Low Dose Euthyrox in Treatments of Paraquat Intoxication.
Status:
Not yet recruiting
Trial end date:
2023-12-31
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Paraquat is a common human toxicant and accounts for 20 deaths per million persons in the
world. Paraquat usually cause multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, including liver, kidney,
lung and heart dysfunction. Besides, pituitary insufficiency also occurs on those patients
with paraquat poisoning, which leads to multiple endocrine gland dysfunction, involving
adrenal gland, thyroid and sex gland.
As a result, the investigators decide to initiate the clinical trial to find whether thyroid
replacement therapy can furtherly reduce the mortality, and improve patients long-term
prognosis.
Phase:
Phase 4
Details
Lead Sponsor:
Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University
Collaborators:
First People's Hospital of Hangzhou Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of TCM