Nutritional Failure in Infants With Single Ventricle Congenital Heart Disease

Completed

Conditions studied: Congenital Heart Disease, Nutritional Failure

In brief

The purpose of this study is to understand the causes of growth failure and to define biochemical markers of nutritional failure in patients with single ventricle Congenital Heart Disease (CHD).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01821287

Run by

Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati

People needed

75

Starts

2010-09-01

Expected to finish

2013-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2014-04-14

Who can join

Age: any, up to 1. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• CHD infants: Infants with a single ventricle CHD admitted to CCHMC for neonatal medical management or surgical palliation
• Normal controls: Healthy newborns (full-term infants with no known medical problems) recruited from CCHMC and private practices.

You may not qualify if…

• CHD infants: 1) Premature birth (<36 weeks), 2) Chromosomal abnormalities, 3) Major gastrointestinal, pulmonary or neurologic anomalies
• Normal controls: 1) Premature birth (<36 weeks), 2) Chromosomal abnormalities, 3) Major gastrointestinal, pulmonary or neurologic anomalies., 4) Cardiovascular anomalies

Where it is running

• Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center — Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

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