NCT00985010

Manganese in Women With Encephalopathy

Manganese, Possible Factor of Higher Mortality in Women With Encephalopathy

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 9 (actual)
• Sponsor: Materno-Perinatal Hospital of the State of Mexico · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Objective: Report manganese serum levels and mortality in encephalopathic patients. Patients and participants: Consecutive patients aged \> 18 years, with hepatic encephalopathy and informed consent signed by their families. Interventions: Patients' clinical characteristics as well as biochemical tests of renal function, hemoglobin, glucose and albumin levels were obtained as well as a blood sample to analyze manganese levels with a graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometer. Hypothesis: There is a difference in the manganese levels between male and female patients.

Conditions

• Hepatic Encephalopathy

Timeline

• Start date: 2003-01-01
• Primary completion: 2005-01-01
• Completion: 2005-01-01
• First posted: 2009-09-25
• Last updated: 2016-11-08
• Results posted: 2009-09-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Mexico