Vascular function in patients with chronic vessel inflammatio
Completed
- Conditions
- Chronic periaortitis, also known as Ormond’s disease or retroperitoneal fibrosis is a rare disease of unknown etiology with pathological features of vascular inflammation and fibrosis.Circulatory System
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN92088047
- Lead Sponsor
- Inselspital University Hospital Bern (Switzerland)
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 50
Inclusion Criteria
Patients: patients with a diagnosis of chronic periaortitis that were followed at our outpatient clinic for Nephrology and Hypertension and patients with known arterial hypertension that were followed at our outpatient clinic for Nephrology and Hypertension, matched for age and sex in a 1:1 fashion.
Healthy volunteers: healthy volunteers from the community and clinic staff, matched 1:1 for age and sex.
Exclusion Criteria
Patients with atrial fibrillation and other cardiac arrhythmias that interfered with study measurements
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method