Prospective investigations into the role of hemostatic factors in the risk of variceal bleeding among children with chronic liver disease (thromboelastometry e.g) is still required. A better understanding of these factors would permit better risk stratification and targeted prophylaxis or therapy.
The investigators aim to start a prospective and observational study over a 2 years period. First, the investigators will identify all children suffering from cirrhosis irrespective of underlying etiology and/or portal hypertension coming into the pediatric hepatogastroenterology unit at Saint-Luc University Clinics. Any patient with a congenital or acquired thrombophilia/haemorrhagic disorder will be excluded. The investigators expect to include 20 to 30 children in the study. The investigators will meet the parents to give them explanations about this study and its implications. Then the investigators will get the free and informed consent about the participation to this clinical study. Parents are obviously free to refuse to take part in this clinical study and to retire from it at any moment.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
30
Clinical data as height, weight, mid upper arm circumference, jaundice, portal hypertension signs (ascites, splenomegaly, umbilical veinous circulation)
Laboratory data as CRP, hemogram, albumin, total and conjugated bilirubin, creatinin, urea, liver enzymes, tests of hemostasis.
Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc
Brussels, Belgium
To evaluate risk factors of spontaneous bleeding from oesophageal varices which are independant of liver functions
Time frame: over 2 year period
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