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Exploratory Study of Raised Serum Lactate as a Marker of Necrotizing Fasciitis

NCT01739959 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 53

Last updated 2012-12-04

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Summary

The investigators examined the hypothesis that serum lactate is raised in early necrotizing fasciitis to a much greater extent than in other differential diagnoses, such as severe cellulitis, and therefore provides a diagnostic indicator.

Conditions

  • Fasciitis, Necrotizing

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Health Service, United Kingdom

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • George Murphy, MRCS · Wexham Park Hospital

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2000-09-30
Primary Completion
2010-09-30
Completion
2010-09-30

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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