Overview

Hydroxychloroquine Efficacy in Chronic Urticaria

Status:
Withdrawn

Trial end date:
2012-06-01

Target enrollment:
0

Participant gender:
All

Summary

This study is for those people with difficult to treat hives. We are investigating whether or not a different medication, hydroxychloroquine, works to treat a certain type of hives. Hydrochloroquine is currently approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), for treating arthritis, therefore it is considered investigational in this study. Hypothesis: Hydroxychloroquine will prove to have an efficacious response in terms of Urticarial Symptoms, on patients with chronic urticaria.

Phase:

N/A

Accepts Healthy Volunteers?

Details

Lead Sponsor:

Vanderbilt University

Treatments:

Hydroxychloroquine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Inclusion:

1. Age >18, Age<65

2. Chronic Urticaria refractory to treatment with standard anti-histamines

3. Minimum Urticaria Score

Exclusion Criteria:

- Exclusion:

1. Pregnancy

2. Vasculitis

3. Trigger Induced Urticaria

4. Food intolerance

5. Malignancy

6. Kidney or liver dysfunction

7. Systemic diseases

8. Hypersensitivity to hydroxychloroquine