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UnknownNCT03559894

Severe and Transient Hypoxemia During Selective Intra-arterial Chemotherapy for Retinoblastoma in Children: Evaluation of the Right-sided Heart Function.

Status
Unknown
Phase
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
50 (estimated)
Sponsor
Christian Kern · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
6 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

Children having selective ophthalmic artery chemotherapy for retinoblastoma under general anaesthesia may experience troubles during the procedure. The troubles are transient, may be severe and include hypoxemia, hypotension and bradycardia. All children having such trouble always fully recovered without any sequelae or prolonged length of stay. The investigators suspect that these phenomenons are caused by transient pulmonary hypertension.The objective is to see whether transient pulmonary hypertension and right-sided heart failure is present during theses phenomenon by trans-thoracic echocardiography.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
DIAGNOSTIC_TESTTrans-thoracic echocardiographyTrans-thoracic echocardiography

Timeline

Start date
2018-01-01
Primary completion
2019-05-31
Completion
2019-05-31
First posted
2018-06-18
Last updated
2018-06-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03559894. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.