The Influence of Corticosteroid Treatment on Heart Function

Hillel Yaffe Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Myocardial Function

Treatments: Other: Transthoracic Echocardiogram

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02232048

0061-14-HYMC

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients hospitalized in internal medicine departments are given corticosteroid treatment according clinical indications. Patients receive treatment at different dosage levels and in different preparations according to clinical indications. This study will investigate how corticosteroids effect the heart and specifically, longitudinal strain.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Stable patients able to undergo Transthoracic Echocardiogram
• Patients beginning treatment with corticosteroids

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnant
• Patients recently or chronically treated with corticosteroids

Trial design

100 participants in 1 patient group

Corticosteroid Treatment

Description:

Patients in the internal medicine department who are being treated with corticosteroids will undergo Transthoracic Echocardiogram to determine change in heart function.

Treatment:

Other: Transthoracic Echocardiogram