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Efficacy and Safety of Topical Timolol Maleate 0.5% Solution for Superficial Infantile Hemangioma in Early Proliferative Phase. A Randomized Clinical Trial

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What is being tested

Timolol

+ Placebo

Drug
Who is being recruted

Hemangioma+1

+ Neoplasms

+ Neoplasms by Histologic Type

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How is the trial designed

Treatment Study

Placebo-ControlledPhase 2
Interventional
Study Start: March 2014
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Summary

Principal SponsorFundació Institut de Recerca de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
Last updated: January 27, 2026
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Study start date: March 1, 2014

Actual date on which the first participant was enrolled.

A multicentric, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase II clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of 0.5% timolol maleate solution for the early treatment of infantile hemangioma. Patients with less of 60 days of life with focal or segmental hemangiomas, superficial, mixed or abortive will be treated with topical timolol 0.5% twice a day for 24 weeks. Changes in lesion size, color and thickness will be evaluated from photographs taken at 2,4,8,12,24 and 36 weeks. Vital signs and side effects will be recorded at each visit. Response to treatment will be evaluated by a blinded investigator in a semiquantitative scale (complete resolution, improve, stabilization, worsening).

Official TitleEfficacy and Safety of Topical Timolol Maleate 0.5% Solution for Superficial Infantile Hemangioma in Early Proliferative Phase. A Randomized Clinical Trial
NCT02731287
Principal SponsorFundació Institut de Recerca de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
Last updated: January 27, 2026
Sourced from a government-validated database.Claim as a partner

Protocol

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.
Design Details

70 patients to be enrolled

Total number of participants that the clinical trial aims to recruit.

Treatment Study

These studies test new ways to treat a disease, condition, or health issue. The goal is to see if a new drug, therapy, or approach works better or has fewer side effects than existing options.



Eligibility

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria: person's general health condition or prior treatments.
Conditions
Criteria

Any sex

Biological sex of participants that are eligible to enroll.

Range of ages for which participants are eligible to join.

Healthy volunteers not allowed

If individuals who are healthy and do not have the condition being studied can participate.

Conditions

Pathology

HemangiomaNeoplasmsNeoplasms by Histologic TypeNeoplasms, Vascular Tissue

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria: * Written informed consent for study participation and the use of the patient's photographs from the patient's parent(s) or guardian(s), * The patient is between 10 and 60 days of age at the time of enrollment, * The patient should have: * at least one focal or segmental hemangioma, mixed or superficial, present anywhere on the body of at least 0.3 cm of minimum diameter and not greater of 5 cm. * abortive or minimal growth hemangioma * Infantile hemangioma precursors Exclusion Criteria: * Patients \> 60 days of age * Complicated hemangiomas (life-threatening, function-threatening, or ulcerated) * Children who have previously received systemic, intra-lesional or topical corticosteroids, imiquimod, vincristine, alpha-interferon, propranolol or other beta blockers, PDL laser. * Patients with PHACES, LUMBAR, SACRAL or PELVIS syndrome. * Internal involvement hemangiomas (liver, GI tract, larynx) * Children with a personal history of asthma or cardiac conditions that may predispose to heart block. * Children with congenital birth defects * Children with Cancer (leukemia, sarcoma, neuroblastoma, retinoblastoma) * Children with a history of hypersensitivity to beta blockers or excipients.

Study Plan

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Treatment Groups
Study Objectives

2 intervention groups are designated in this study

50% chance of being blinded to the placebo group

Treatment Groups

Group I

Experimental
Timolol maleate 0.5% topical solution; 50% of the patients treated (randomized)

Group II

Placebo
Saline topical solution; 50% of the patients treated (randomized)

Study Objectives

Primary Objectives

Secondary Objectives

Study Centers

These are the hospitals, clinics, or research facilities where the trial is being conducted. You can find the location closest to you and its status.

This study has 2 locations

Suspended

Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

Barcelona, SpainOpen Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Google Maps
Suspended

Hospital Virgen del Rocío

Seville, Spain
Completed2 Study Centers