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Use of measuring intestinal blood flow velocities to detect gut disturbances in premature growth retarded babies with and without abnormal antenatal umbilical blood flows

ROLE OF POSTNATAL SUPERIOR MESENTRIC ARTERY DOPPLER IN PREDICTING FEED INTOLERANCE AND NEC IN PRETERM SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE BABIES WITH AND WITHOUT ANTENATAL ABSENT/REVERSED UMBILICAL ARTERY END DIASTOLIC FLOW

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
CTRI
Registry ID
CTRI/2011/09/002017
Enrollment
50
Registered
2011-09-23
Start date
Unknown
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2021-11-24

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Conditions

Health Condition 1: null- premature growth retarded babies

Interventions

None listed

Sponsors

Kanya Mukhopadhyay
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: babies who are less than 36 weeks and growth retarded with abnormal antenatal umbilical flow will be one group. equal number of growth retarded gestation matched babies with normal antenatal doppler will form controls

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: any baby with severe birth asphyxia, major malformation, shock at time of enrolment, hemodynamically significant heart disease, gut malformation, lack of antenatal doppler

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
incidence of feed intolerance and or necrotizing enterocolitisTimepoint: till they have reached 150ml/kg/day for 3 days or total of 7 days which ever is earlier

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
superior mesenteric artery doppler velocitiesTimepoint: day 1 and day 5

Countries

India

Contacts

Public Contactdeepak louis

PGIMER

kanyapupul@yahoo.com9914208317

Outcome results

None listed

Source: CTRI (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026