Tools for the Objective Clinical Assessment of Pediatric Spinal Deformity

Utah System of Higher Education (USHE)

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: TIS; Thoracic Insufficiency Syndrome

Treatments: Other: Digital Photography

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00585234

00014137

IRB# 00014137

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project seeks to develop a standardized technique for simultaneous capturing bi-planar images of patients against a standard background with a grid that can be used later for the quantitative determination of global balance and thoracic symmetry.

We hypothesize that patients who are successfully managed with surgery will demonstrate an improvement in global balance and thoracic symmetry that can be accurately measured. This measurement station will be specifically developed to provide a standardized, reproducible means to compare clinical assessments of surgical and non-surgical outcomes, and establish normative data for comparison. This standardized tool can be established at multiple centers for use in multicenter trials.

Sex: All

Ages: 1 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Male and female participants from 1- skeletal maturity

Exclusion criteria

• no specific disease related exclusion criteria

Trial design

0 participants in 1 patient group

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Description:

We intend to photograph male and female subjects from age 1 through skeletal maturity. Healthy children will be photographed to determine the normative characteristics of thoracic function using this technique. We will also enroll patients with thoracic pathology to determine how digital imaging can document thoracic dysfunction. There are no specific disease related exclusion criteria. Participation is voluntary.

Treatment:

Other: Digital Photography