Measuring Auto-fluorescence of White Corpuscles for the Early Diagnosis and the Monitoring of Pneumonia in ICU (BIONAGA)

Nantes University Hospital (NUH)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pneumonia

Treatments: Other: Autofluorescence of white corpuscle

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02717767

RC15_0081

Details and patient eligibility

About

The diagnosis of pneumonia is challenging in Intensive Care Unit. The auto-fluorescence of white corpuscles is altered during pneumonia. In presence of bacterial growth on lung samples, the measure of autofluorescence of white corpuscles could help the clinicians to discriminate bacterial colonization from acute infection.

Enrollment: 69 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Hospitalization in intensive care units
• Mechanical ventilation
• Age > 18 years
• Collection of a lung sample for bacteriological analysis for the suspicion of a first episode of lung infection.

Exclusion criteria

• Refuse to participate