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Terminated Not applicable Interventional

Anesthetic Effects in Mitochondrial Disease

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT01001585

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Summary. At the present, the investigators do not have the perfect anesthetic for mitochondrial patients. When possible, consideration should be given to the use of local anesthetics in small amounts. When a general anesthetic is necessary, they each carry significant risks and have been associated with poor outcomes. At present it is not possible to eliminate one group as less safe than others. What is clear is that these patients must be monitored more closely than other patients. The advent of the bispectral index (BIS) monitor may allow us to monitor their depth of anesthesia more closely and thus expose these patients only to the minimum amount of drug necessary to carry out the surgical procedure. Purpose. The investigators hypothesize that specific mitochondrial diseases, in particular those that decrease complex I function, make certain children hypersensitive to volatile anesthetics. These same patients may be at increased risk for adverse outcomes following general anesthesia. The specific aims of this application are: 1. Determine which molecular defects in mitochondrial function lead to alter sensitivity to the VA sevoflurane. 2. Establish the relative safety of sevoflurane in treatment of patients with mitochondrial disease. The investigators plan to monitor patients with mitochondrial disease using expanded measures of cardiovascular stability and measurements of brain electrical activity while slowly inducing general anesthesia. The investigators will use those measurements to limit the amount of anesthetic these patients receive in an attempt to minimize their risk. In addition, the investigators will correlate their sensitivity to the type of mitochondrial defect so that the investigators may be able to predict which patients are likely to have an increased sensitivity.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT01001585
Recruitment status
Terminated
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Lead sponsor
d sessler
Other
Enrollment
55 participants

Conditions and interventions

Interventions

Drug

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
12 Months to 16 Years
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Healthy volunteers not accepted

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Study timeline

Start date
Aug 31, 2006
Primary completion
Aug 31, 2011
Completion
Sep 30, 2011
Last update posted
Mar 8, 2015

2006 – 2011

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
Cleveland Clinic Cleveland Ohio 44195

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