L-citrulline for Prevention of Sequelae of Acute Lung Injury in Pediatrics Undergoing Cardiopulmonary Bypass for Heart Defects
Acute Lung Injury
About this trial
This is an interventional prevention trial for Acute Lung Injury focused on measuring L-citrulline, pediatric, Lung Injury, Bypass, Heart Defects, Clinical Sequelae
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Subjects, parents, or legal guardian of the subject who are willing and able to sign informed consent
- Male and female subjects aged ≤18 years of age
- Infants, children and adolescents undergoing CPB for repair of a large unrestrictive VSD, an ostium primum ASD, or a partial or complete AVSD
- Pre-operative echocardiogram which confirms the cardiovascular anatomy and defect to be surgically repaired
Exclusion Criteria:
Evidence of pulmonary artery or vein abnormalities on the pre-operative echocardiogram that will not be addressed surgically. Specific abnormalities excluded include the following:
- Significant pulmonary artery narrowing not amenable to surgical correction
- Previous pulmonary artery stent placement
- Significant left sided AV valve regurgitation not amenable to surgical correction
- Pulmonary venous return abnormalities not amenable to surgical correction
- Pulmonary vein stenosis not amenable to surgical correction
- Preoperative requirement for mechanical ventilation or intravenous inotrope support
- Presence of fixed or idiopathic pulmonary hypertension (i.e. Eisenmenger's Syndrome) prior to surgical repair
- Pre-operative use of medications to treat pulmonary hypertension
- Pregnancy; Females of child-bearing potential must be willing to participate an acceptable method of birth control for the duration of study participation (e.g. oral contraceptive, hormonal implant, intra-uterine device)
- Any condition which, in the opinion of the investigator, might interfere with the study objectives
- Participation in another clinical trial within 30 days of Screening or while participating in the current study, including the 28 days of follow-up post study drug administration
Sites / Locations
- University of Alabama
- Loma Linda University Children's Hospital
- University of California Davis Medical Center
- Children's Hospital Colorado
- Children's National Medical Center
- Nicklaus Children's Hospital
- Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children
- Advocate Children's Hospital
- Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital
- University of Mississippi Medical Center
- St Louis University, SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital
- Washington University School of Medicine/ St Louis Children's Hospital
- The Children's Hospital at Montefiore
- Columbia University Medical Center
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
- Nationwide Children's Hospital
- Primary Children's Hospital
- Seattle Children's Hospital
- University of Wisconsin
- LKH-Universitätsklinikum Graz Universitätsklinik für Kinder- und Jugendheilkunde
- Medizinische Universität Wien, Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendheilkunde, Abteilung für Pädiatrische Kardiologie Kinderherzzentrum
- Universitätsmedizin Göttingen
- Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
- Klinik für Kinderkardiologie und angeborene Herzfehler. Deutsches Herzzentrum München - Klinik an der TU München
- Universitätsklinik Tübingen, Kinderkardiologie Pulmonologie, Intensivmedizin
- Rambam Health Care Center
- Wolfson Medical Center
- Sheba Medical Center
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Placebo Comparator
L-citrulline
Placebo
Bolus of 150 mg/kg at the initiation of cardiopulmonary bypass, but after removal of any crystalloid base; Addition of study medication at a concentration of 200 μmol/L given as a bolus during bypass. This may be administered as a one-time bolus or multiple administrations to compensate for fluids containing L-citrulline that may be removed from the patient during the course of the operation and thus to maintain the concentration of 200 μmol/L; Bolus of 20 mg/kg 30 minutes after decannulation from cardiopulmonary bypass; 9 mg/kg/hr continuous infusion for up to 48 hours.
Bolus of 150 mg/kg at the initiation of cardiopulmonary bypass; Addition of placebo matched for volume given as a bolus during bypass. This may be administered as a one-time bolus or multiple administrations during bypass; Bolus of 20 mg/kg 30 minutes after decannulation from cardiopulmonary bypass; 9 mg/kg/hr continuous infusion for up to 48 hours.