An observational study in Iron Deficiencies, Iron Deficiency Anemia and Cardiac Surgical Procedures, sponsored by Queen Fabiola Children's University Hospital. Recruiting at 1 site in Belgium. Open to participants aged Up to 16 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-02-28.
Sponsored by Queen Fabiola Children's University Hospital · Observational
The prevalence of iron deficiency in pediatric cardiac surgery patients is not very well known. Iron deficiency can lead to anemia, higher transfusion rates and possibly higher complication rates. In this retrospective study, the iron status of all patients undergoing pediatric cardiac surgery at our institution between January 2019 and december 2023 will be analyzed. Together with iron status, transfusion requirements as well as complications will be recorded. Iron status will be reported with descriptive statistics, patients with or without iron deficiency will be compared using non-parametric tests.
600 studies on the registry are indexed under Anemia, Iron-Deficiency; 95 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 300 is above the median of 200 across 118 observational studies indexed under Anemia, Iron-Deficiency.
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Compared within Anemia, Iron-Deficiency, this study's primary condition as ClinicalTrials.gg classifies it; the registry's first condition term is Iron Deficiencies. The counts are of registry records indexed under each term, refreshed daily. How we classify →
All patients who underwent pediatric cardiac surgery at our institution between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2023
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Exclusion Criteria:
All patients who underwent pediatric cardiac surgery in our institution between January 1, 2019 and december 31, 2023
Diagnostic Test: Iron status
Iron status will be based on preoperative ferritin levels: a ferritin \< 10 mcg/L will be considered as iron deficiency, ferritin levels \> 10 mcg/L will be considered normal
Prevalence of preoperative iron deficiency (%)
A preoperative ferritin \< 10 mcg/L will be considered as iron deficiency. Iron deficiency will be reported using descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation, median, interquartile range, %)
Time frame: 24 hours
Complications
The complication rate (%) will be reported. Complications are defined by the occurence of one or more of the following events: * transfusion rate (%) * volume of packed red cells transfused (mL/kg) * perioperative blood loss (mL/kg) * need for surgical re-exploration (%) * intensive care stay (days) * new renal insufficiency (%) * use of inotropes (%) * 28 day mortality (%) The frequency of any single item will also be reported (%)
Time frame: 28 days
Plan to share: No
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