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Withdrawn Not applicable Interventional

Supraphysiologic Insulin to Improve Outcomes After Surgical Treatment of Unruptured Cerebral Aneurysms

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT00615381

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Official title

Clinical Trial of Euglycemia Maintenance With Supraphysiologic Insulin vs Conventional Intensive Insulin Therapy to Improve Outcomes (Neurologic, Neuropsychiatric, and Biomarkers) After Surgical Treatment of Unruptured Cerebral Aneurysms

Brief summary

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We hypothesize that in patients undergoing surgical treatment of unruptured intracranial aneurysms, the increase in blood sugar as a result of surgical stress is detrimental to outcome, as measured by blood levels of proteins associated with systemic inflammation and 7 day, 90 day, and 1 year postoperative neurologic and neuropsychiatric outcomes. Because insulin itself is an anti-inflammatory agent, we anticipate that normalizing blood sugar levels with insulin doses higher than normally produced by the body (i.e., "supraphysiologic" insulin doses) will have a greater benefit on these outcomes than equally normalizing blood sugar levels using normal insulin doses. Based on the results of this study, we will be able to determine if a more laborious strategy to normalize blood sugar levels (i.e., "supraphysiologic" insulin therapy) offers any additional benefits to normal insulin dosing strategies. In addition, we will obtain a robust assessment of postoperative neuropsychiatric and neurologic outcomes of surgically repaired unruptured intracranial aneurysms that will serve as the basis for future studies to decrease morbidity of these patients

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT00615381
Recruitment status
Withdrawn
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Lead sponsor
Northwestern University
Other
Enrollment
Not listed

Conditions and interventions

Interventions

Drug

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
18 Years and older
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Healthy volunteers not accepted

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Study timeline

Start date
Dec 31, 2008
Primary completion
Dec 31, 2009
Completion
Dec 31, 2009
Last update posted
Apr 22, 2015

2009 – 2010

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago Illinois 60611

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