Acute-On-Chronic Liver Failure
Conditions
Brief summary
Bowel colonization with anti-microbial resistant bacteria increases the risk of clinical infections. Infections caused by anti-microbial resistant bacteria have been associated with increased mortality, prolonged hospital stay, and increased costs. In addition, with the emergence of carbapenemase resistant bacterial species, there may not be any effective therapy for patients infected with such resistant species. Bowel colonization with anti-microbial resistant bacteria is an established risk factor for infections due to resistant bacteria, especially in transplanted patients and in intensive care unit. In this study we will study whether bowel colonisation in Acute on Chronic Liver Failure patient increases the risk of infection development in extra intestinal sites.
Interventions
OTHERno intervention
no intervention
Sponsors
Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, India
Study design
Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 60 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
\- Patients with Acute on Chronic Liver Failure admitted to the ward/High Dependency Unit/Intensive Care Unit.
Exclusion criteria
1. Patients on immunosuppressant medications or on daily steroids (excluding inhaled steroids) or \>2 weeks. 2. Patients with additional primary or acquired immunosuppressive states like hypogammaglobinemia, post-splenectomy, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection etc. 3. Neutropenia defined as absolute neutrophil count or total white blood cell count (WBC) \<500/mm3 4. Patients with extra-hepatic malignancy or on cytotoxic chemotherapy. 5. Patients with ileus, bowel hypomotility, severe constipation requiring laxatives/purgatives or enemas to evacuate. 6. Patients with fresh or altered blood in stools. 7. Patients with anatomical predisposition to infection/ bacterial seeing like prosthesis or foreign body. Patients with exfoliative skin conditions, significant mucosal ulcerations, or skin ulcers. Patients who have received \> 2 weeks of antibiotics before current admission. 8. Pregnant patients.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Fecal isolation rates of carbapenem resistant gram negative bacterial species (CR-GNB) among hospitalized ACLF patients | Day 28 |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Fecal isolation rates of Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) species among hospitalized ACLF patients | Day 28 | — |
| Fecal carriage rates of C. difficile among hospitalized ACLF patients. | Day 28 | — |
| Correlation of fecal carriage of resistant bacterial species with antibiotic exposure antibiotic type and duration | Day 28 | — |
| Concordance of bowel colonizing resistant bacterial species, with concurrent or subsequent infecting bacterial isolates from extra-intestinal sites | Day 28 | Stool culture sensitivity organism concordance will be checked with culture organism from other sites like blood, urine, ascitic, pleural, skin. |
| Fecal isolation rates of Extended Spectrum Beta-Lactamases (ESBL) producing gram negative bacterial species among hospitalized ACLF patients. | Day 28 | — |
| Timeline of bowel colonization with resistant bacterial species among hospitalized ACLF patients | Day 28 | — |
| Correlation of the fecal carriage rates of resistant bacterial species with etiology and severity of ACLF, including onset and resolution of organ failure (OF). | Day 28 | — |
| Correlation of fecal carriage resistant bacterial species with patient outcomes (admission duration or survival duration, short-term survival to discharge, readmission rates, and 30-day survival | Day 28 | — |
| Factors predisposing patients colonized with resistant bacterial species to develop extra-intestinal infectious events due to the same species | Day 28 | Factors will be assessed like previous hospitalisation, days of hospital stay, severity of disease, number and type and dosage of antibiotics usage in previous hospitalisation and current hospital stay, other symptom localisation of extraintestinal sites like lung infection, abdominal infection, urine infection, skin infection |
Countries
India
Outcome results
None listed