Anaesthesia and Apoptosis

Assiut University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Apoptosis

Treatments: Other: apoptosis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04431505

13700420

Details and patient eligibility

About

Anesthetics cause widespread apoptosis in the developing brain, resulting in neurocognitive abnormalities. However, it is unknown whether anesthesia-induced neurotoxicity occurs in humans because there is currently no modality to assess for neuronal apoptosis in vivo

Enrollment: 20 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 to 10 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• congenital heart corrective surgery

Exclusion criteria

• none