Status:
COMPLETED
Nutritional Status and Enteral Absorption Capability After Brain Death
Lead Sponsor:
The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Collaborating Sponsors:
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Baylor College of Medicine
Conditions:
Brain Death
Eligibility:
All Genders
14-65 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The investigators propose to assess 36 donors' nutritional status using accepted parameters (prealbumin, resting energy expenditure); to assess nutrient intestinal absorption through 13Curacil breath ...
Detailed Description
There are an estimated 98,000 people in need of organ transplants in the United States (OPTN). Only a fraction of the need is met with the organs that become available. Therefore interventions are nee...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Consented solid organ donor
- Age \>14, \<65 years old
- Donors may have received or are receiving parenteral or enteral nutrition
Exclusion
- Known gastric or small bowel resections
- Known malabsorptive disease of the gastrointestinal tract
- Bariatric procedures, vagotomy or pyloroplasty
- Known acute or chronic pancreatitis
- Requiring an FiO2 \> 60%
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
February 1 2009
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
December 1 2013
Estimated Enrollment :
36 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00858390
Start Date
February 1 2009
End Date
December 1 2013
Last Update
June 26 2014
Active Locations (1)
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Memorial Hermann Hospital
Houston, Texas, United States, 77030