Evaluation of Discriminating Power of Two Biomarkers in the Evaluation of Cerebral Lesions Due to Head Injuries in Infants and Children

NCT ID: NCT02855034

Last Updated: 2025-10-03

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

TERMINATED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

167 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2016-05-27

Study Completion Date

2023-10-10

Brief Summary

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Head injury is a frequent motive of consultation in paediatric emergency units and the first cause of mortality in infants of more than one year old in developped countries. The indication of performing cerebral CT scans currently depends on clinical decision based on recommendations used in adults. In this way, 60 to 90% of scans are normal in children with head injury. CT scan is expensive and irradiating with the risk of increasing the cancer in children. Protein S100B and copeptin are biomarkers which have shown their ability to detect cerebral lesion in children with head injury. (protein S100B and /or in adults protein S100B and copetin).

It is the first clinical biological evaluation of severity of head injury based on dosing of copeptin alone or associated with protein S100B.

Furthermore, the evaluation of the biomarkers GFAP, NFL, Tau and UCH-L1 is today necessary from a scientific point of view and to optimize the diagnostic and prognostic value of these biomarkers which can be combined. Indeed, these protein biomarkers are biologically linked to the protein S100B and copeptin, and will allow a more specific and more thorough evaluation of the presence of brain damage at the cellular level. More specifically, the measurement of the S-100B and GFAP proteins will allow evaluation of gliovascular damage while those of copeptin, NFL, Tau and UCH-L1 proteins will allow evaluation of neuronal damage. The assay of these different biomarkers will also be carried out on a control population, without head injury or neurological or inflammatory pathologies, in order to establish the standards of these biomarkers on a pediatric population of similar age.

Detailed Description

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265 children or infants will be recruited during 84 months. 220 patients with a suspicion of head injury and 45 patients without head injury.

Each patient will attend a visit of inclusion and a blood sample. Just patients with a suspicion of head injury have a visit at 96 hours +/- 24 hours after the inclusion: this visit is made by phone. The patient and his parents will have to answer to a phone questionnaire

Conditions

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Traumatic Brain Injury

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

DIAGNOSTIC

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Blood sample

All the patients performed the same blood samples for dosage: copeptin, S-100B, GFAP, NFL and UCHL-1 proteins

Group Type OTHER

Blood samples

Intervention Type OTHER

Blood samples for dosage: copeptin and protein S100B

Interventions

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Blood samples

Blood samples for dosage: copeptin and protein S100B

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Paediatric patients aged 3 months up to 15 years
* Cranial trauma with indication of brain scanner according to risk of clinically important traumatic brain injury (high or intermediate risk), according the clinical prediction rule Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN)
* Period of 6 hours of less after cranial trauma
* Informed and written consent from one of the parents or legal representatives
* Patient must be covered by a french social security scheme


* Paediatric patients aged 3 months up to 15 years admitted to the emergency room for whom a blood sample is required
* Informed and written consent from one of the parents or legal representatives
* Patient must be covered by a french social security scheme

Exclusion Criteria

* A pre-existing intracranial injury or malformation, or osteogenesis imperfecta
* Coagulation disorder
* Multiple accidental trauma
* Evocative elements of mistreatment


* Cranial trauma ou suspicion of cranial trauma
* brain pathology including migraines
* Febrile syndrome
* Chronic inflammatory pathology
* Known bleeding disorder
* Evocative elements of mistreatment
Minimum Eligible Age

3 Months

Maximum Eligible Age

15 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University Hospital, Montpellier

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Gaƫlle TOURNIAIRE, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Montpellier University Hospital

Locations

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Montpellier University Hospital

Montpellier, , France

Site Status

Countries

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France

References

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Related Links

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https://www.cdc.gov/traumatic-brain-injury/

US Department of Health and Human Services. Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Traumatic brain injury in the United States : Emergency department visits, hospitalizations and deaths 2002-2006.

Other Identifiers

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2015-A00553-46

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

9546

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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