The purpose of this study is to investigate the local and systemic inflammatory response and haemostatic alterations in the lungs after lipopolysaccharide (LPS) instillation and to determine the feasibility of imaging techniques to quantify lung inflammation in an adapted human endotoxin instillation model. The investigators will also explore whether glucocorticoid treatment can blunt LPS effects.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
36
Two doses of 40mg dexamethasone (in 100 ml physiologic saline solution, respectively) will be administered intravenously prior to LPS instillation.
two doses of 100 ml physiologic saline solution will be administered intravenously prior to LPS instillation.
Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna
Vienna, State of Vienna, Austria
The effects of LPS instillation on a putative microvascular leak formation in a lung subsegment by radiologic imaging (magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography) will be quantified.
Time frame: 6/24 hours after LPS Instillation
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