Cognitive Dysfunction, Fatigue, Graft Vs Host Disease
Conditions
Brief summary
Patients undergoing allogenic stem cell transplantation are regularly followed up in the outpatient clinic at Karolinska University Hospital. Here, patients are offered participation the fatigue study measuring both fatigue and cognitive impairment systematically by international standard. Meanwhile liquor samples and advanced PET imaging techniques are available for these patients as part of a research project allowing extensive immunological and radio-morphological studies.
Interventions
Trial subjects will undergo two advanced PET investigations
Sponsors
Study design
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
PET images available retrospectively
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| To investigate the role of inflammation on synaptic density and glial cell activation as the cause of mental fatigue and cognitive dysfunction in survivors after alloSCT. | 2024-2027 | Analysis of PET imaging (both descriptive and radiokinetical) in combination with biological markers for neuroinflammation. |
Countries
Sweden