Blue Light Therapy for Liver Surgery

Stopped early · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Acute Kidney Injury, Liver Injury, Inflammation

In brief

The investigators hypothesize that subjects undergoing liver resection and who are exposed preoperatively to high illuminance blue spectrum light will exhibit reduced organ injury, specifically liver dysfunction, than subjects exposed to standard ambient white fluorescent light.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02915081

Run by

University of Pittsburgh

People needed

6

Starts

2017-01-01

Expected to finish

2018-12-31

Last updated by the study team

2019-04-05

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• age greater than 17 years
• undergoing right or left hepatic lobectomy

You may not qualify if…

• presence of acute traumatic brain injury
• blindness
• immunosuppression or immunocompromised condition

Where it is running

• University of Pittsburgh Medical Center — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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