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Congenital Heart Defects and NIRS

Completed
Conditions
Heart Defects, Congenital
Registration Number
NCT03411512
Lead Sponsor
Petja Fister, MD, PhD
Brief Summary

Congenital Heart Defects and NIRS

Detailed Description

Brain, kidney and intestinal tissue oxygenation in newborns with congenital heart defects assessed by near-infrared spectroscopy.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
65
Inclusion Criteria

Investigators included term newborns with critical structural CHD (of different types) who required surgical or transcatheter procedure in the first year of life. CHD were diagnosed by pediatric cardiologist by clinical examination and echocardiography.

Exclusion Criteria

The exclusion criteria were pulmonary or neurological disease, perinatal asphyxia, acute illness, prematurity and congenital abnormality other than CHD.

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
rSO2RSO2 values were obtained after 30 minute calm down period to enable stable recordings on each channel by averaging five minutes recorded values.

regional tissue oxygenation assessed by NIRS

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University Medical Centre Ljubljana

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Ljubljana, Slovenia

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