Status:

COMPLETED

Hepcidine and Iron Deficiency in Critically Ill Patients

Lead Sponsor:

University Hospital, Montpellier

Conditions:

Anemia

Critical Illness

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Anaemia is very frequent among critically ill patients, concerning more than 60 % of them at admission and more than 80% at intensive care unit discharge. Iron deficiency is also frequent at admission...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Hospitalized man/woman in reanimation unit for at least 5 days.
  • Age ≥ 18 years old.
  • Patient having an anaemia such as defined by the WHO (World Health Organization) (for man: Hemoglobin \< 13 g/dl, for woman: Hemoglobin \< 12 g/dl).
  • Signed inform consent by the patient or a close person.
  • Subject affiliated to a national health insurance

Exclusion

  • Known iron metabolism pathology (such as primitive or secondary hemochromatosis, …).
  • Chronic anaemia (Hemoglobin ≤ 10 g/dl for more than 3 months).
  • Current chemotherapy.
  • Patient having an organ transplant
  • Expected survival \< 28 days post Intensive Care Unit discharge.
  • Pregnancy
  • Patient deprived of freedom, by judicial or administrative order.
  • Major protected by the law.
  • Contra-indication to the injectable iron treatment (allergy to ferric carboxymaltose, infection derivates (bacteriamy \< 48 hours) untreated).
  • Non speaking French patient, or patient unable to answer a questionnaire because of any neurologic disorder (stroke, brain trauma….).

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

August 1 2014

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

September 1 2017

Estimated Enrollment :

408 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT02276690

Start Date

August 1 2014

End Date

September 1 2017

Last Update

October 6 2017

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Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care, Angers University Hospital, 4 rue larrey

Angers, France, 49000