Congenital Heart Defects and NIRS

Petja Fister, MD, PhD

Status: Completed

Conditions: Heart Defects, Congenital

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03411512

NIRS CHD1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Congenital Heart Defects and NIRS

Full description

Brain, kidney and intestinal tissue oxygenation in newborns with congenital heart defects assessed by near-infrared spectroscopy.

Enrollment: 65 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 day to 4 weeks old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Investigators included term newborns with critical structural CHD (of different types) who required surgical or transcatheter procedure in the first year of life. CHD were diagnosed by pediatric cardiologist by clinical examination and echocardiography.

Exclusion criteria

The exclusion criteria were pulmonary or neurological disease, perinatal asphyxia, acute illness, prematurity and congenital abnormality other than CHD.

Trial design

65 participants in 2 patient groups

CHD

Description:

Newborns with structural congenital heart defects. The exclusion criteria were pulmonary or neurological disease, perinatal asphyxia, acute illness, prematurity and congenital abnormality other than CHD.

Healthy controls

Description:

The control group comprised of healthy matched newborns without a diagnosed CHD.