NCT02309216

Whole-Body MRI in Suspected Victims of Abusive Head Trauma

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 8 (actual)
• Sponsor: The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose: to pilot whole-body MRI scanning in infants who are already getting brain MRI for suspected child abuse Research design: prospective, blinded reading of Whole-Body MRI (WB-MRI) images during the routine care of the hospitalized infant with comparison to routine radiographic skeletal survey images Procedures to be used: whole-body MRI images Risks and potential benefits: no additional risk (the infant will be receiving and MRI of their brain as part of routine care, the additional images will be obtained at the same time without additional sedation); benefits to the infant include the identification of injuries which would have otherwise been missed by routine care importance of knowledge that may reasonably be expected to result: results from this study will potentially influence the use of radiographic skeletal survey and decrease the radiation exposure to infants being evaluated for suspected child abuse.

Conditions

• Shaken Baby Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Whol-Body MRI scan

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-11-01
• Primary completion: 2016-01-01
• Completion: 2016-01-01
• First posted: 2014-12-05
• Last updated: 2017-05-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States