Iron Deficiency in Pediatric Heart Surgery

Queen Fabiola Children's University Hospital

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Iron Deficiency Anemia; Iron Deficiencies; Congenital Heart Disease in Children; Cardiac Surgical Procedures

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Iron status

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06276608

PED_Fe_def

Details and patient eligibility

About

The prevalence of iron deficiency in pediatric cardiac surgery patients is not very well known. Iron deficiency can lead to anemia, higher transfusion rates and possibly higher complication rates. In this retrospective study, the iron status of all patients undergoing pediatric cardiac surgery at our institution between January 2019 and december 2023 will be analyzed. Together with iron status, transfusion requirements as well as complications will be recorded. Iron status will be reported with descriptive statistics, patients with or without iron deficiency will be compared using non-parametric tests.

Enrollment: 300 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 16 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients who underwent pediatric cardiac surgery at our institution between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2023

Exclusion criteria

• Incomplete medical charts
• Patients who did not consent to the use of their medical data

Trial design

300 participants in 1 patient group

Pediatric cardiac surgery patients

Description:

All patients who underwent pediatric cardiac surgery in our institution between January 1, 2019 and december 31, 2023

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Iron status