 Compassionate Use Trials
"Compassionate Use Trials" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Providing an investigational therapy to a patient who is not eligible to receive that therapy in a clinical trial, but who has a serious or life-threatening illness for which other treatments are not available. Compassionate use trials allow patients to receive promising but not yet fully studied or approved therapies when no other treatment option exists. Also called expanded access trial.
| Descriptor ID |
D057176
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.931.500 E05.337.300.199
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| Concept/Terms |
Compassionate Use Trials- Compassionate Use Trials
- Compassionate Use Trial
- Trial, Compassionate Use
- Trials, Compassionate Use
- Use Trials, Compassionate
- Expanded Access Trials
- Access Trial, Expanded
- Expanded Access Trial
- Trial, Expanded Access
- Trials, Expanded Access
Humanitarian Device Exemption- Humanitarian Device Exemption
- Device Exemption, Humanitarian
- Device Exemptions, Humanitarian
- Exemption, Humanitarian Device
- Exemptions, Humanitarian Device
- Humanitarian Device Exemptions
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| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2015 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Compassionate Use Trials" by people in Profiles.
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Praz F, Spargias K, Chrissoheris M, Büllesfeld L, Nickenig G, Deuschl F, Schueler R, Fam NP, Moss R, Makar M, Boone R, Edwards J, Moschovitis A, Kar S, Webb J, Schäfer U, Feldman T, Windecker S. Compassionate use of the PASCAL transcatheter mitral valve repair system for patients with severe mitral regurgitation: a multicentre, prospective, observational, first-in-man study. Lancet. 2017 Aug 19; 390(10096):773-780.
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Guerrero M, Urena M, Pursnani A, Wang DD, Vahanian A, O'Neill W, Feldman T, Himbert D. Balloon expandable transcatheter heart valves for native mitral valve disease with severe mitral annular calcification. J Cardiovasc Surg (Torino). 2016 Jun; 57(3):401-9.
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Forns X, Charlton M, Denning J, McHutchison JG, Symonds WT, Brainard D, Brandt-Sarif T, Chang P, Kivett V, Castells L, Prieto M, Fontana RJ, Baumert TF, Coilly A, Londoño MC, Habersetzer F. Sofosbuvir compassionate use program for patients with severe recurrent hepatitis C after liver transplantation. Hepatology. 2015 May; 61(5):1485-94.
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Hantel A, Olopade CO. Drug and vaccine access in the Ebola epidemic: advising caution in compassionate use. Ann Intern Med. 2015 Jan 20; 162(2):141-2.
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Verge CF, Konrad D, Cohen M, Di Cosmo C, Dumitrescu AM, Marcinkowski T, Hameed S, Hamilton J, Weiss RE, Refetoff S. Diiodothyropropionic acid (DITPA) in the treatment of MCT8 deficiency. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2012 Dec; 97(12):4515-23.
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Stadler WM, Figlin RA, McDermott DF, Dutcher JP, Knox JJ, Miller WH, Hainsworth JD, Henderson CA, George JR, Hajdenberg J, Kindwall-Keller TL, Ernstoff MS, Drabkin HA, Curti BD, Chu L, Ryan CW, Hotte SJ, Xia C, Cupit L, Bukowski RM. Safety and efficacy results of the advanced renal cell carcinoma sorafenib expanded access program in North America. Cancer. 2010 Mar 01; 116(5):1272-80.
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