NCT01739959

Exploratory Study of Raised Serum Lactate as a Marker of Necrotizing Fasciitis

Raised Serum Lactate as a Marker of Necrotizing Fasciitis; a Consecutive Prospective Review.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 53 (actual)
• Sponsor: National Health Service, United Kingdom · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The investigators examined the hypothesis that serum lactate is raised in early necrotizing fasciitis to a much greater extent than in other differential diagnoses, such as severe cellulitis, and therefore provides a diagnostic indicator.

Detailed description

A prospective comparison of serum lactate levels at referral to the Plastic Surgery team to the 'gold standard' test of histology at initial surgical debridement, looking at 53 consecutive patients referred with suspected necrotizing fasciitis to a single surgeon at one institution between 2000 and 2010.

Conditions

• Fasciitis, Necrotizing

Timeline

• Start date: 2000-09-01
• Primary completion: 2010-09-01
• Completion: 2010-09-01
• First posted: 2012-12-04
• Last updated: 2012-12-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom