Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT01319136
Improved Analysis Methods for Infusion Tests
Novel Infusion Method for Describing CSF Dynamics
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 48 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Umeå University · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- —
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
Objective: Patients with Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus are improved with shunt surgery. To increase the accuracy of the diagnosis, supplementary tests that characterize the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) dynamics are used. The infusion test is one of these, used for shunt surgery selection and postoperative evaluation of shunt function. Forty-eight patients that had a preoperative investigation because of communicating hydrocephalus at the university hospitals in Umeå and Uppsala, Sweden, participated in the study. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a new method, with a new infusion protocol and new analysis methods, and compare it to the current method.
Conditions
Timeline
- Start date
- 2009-03-01
- Primary completion
- 2010-08-01
- Completion
- 2010-08-01
- First posted
- 2011-03-21
- Last updated
- 2011-03-21
Locations
2 sites across 1 country: Sweden
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01319136. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.