Manganese in Women With Encephalopathy

Materno-Perinatal Hospital of the State of Mexico

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Hepatic Encephalopathy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00985010

HGDrDFF-Mn2008

Details and patient eligibility

About

Objective:

Report manganese serum levels and mortality in encephalopathic patients.

Patients and participants:

Consecutive patients aged > 18 years, with hepatic encephalopathy and informed consent signed by their families.

Interventions:

Patients' clinical characteristics as well as biochemical tests of renal function, hemoglobin, glucose and albumin levels were obtained as well as a blood sample to analyze manganese levels with a graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometer.

Hypothesis:

There is a difference in the manganese levels between male and female patients.

Enrollment: 9 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Consecutive patients aged > 18 years
• With hepatic encephalopathy
• Informed consent signed by their families

Exclusion criteria

• Portal bypass surgery
• Cancer of any localization
• Known malignancy and other severe diseases which shorten life expectancy < 6 months
• Psychiatric illness