Status
Conditions
About
In many fields of medicine, except seizure disorders, blood biomarkers have captured an integrated part of diagnostic decision making, including copeptin, the surrogate marker of vasopressin release. There are strong arguments to hypothesize circulating copeptin is elevated in epilepsy, especially in generalized seizures such as fever seizures (FS), and that copeptin is predictive for complexity and relapse at least in FS. Although long-term morbidity and mortality are both low in FS, there is high anxiety among parents because of a lack of criterions to identify children at risk for relapse. Copeptin may fill this gap by adding important diagnostic and prognostic information. Eventually, less children may receive needlessly over years fever drugs or anti-epileptic drugs.
Full description
Background:
Copeptin is a surrogate marker of the pituitary-secreted nonapeptide arginine-vasopressin (AVP) and has gradually replaced AVP in several clinical studies largely due to its structural and methodological advantages. Copeptin is a marker of non-specific stress response, and has been suggested to have clinical implications in a variety of cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular conditions. However, up to now there are no data available on copeptin in seizure disorders, neither in adults nor in children.
Working hypotheses:
Specific aims:
Enrollment
Sex
Ages
Volunteers
Inclusion and exclusion criteria
Inclusion Criteria epilepsy-cohort:
Inclusion Criteria control-cohort:
Exclusion Criteria:
340 participants in 2 patient groups
Loading...
Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov
Clinical trials
Research sites
Resources
Legal