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Platelets as Regulators of Inflammation in Cardiac Surgery

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT02568410

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Official title

Platelets as Regulators of Inflammation and Tissue Injury After Cardiac Surgery

Brief summary

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Platelets are increasingly recognized as a potent and ubiquitously present source of inflammatory activation. Importantly, antiplatelet therapy has been shown to significantly reduce major adverse events such as renal injury in cardiac surgery patients. However, in current practice, concerns of excessive bleeding-not platelet activation and thrombosis-shape clinical decisions. The investigators have recently seen, that a significant drop in platelet numbers following cardiac surgery is associated with increased mortality and risk of acute kidney injury. The investigators hypothesize that such thrombocytopenia is a result of excessive perioperative platelet activation and resultant release of inflammatory and tissue injurious signals by activated platelets. Platelet activation will be characterized during and after cardiac surgery and examine its correlation with inflammatory responses and perioperative end-organ injury.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT02568410
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Observational
Phase
Not listed
Lead sponsor
Duke University
Other
Enrollment
99 participants

Conditions and interventions

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
Oct 2015 (Type not available)
Primary completion
May 2019 (Actual)
Completion
May 2019 (Actual)
Last update posted
May 23, 2019

2015 – 2019

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
Duke University Medical Center Durham North Carolina 27710 —

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