Status:

UNKNOWN

Microbiota, Sarcopenia, and Hepatic Encephalopathy Change in Cirrhotic Patients Before and After Rehabilitation

Lead Sponsor:

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

Conditions:

Hepatic Encephalopathy

Eligibility:

All Genders

20+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Through this plan, it will provide many benefits to patients with liver cirrhosis complicated with sarcopenia and/or hepatic encephalopathy, their family members, and the government in Taiwan: 1. To ...

Detailed Description

Chronic liver disease is notorious as Taiwan's national disease and more than 4,000 patients died of liver cirrhosis each year in Taiwan. Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) manifests from minimal HE (MHE) to...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Patients with liver cirrhosis

Exclusion

  • unstable vital sign such as shock, coma or intubation status
  • Non-curative hepatocellular carcinoma (cannot receive operation, radiofrequency ablation, liver transplantation,etc
  • Un-curative malignancies
  • Poor-controlled diabetes mellitus (HbA1C≧8)
  • Active alcoholism (male alcohol ≧40g/day, or ≧140g/week; female ≧ 30g/day, or ≧70g/week
  • Psychiatric comorbidities
  • Neurologic comorbidities like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, stroke with neurological deficit
  • Unable to speak
  • Bed-ridden status
  • Post- Liver transplantation.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

December 1 2022

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

November 30 2025

Estimated Enrollment :

120 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT06040814

Start Date

December 1 2022

End Date

November 30 2025

Last Update

September 18 2023

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Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

Taoyuan District, Taiwan, 333