Recruiting
3
Canisius wilhelmina ziekenhuis
Nijmegen, Netherlands
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
D
Dick Janssen, MD, PhD
CONTACT
C
Cléo Baars, MD
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
PREVENTION
Number of Arms
2
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