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Efficacy of Vitamin C on liver disease With Multidrug-resistant Bacterial Infections.

Not Applicable
Conditions
Health Condition 1: K746- Other and unspecified cirrhosis ofliver
Registration Number
CTRI/2020/09/027527
Lead Sponsor
Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Open to Recruitment
Sex
Not specified
Target Recruitment
0
Inclusion Criteria

Critically ill cirrhotics with MDR infections

Exclusion Criteria

1.Patients with age less than 18 years

2.Known severe cardiopulmonary disease (structural or valvular heart disease, coronary artery disease, COPD)

3.Patients in DIC with platelets < 20,000 and INR > 4 or active bleeding

4.Limitations of care (defined as refusal of cardiovascular and respiratory support modes) including do not intubate (DNI) status

5.Current hospitalization > 15 days for patients with nosocomial acquisition of MDR at time of randomization

6.Known allergy or contraindication to vitamin C (including previously or currently diagnosed primary hyperoxaluria and/or oxalate nephropathy, or known/suspected ethylene glycol ingestion,

7.Known glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency)

8.Use of vitamin C at a dose of > 1 gram daily within the 24 hours preceding first episode of qualifying organ dysfunction during a given ED or ICU admission

9.Patients with HCC (beyond Milan) or extrahepatic malignancies

10.Patients with HVOTO or EHPVO

11.Pregnancy or active breastfeeding

12.Current participation in another interventional research study

13.Active or history of kidney stone

14.History of chronic kidney disease or intrinsic kidney disease

15.Patients already on maintenance hemodialysis prior to presentation

16.Patients with refractory septic shock or hypoxemia (Pa02/Fio2 ratio <100)

17.Extremely moribund patients with an expected life expectancy of less than 24 hours

18.Failure to provide informed consent

19.Patients with retroviral infection

20.Patients with acute on chronic liver failure (APASL definition)

21.Patients with urinary tract infection

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
AKI progression at Day 5Timepoint: Day 5
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
actate clearance in both groupsTimepoint: 12 and 24 Hours;Mortality in both groupsTimepoint: Day 28;Time to reversal of AKI in both groupsTimepoint: Day 14;Vasopressor, ventilator and days free of dialysis during ICU stayTimepoint: Day 28
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