Transient ECG Changes in Patients With Acute Biliary Disease

NCT ID: NCT01706068

Last Updated: 2012-10-15

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Total Enrollment: 100 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2012-11-30
• Study Completion Date: 2014-05-31

Brief Summary

Background:

The importance of ischemic ECG changes including St segment elevation, ST segment depression or T wave inversion that indicate myocardial ischemia are well established and require appropriate investigation and treatment.

However, there is an abundance of clinical situation, with apparently ischemic ECG change not indicate traditionally coronary artery related ischemia and therefore require prompt recognition and treatment of underlying condition, that may be serious and life-threatened. For example of such conditions are pericarditis, myocarditis, aortic dissection, electrolyte abnormalities, intracranial hemorrhage and hypothermia.

Together with them, an ECG ST segment changes may appeared in abdominal serious illness such as pancreatitis and cholecystitis(17,18,19,20,23). Whereas in pancreatitis various vasoactive and toxic for myocardium substances released, the cause of ST segment changes in cholecystitis are discussed and includes tachycardia , vagal reflexes, changed in plasma rennin activity resulted by distension of the gallbladder.

The certain proportion of the patients with ECG changes actually didn't have coronary artery disease(9,15) or other acute cardiac condition and therefore require treatment of the underlie illness only without spend the time for cardiac investigation or special treatment(1,3,4,7,8). Some kind of treatment may be even harmful for the patients with abdominal illness such as thrombolytic, anticoagulant, aggressive antiaggregant therapy or unnecessary cardiac catheterization.

In the medical literature the investigators found some case reports and works about the ECG changes in acute biliary disease in patient with knowing cardiac disease and without it, but actually incidence of ECG changes that suggest but not represent an acute coronary illness isn't knowing.

Therefore this is necessary to investigate actually incidence of ECG changes that mimic acute coronary syndrome in acute cholecystitis and acute biliary disease and determined clinical and laboratory characteristics that helps to differentiate this patients.

Conditions

Acute Cholecystitis; Biliary Colic; Acute Cholangitis

Keywords

acute ECG changes; acute illness of gallbladder; acute illness of biliary tract

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: CASE_ONLY
• Study Time Perspective: RETROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

1. Patients from age 18 and up to 75years old.

2. Causes of admission to the ED are acute cholecystitis, biliary colic, acute cholangitis

3. The patient is willing to participate in the study and is able to sign an informed consent form.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Elective hospitalization with known and not acute condition.

2. Inability to give inform consent .

3. Sepsis as complication of illness.

4. Chronic ECG changes known by medical history.

5. Knowing history of IHD.

6. Previous cardiac catheterization with documented stenosis of at least 1 major coronary artery equal or more 50%.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 75 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Ziv Hospital

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Inna Rozenfeld , MD

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Ziv Medical Center

Safed, , Israel

Countries

Israel

Facility Contacts

Inna Rozenfeld, MD

Role: primary

Other Identifiers

ECGCTIL

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id