NCT06789640

Impact of Vitamin C Supplementation on Hospital Outcomes in Children Undergoing Corrective Heart Surgery for Congenital Heart Diseases

Impact of Vitamin C Supplementation on the Hospital Outcomes in Children Undergoing Corrective Heart Surgery for Congenital Heart Diseases

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Cairo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Vitamin C will be given before admission in the immediate preoperative preceding 7 days (the dose 30 -45 mg per day ) in oral drops preparations Inflammatory markers including CRP , TLC ,PNI , GPS NLR will be checked on admission and on discharge and compared between cases and controls Hospital length stay will also be compared between the two groups

Conditions

• Congenital Heart Disease (CHD)

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Vitamin C	Vitamin C will be given before admission in the immediate preoperative preceding 7 days (the dose 30 -45 mg per day ) in oral drops preparations Inflammatory markers including CRP , TLC ,PNI , GPS NLR will be checked on admission and on discharge and compared between cases and controls Hospital length stay will also be compared between the two groups
OTHER	Placebo	Placebo will be given before admission in the immediate preoperative preceding 7 days (the dose 30 -45 mg per day ) in oral drops preparations Inflammatory markers including CRP , TLC ,PNI , GPS NLR will be checked on admission and on discharge and compared between cases and controls

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-02-19
• Primary completion: 2025-04-19
• Completion: 2025-04-19
• First posted: 2025-01-23
• Last updated: 2025-02-17