None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Sydney Children's Hospital is doing a study to see whether haemangiomas of infancy (strawberry marks) which are no longer flat or which have continued to grow in spite of oral corticosteroids (cortisone), or present when the baby is too old for steroid treatment, will stop growing and /or shrink when treated with propranolol. A recent report of 11 cases suggests that propranolol may be helpful in shrinking haemangiomas of infancy.
Interventions
Propranolol hydrochloride oral solution 2mg/kg/day divided three times daily for 24 weeks
Sponsors
Sydney Children's Hospital
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Blinded (masking used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
9 Weeks to 5 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
children between the ages of 9 weeks to 5 years with infantile hemangiomas that are deep, or in sites that could impair function or aesthetic disfigurement, or are too late for corticosteroid therapy or that failed to respond to corticosteroid therapy
Exclusion criteria
infantile hemangiomas requiring urgent treatment due to impingement on vital structures, contraindications to propranolol such as wheezing or PHACE syndrome (Posterior fossae of the brain, hemangiomas, arterial anomalies, cardiac anomalies and eye anomalies, due to the theoretical risk of cerebral ischemia) extracutaneous hemangiomas that can not be assessed by clinical photography and volume estimation, or inability to participate or follow study treatment and assessment plan.
Outcome results
None listed