How change in blood ferritin level plays a role in children hospitalised with acute fever.
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- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: R778- Other specified abnormalities of plasma proteins
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2021/05/033404
- Lead Sponsor
- Maulana Azad Medical College and associated Lok Nayak Hospital
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
Children between 1 month to 12 years hospitalised with acute febrile illness (acute febrile illness will be defined in this study as a patient with fever of 38°C or higher at presentation to hospital or having history of fever for less than 2 weeks)
Exclusion Criteria
1.Any associated pathology with decreased ferritin levels e.g. anaemia (hemoglobin < 10gm/dL) or increased ferritin levels like thalassemia, Haemophilia, sickle cell diseases etc.
2.Any known underlying chronic diseases e.g. malignancy, rheumatological diseases, chronic organ diseases like chronic kidney diseases, chronic liver diseases etc as these could affect the prognosis and /or ferritin levels per se.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Association of serum ferritin levels in children hospitalized with acute febrile illness with :- <br/ ><br>) When patient is needed transferr to PICU or <br/ ><br>b) When patient expire <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br>Timepoint: At baseline and on 3rd day <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Association of serum ferritin levels in children hospitalized with acute febrile illness with :- <br/ ><br>patient goes into shock, experiences any organ failure or when the fever subsides and at discharge.Timepoint: in a week