Status:

COMPLETED

Nutritional Status and Enteral Absorption Capability After Brain Death

Lead Sponsor:

The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

Collaborating Sponsors:

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

Baylor College of Medicine

Conditions:

Brain Death

Eligibility:

All Genders

14-65 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

The investigators propose to assess 36 donors' nutritional status using accepted parameters (prealbumin, resting energy expenditure); to assess nutrient intestinal absorption through 13Curacil breath ...

Detailed Description

There are an estimated 98,000 people in need of organ transplants in the United States (OPTN). Only a fraction of the need is met with the organs that become available. Therefore interventions are nee...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Consented solid organ donor
  • Age \>14, \<65 years old
  • Donors may have received or are receiving parenteral or enteral nutrition

Exclusion

  • Known gastric or small bowel resections
  • Known malabsorptive disease of the gastrointestinal tract
  • Bariatric procedures, vagotomy or pyloroplasty
  • Known acute or chronic pancreatitis
  • Requiring an FiO2 \> 60%

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

February 1 2009

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

December 1 2013

Estimated Enrollment :

36 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00858390

Start Date

February 1 2009

End Date

December 1 2013

Last Update

June 26 2014

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Memorial Hermann Hospital

Houston, Texas, United States, 77030