Gut Leakage' in Dengue
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- What is being studied
- This is an observational study: the protocol does not assign a study treatment.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Dengue, Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever, Intestinal Disease, Ascites. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Bangladesh
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Gut Leakage and Sonographic Abdominal Changes in Hospitalized Dengue Patients: an Observational Study
Overview
Dengue infections are imposing an increasing global burden of disease, particularly in tropical countries such as Bangladesh. The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified Dengue virus as a priority pathogen for the development of medical counter measures because of the high risk of it causing a Public Health Emergency of Intenational Concern (PHEIC). Warning signs for severe dengue, associated with mortality, include gastrointestinal features including abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhoea. Multiple alterations may occur in in the gastrointestinal tract that could lead to damaging of the gastrointestinal wall and gut leakage, the translocation of gut metabolites into the bloodstream. Study team hypothesize that gut leakage initiates inflammatory processes underlying the further development of severe dengue, including features associated with plasma leakage. This study aims to investigate intestinal barrier dysfunction (gut leakage) in dengue infection by detecting the translocation of gut-derived bacteria and their products (Lipopolysaccharides, LPS binding protein, sCD14, I-Fatty Acid Binding Protein) into the bloodstream. Study team will recruit hospitalized adult dengue patients (18 years and older) presenting with warning signs or severe disease in a tertiary care public hospital at Chattogram, Bangladesh. Circulating biomarkers indicative of gut permeability and microbial translocation will be measured to assess their presence and association with disease severity. Abdominal ultrasonography will be performed to characterize gastrointestinal alterations and determine their correlation with biochemical markers of gut leakage and clinical severity. In addition, study team will analyze the gut bacteriome from stool/ rectal swab of these patients to explore whether dengue infection induces compositional changes in intestinal microbiota and whether such alterations are linked to gut leakage or disease progression.
Primary outcome measures
- Level of gut leakage marker in blood and gastrointestinal findings in POCUS [Time frame: On enrollment, day of development of severity if non severe at enrolment, up to 28 days]
Secondary outcome measures (2)
- Document clinical events occurred in dengue patients [Time frame: Through study completion, an average of 28 days]
- Document clinical events occurred in dengue patients [Time frame: Day of enrolment/ 4th or day 7 of illness]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
Dengue participants
- Participant/ legally authorised representative willing and able to give informed consent for participation in the study.
- Male or Female, adults ≥18 years
- Diagnosed as a case of Dengue on the basis of clinical features and positive NS1 antigen and/or IgM dengue antibody
- Hospitalized in medicine or dengue ward in Chittagong Medical College Hospital.
- Enrolled within 24 hours of hospitalization.
Healthy participants
- Participant/ legally authorised representative willing and able to give informed consent for participation in the study.
- Male or Female, adults ≥18 years
- Clinically healthy with no acute or chronic illness
- Attendant of a dengue patient (not a patient)
Exclusion criteria
Dengue participants
- Unable to provide consent or participate in follow-up procedures
- Known chronic gastrointestinal (GI) disease affecting intestinal permeability (IBD, celiac disease), chronic liver disease, active chronic diarrhoea, short bowel loop syndrome, recent (<3 months) major GI surgery.
- Immunosuppression (for example chemotherapy, high-dose steroids), advanced chronic kidney disease, decompensated heart failure.
- Drugs that can alter the level of biomarkers in blood like metformin, statin, probiotics, steroid within last 48 hours of hospitalization.
- Pregnancy
Healthy participants
- Unable to provide consent
- Known chronic gastrointestinal (GI) disease affecting intestinal permeability (IBD, celiac disease), chronic liver disease, active chronic diarrhoea, short bowel loop syndrome, recent (<3 months) major GI surgery.
- Immunosuppression (for example chemotherapy, high-dose steroids), advanced chronic kidney disease, decompensated heart failure.
- Drugs that can alter the level of biomarkers in blood like metformin, statin, probiotics, steroid within last 48 hours of hospitalization.
- Pregnancy
- History of current or recent dengue or other arbo viral infection
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Observational model
- Cohort
Study locations
Bangladesh · 1 center
- Department of Medicine, Chittagong Medical College — Chittagong
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07602920 · VIR26001