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NCT04735757

Effects of COVID-19 Infection and Critical Illness on Diaphragm Tissue Characteristics and Movement, Visualized With MRI

Status unknown Last updated 18 March 2021
What this trial tests

trial testing Contrast-enhanced MRI in Diaphragm Disease in 40 participants. Status unknown.

Timeline
3 February 2021
Primary endpoint
19 January 2023
19 January 2023

Quick facts

Lead sponsorAmsterdam UMC, location VUmc
StatusStatus unknown
Study typeOBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment40
Start date3 February 2021
Primary completion19 January 2023
Estimated completion19 January 2023
Sites1 location across Netherlands

Drugs / interventions tested

Conditions studied

Sponsor

Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc — full company profile →

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with Diaphragm Disease or Covid19. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

COVID-19-infection has a large impact on the respiratory system and possibly on the diaphragm, the main respiratory muscle. In ICU-patients, diaphragm weakness is associated with prolonged ICU-stay, difficult weaning and increased mortality. Our research group recently found evidence for fibrosis and expression of genes involved in fibrosis as well as viral infiltration of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in diaphragm biopsies from COVID-19 ICU patients. This finding suggests a unique manifestation of diaphragm injury in COVID-19 patients after mechanical ventilation. However, it remains unclear what the exact nature and location of diaphragm injury is. Additionally, it is largely unknown whether this injury affects the movement of the diaphragm, but this might have important clinical implications. Therefore, we aim at visualizing the tissue characteristics and movement of the diaphragm in COVID-19 patients who recently received long-term mechanical ventilation, other ICU patients and healthy controls, using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). MRI of the diaphragm was already shown feasible in previous research from our group (article currently under review). New insights in the characteristics of diaphragm weakness and injury in COVID-19 patients and control ICU-patients will contribute to strategies to prevent it and monitor the diaphragm of patients under mechanical ventilation, which can contribute to better patient outcomes.

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