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NCT Number: NCT02324244

CMV Intensive Care Units

Prospectively assessment of CMV viremia by real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in a broad cohort of consecutive immunocompetent adults admitted to a major heart surgery intensive care unit (MHS-ICU) with the goal of determining the epidemiology, risk factors, and clinical significance of CMV infection.

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Key information

Conditions

CMV Infection Cytomegalovirus Infections DNA Virus Infections Herpesviridae Infections Infections Virus Diseases

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Servicio de Microbiologia y Enfermedades Infecciosas

Madrid, 28007, Spain

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Agreeing to participate in the study
  • Age of at least 18 years
  • Admission to the MHS-ICU for at least 72 hours

Exclusion criteria

  • Inability to give informed consent
  • Age younger than 18 years
  • AIDS
  • Pregnancy
  • Organ or bone marrow transplant, receipt of immunosuppressive therapy including corticosteroids within 30 days, and cancer or hematologic malignancy treated with radiotherapy or chemotherapy

Treatment and study plan

Primary outcomes

  1. incidence number of participants with a positive CMV positive result

    Time frame: month 8

Secondary outcomes

  1. risk factors for CMV reactivation

    Time frame: month 8

  2. mortality by day 30

    Time frame: month 8

    composite endpoint. hospitalization or death by day 30

  3. prolonged hospitalization . More than 30 days

    Time frame: month 8

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Emilio Bouza

Other

Registry information

Official study title

A Prospective Monitoring Study of Cytomegalovirus Infection in Immunocompetent Critical Heart Surgery Patients

Important dates

Study start
2012
Primary completion
2013
Study completion
2013
First posted
Dec 24, 2014
Registry last updated
Dec 24, 2014

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