NCT02055534

Nutritional Counseling in Systemic Immunoglobulin Light-chain Amyloidosis

Nutritional Counseling in Systemic Immunoglobulin Light-chain (AL) Amyloidosis: a Prospective Randomized, Controlled Trial.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 144 (actual)
• Sponsor: Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo di Pavia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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

Type	Name	Description
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

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-07-01
• Primary completion: 2013-09-01
• Completion: 2013-09-01
• First posted: 2014-02-05
• Last updated: 2025-05-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy