Physiological Response of Cortisol to Cardiac Catheterization

Completed

Conditions studied: Adrenal Insufficiency

In brief

Cortisol is essential for survival. The importance of cortisol response is most apparent in patients with partial or complete deficiency of glucocorticoids during stressful events such as illness or surgery.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01822847

Run by

Creighton University

People needed

24

Starts

2013-03-01

Expected to finish

2014-04-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-02-26

Who can join

Age: 20 and older, up to 90. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients undergoing elective cardiac catheterization, who are willing and able to give consent.

You may not qualify if…

• • Patients with .primary or secondary adrenal insufficiency.
• Patients taking steroids in the doses equivalent of at least 5 mg of prednisone daily for more than 3 weeks in the previous year.
• Patients undergoing cardiac catheterization in the setting of acute coronary syndrome, eg. STEMI, NSTEMI and unstable angina.
• Patients with low albumin level (<3.5 g/dL)

Where it is running

• Creighton University — Omaha, Nebraska, United States

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