Conditions: Small Gestational Age (SGA)
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 22
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
Multicentric, open-label, randomized, pilot comparative study in parallel groups comparing 1 group of subjects receiving 0.057 milligram/kilogram/day (mg/kg/day) or 0.40 mg/kg/week of Saizen® during 1 year to 1 group receiving 0.035 mg/kg/day (0.24 mg/kg/week) of Saizen® during 1 year after an initial 3-year treatment of recombinant human growth hormone (r-hGH) therapy with 0.057 mg/kg/day in both groups.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Subjects who met all inclusion/exclusion criteria were randomly assigned to 0.057 mg/kg/day in this multi-center study. Subjects were stratified at randomization according to the Height-Standard Deviation Score (H-SDS) at this time (less than \[\<\] -2 SDS or greater than \[\>\] -2 SDS) arm 2: Subjects who met all inclusion/exclusion criteria were randomly assigned to 0.035 mg/kg/day in this multi-center study. Subjects were stratified at randomization according to the H-SDS at this time (\< -2 SDS or \> -2 SDS)

Interventions: intervention 1: Saizen® intervention 2: Saizen®
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Saizen® \[somatropin (recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid \[rDNA\] origin) for injection\], a r-hGH, is indicated for the treatment of children with growth failure due to inadequate secretion of endogenous growth hormone. intervention 2: Saizen® \[somatropin (rDNA origin) for injection\], a r-hGH, is indicated for the treatment of children with growth failure due to inadequate secretion of endogenous growth hormone.

Protocol document: