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Clinical Autonomic Disorders: A Training Protocol

NCT02154009 · Status: TERMINATED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 21

Last updated 2021-04-08

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Background:

\- The autonomic nervous system helps control things that happen automatically in the body, like blood pressure, heart rate, and digestion. When it doesn t work properly, it s called dysautonomia. Researchers want to learn more about dysautonomias and train doctors to learn how to better diagnose them.

Objectives:

* To allow people with autonomic disorders to be evaluated.
* To help fellows in the NIH Autonomic Disorders fellowship program see a variety of diseases in their training.

Eligibility:

* People age 18 and older with dysautonomia; children over age 2 if they might benefit
* Healthy adult volunteers

Design:

* Participants will have different procedures depending on their symptoms. They will have one or more visits. They will have some but not all of the tests below.
* Participants will have a medical history and physical exam. They may be tested for problems thinking. They may complete a symptom questionnaire. They may have their temperature and blood pressure taken.
* Participants may have an intravenous line placed. A needle will guide a thin plastic tube into an arm vein.
* Participants may have blood drawn several times. They may give a urine sample.
* Participants may have an electrocardiogram.
* How much blood a participant s heart is pumping and/or how much blood is flowing through their arm may be measured. The total amount of blood in their bloodstream may be measured.
* Participants may have their ability to sweat and/or sense of smell tested.
* Breathing, bowel sounds, and/or body functions may be monitored.
* Pupil size, response to environmental temperature changes, and/or breathing may be measured.
* Participants may have a bladder ultrasound.
* Small pieces of skin may be taken for study.

Conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)

    lead NIH

Principal Investigators

  • David S Goldstein, M.D. · National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)

Eligibility

Min Age
2 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-06-05
Primary Completion
2019-08-15
Completion
2021-04-07

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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