CMV Intensive Care Units

Emilio Bouza

Status: Completed

Conditions: CMV Infection

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02324244

MICRO.HGUGM.2014-006

Details and patient eligibility

About

Prospectively assessment of CMV viremia by real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in a broad cohort of consecutive immunocompetent adults admitted to a major heart surgery intensive care unit (MHS-ICU) with the goal of determining the epidemiology, risk factors, and clinical significance of CMV infection.

Enrollment: 150 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Agreeing to participate in the study
• Age of at least 18 years
• Admission to the MHS-ICU for at least 72 hours

Exclusion criteria

• Inability to give informed consent
• Age younger than 18 years
• AIDS
• Pregnancy
• Organ or bone marrow transplant, receipt of immunosuppressive therapy including corticosteroids within 30 days, and cancer or hematologic malignancy treated with radiotherapy or chemotherapy

Trial design

150 participants in 1 patient group

immunocompetent patients underwent heart surgery