Status:

ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION

Improving Care for Children With Congenital Heart Disease.

Lead Sponsor:

Lund University Hospital

Collaborating Sponsors:

Region Jönköping County

Göteborg University

Conditions:

Heart Disease Congenital

Ventricular Septal Defect

Eligibility:

All Genders

Up to 17 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Establish a cardiovascular biomarker profile to help screening for congenital heart disease in infants and children as well as use non-invasive cardiac imaging in combination with such profiling to be...

Detailed Description

Analysing circulating cardiovascular biomarkers using blood samples should improve identification of congenital heart disease in newborns, in particular for those needing future cardiac interventions....

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • obtained written informed consent prior to enrolment
  • resident within participating healthcare regions in Sweden during study
  • age 0-17 years at enrolment
  • Controls: No evidence of congenital heart disease and no history of cardiovascular disease
  • Cases: congenital heart lesions prior to open heart surgery or cardiac catheter intervention with grouping into i.e. ventricular septal defects and atrial septal defects, complex and critical cases requiring infant surgery or patency of the arterial duct to maintain the circulation postnatally.

Exclusion

  • inability to obtain written informed consent prior to study enrolment and/or comply with study protocol
  • non-resident in participating healthcare regions of Sweden during study
  • age more than 17 years at enrolment
  • presence of congenital heart disease where the lesion has already been treated by open heart surgery or cardiac catheter intervention
  • participation in other research study with conflicting aims / interests

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

February 17 2020

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

October 1 2025

Estimated Enrollment :

98 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04667455

Start Date

February 17 2020

End Date

October 1 2025

Last Update

March 4 2025

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Children's Heart Centre at Lund's University Hospital

Lund, Skåne County, Sweden, 221 85