Impact on Reducing the Incidence of Low Serum Calcium by Providing Educational Materials on the Need to Take Daily Supplemental Calcium and Vitamin D to Patients With Paget's Disease Treated With Reclast®

NCT00668200 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 81

Last updated 2015-03-06

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Summary

This study will evaluate the impact of investigator and patient education and educational materials to foster calcium and vitamin D supplementation to mitigate the potential for hypocalcemia post Reclast® administration in patients with Paget's disease of bone.

Conditions

Interventions

DRUG

Reclast (ZOL446, zoledronic acid)

5 mg i.v. annually ("real-life, physician prescribed")

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Calcium

1500 mg elemental calcium daily in divided doses (the divided doses were 2-3 times per day depending on the formulation)

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Vitamin D

800 IU vitamin D daily, particularly in the immediate 2 weeks following zoledronic acid administration

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals · Novartis Pharmaceuticals

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-05-31
Primary Completion
2012-11-30
Completion
2012-11-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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