Description Module
The Description Module contains narrative descriptions of the clinical trial, including a brief summary and detailed description. These descriptions provide important information about the study's purpose, methodology, and key details in language accessible to both researchers and the general public.
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Description Module
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2025-12-24 @ 9:32 PM
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2025-12-24 @ 9:32 PM
NCT ID:
NCT02777632
Brief Summary:
The purpose of this work was to study the incidence, types, risk factors and causative organisms of bacterial infections in HCV Egyptian patients following Liver Transplantation. Moreover, to identify the emerging resistant strains and their proper antimicrobial therapy
Detailed Description:
This prospective descriptive study has been done at Tropical Medicine department in the period between January 2014 to November 2015.
After the approval of the scientific and ethical committee of Ain Shams University Hospital, Patients with HCV positive end stage liver disease (ESLD) eligible for liver transplantation Ain Shams Center for Organ Transplant (ASCOT); Ain Shams University, (fulfilling the inclusion criteria) were included in the current study. Forty five patients were recruited and each one was followed-up during a period of 3 months following transplantation.
Included patients were divided into 2 groups:
Group 1 included patients who had a postoperative single episode of infection. Group 2 included those patients who had more than 1 episode of postoperative bacterial infection whom were further evaluated for the presence of emerging strains and/or antibiotic resistance.
Study:
NCT02777632
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT02777632