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Nutritional Counseling in Systemic Immunoglobulin Light-chain Amyloidosis

NCT02055534 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 144

Last updated 2025-05-01

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Summary

Poor nutritional status is common in patients with systemic immunoglobulin light-chain (AL) amyloidosis and has been associated with mortality and impaired quality of life (QoL). We investigated whether nutritional counseling is beneficial to the maintenance of nutritional status and QoL in AL outpatients.

Conditions

  • Amyloidosis

Interventions

OTHER

Nutritional counseling

Nutritional counseling consists in: personalized dietary prescription associated with regular (every 3 weeks) dietetic advise by a registered dietician. Follow-up evaluations take place also during the visits scheduled by the oncologists

OTHER

General dietary advices

General dietary advices are provided. Follow-up evaluations take place during the visits scheduled by the oncologists

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo di Pavia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Riccardo Caccialanza, MD · Nutrition and Dietetics Service, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Italy

  • Giampaolo Merlini, MD · Amyloidosis Research and Treatment Center, Biotechnology Research Laboratories, Department of Molecular Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo and University of Pavia, Italy

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-07-31
Primary Completion
2013-09-30
Completion
2013-09-30

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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