# Leech Therapy for Postherpetic Neuralgia

> **NCT01744522** · — · TERMINATED · sponsor: **Universität Duisburg-Essen** · enrollment: 6 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Postherpetic Neuralgia

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** Leech therapy

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT01744522
- **Lead sponsor:** Universität Duisburg-Essen
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** —
- **Study type:** OBSERVATIONAL
- **Status:** TERMINATED
- **Start date:** 2012-09
- **Primary completion:** 2014-04
- **Final completion:** 2014-04
- **Target enrollment:** 6 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** We were not able to recruit enough patients for this study within a given time frame.
- **Last updated:** 2014-04-11


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01744522

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT01744522, "Leech Therapy for Postherpetic Neuralgia". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-21 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT01744522. Licensed CC0.

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