Nutritional Status and Enteral Absorption Capability After Brain Death

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Brain Death

In brief

The investigators propose to assess 36 donors' nutritional status using accepted parameters (prealbumin, resting energy expenditure); to assess nutrient intestinal absorption through 13Curacil breath tests; and to evaluate serum concentrations of IL-6 and TNFalpha to determine if continuing or initiating enteral feeding and nutritional supplementation is effective in restoring or maintaining nutritional parameters.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00858390

Run by

The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

People needed

36

Starts

2009-02-01

Expected to finish

2013-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2014-06-26

Who can join

Age: 14 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Consented solid organ donor
• Age >14, <65 years old
• Donors may have received or are receiving parenteral or enteral nutrition

You may not qualify if…

• 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%

Where it is running

• Memorial Hermann Hospital — Houston, Texas, United States

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