Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-25 @ 1:23 AM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-25 @ 1:23 AM
NCT ID:
NCT00338793
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
* Signed written informed consent;
* Presented with clinical features suggesting pleural tuberculosis;
* Had not previously received treatment or prophylaxis for tuberculosis;
* Had not recently received treatment with glucocorticoids;
* Were not pregnant or breast-feeding.
Exclusion Criteria:
* Failed to complete the screening procedures;
* Were seropositive for HIV
* Tuberculous meningitis;
* Had risk factors for serious steroid-related adverse events (a history of diabetes or positive urine glucose, a history or clinical finding of hypertension, or a history of peptic ulcer disease or mental illness);
* Standard doses of antituberculosis drugs could not be used (as in participants with concurrent liver disease)
* Psychiatric illness;
* Alcoholism.
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
18 Years
Study:
NCT00338793
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT00338793