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Evolution and Clinical Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Liver Transplantation

NCT02917382 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 70

Last updated 2017-04-11

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Summary

Liver transplantation (LTx) is the standard treatment used in the final stage of chronic or acute liver failure. The success for the LT depends on many factors. One of the factors related to morbidity and mortality of these patients is malnutrition. Patients on the waiting list for LTx are increased risk of malnutrition and metabolic disorders that may be associated with decreased functional capacity, change in resting energy expenditure cardiac autonomic dysfunction. These conditions may influence the results both before and after transplantation, as the clinical outcome and complications present in the postoperative period. Therefore, this study aims to characterize and relate nutritional status, metabolic, functional and clinical outcomes in the recent postoperative patients undergoing liver transplantation. It is an observational, prospective study based on four evaluations: the first will be conducted while the patient is awaiting transplantation; and after insertion of the graft, patients will be evaluated between the 1nd and 3th postoperative day, between 5 and 7 days and at discharge from hospital.

In the late post-transplant, there is the action of immunosuppressive drugs, largely responsible for increased survival, but also on the other hand, are responsible for important nutritional and metabolic disorders. Metabolic complications such as hyperkalemia, hypertension, diabetes mellitus and overweight have been described. Thus, due to the high incidence of these complications, alternative options, such as lowering the dose of immunosuppressive drugs, have been fully explored, particularly as regards association with the viability of the graft. However, few studies have evaluated whether there is change in the incidence of metabolic disorders, cited above, in relation to the different doses of immunosuppressive drugs. Furthermore these metabolic complications will be evaluated in the late post-transplant period.

Conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Federal University of Minas Gerais

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-07-31
Primary Completion
2017-10-31
Completion
2017-11-30

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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