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- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT01826760
Study of the Model to Predict 3-month Mortality Risk of Acute-on-chronic Hepatitis B Liver Failure
Study of 3-month Mortality Risk of Acute-on-chronic Hepatitis B Liver Failure Using Artificial Neural Network
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a major human pathogen which causes high morbidity and mortality worldwide. HBV is one of the leading causes for rapid deterioration of liver function, which is a serious condition termed as "acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF)" with high mortality. There is a high prevalence of HBV in Asian developing countries where acute-on-chronic hepatitis B liver failure (ACHBLF) accounts for more than 70% of ACLF and almost 120, 000 patients died of ACHBLF each year. The transplantation of liver is the basic and strong effective therapeutic option for ACHBLF patients. However, liver transplantation is difficult to be extensively applied due to the shortage of liver donors and other socioeconomic problems. Thus, an early predictive model, which is objective, reasonable and accurate, is necessary for severity discrimination and organ allocation to decrease the mortality of ACHBLF.
MELD-based scoring systems still failed to predict the mortality of a considerable proportion of patients and their predictive accuracy was not satisfying enough.
The ANN is a novel computer model inspired by the working of human brain. It can build nonlinear statistical models to deal with the complex biological systems. In the recent years, ANN models have been introduced in clinical medicine for clinical validations, including predicting the hepatocellular carcinoma patients' disease-free survival and preoperative tumor grade, predicting the mortality of patients with end-stage liver disease and identifying the risk of prostate carcinoma.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Zhejiang
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Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, 325000
- Wenzhou Medical College
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Sampling Method
Study Population
The patients were collected who were diagnosed with ACLF at the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College. Patients with ACHBLF were included in the study. ACHBLF was defined as an acute hepatic insult manifesting as jaundice and coagulopathy, complicated within 4 weeks by ascites and/or encephalopathy in a patient with chronic HBV infection. Patients with evidence of non-B hepatitis virus, alcohol abuse, autoimmune, toxic or other causes that might lead to liver failure, past or current hepatocellular carcinoma, liver transplantation, or serious diseases in other organ systems were excluded.
Informed consent was obtained from each patient included in the study and the research protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College.
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Acute hepatic insult manifesting as jaundice and coagulopathy
- Complicated within 4 weeks by ascites
- And/or encephalopathy in a patient with chronic HBV infection
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients with evidence of non-B hepatitis virus
- alcohol abuse leads to liver failure
- autoimmune leads to liver failure
- oxic or other causes that might lead to liver failure
- past or current hepatocellular carcinoma
- liver transplantation
- serious diseases in other organ systems
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
Cohorts and Interventions
Group / Cohort |
Intervention / Treatment |
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acute-on-chronic hepatitis B liver failure, training group
ACHBLF was defined as an acute hepatic insult manifesting as jaundice and coagulopathy, complicated within 4 weeks by ascites and/or encephalopathy in a patient with chronic HBV infection according to consensus recommendations of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver in 2009.
ACHBLF patients were assigned to a training cohort and a validation cohort randomly.
One of the major limitations of ANN is over-training, which can lead to good performance on training sets but poor performance on relatively independent validation sets.
To avoid over-training during building ANN, a part of ACHBLF patients were again randomly selected from the training group to train the network and the remaining were used for cross-validation.
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acute-on-chronic hepatitis B liver failure, testing group
ACHBLF was defined as an acute hepatic insult manifesting as jaundice and coagulopathy, complicated within 4 weeks by ascites and/or encephalopathy in a patient with chronic HBV infection according to consensus recommendations of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver in 2009.
To avoid over-training during building ANN, a part of ACHBLF patients were again randomly selected from the training group to train the network and the remaining were used for cross-validation.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Living status
Time Frame: Up to 08 months
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The routine therapy of patients were same, including absolute bed rest, energy supplements and vitamins, intravenous drop infusion albumin, maintenance water, electrolyte and acid-base equilibrium, and prevention and treatment complications, etc.
The start date of the follow-up was the date of the diagnosis of ACHBLF.
In this study, patients receiving liver transplantation within 3 months were considered as death.
All patients with ACHBLF were followed up for at least 3 months and the outcome (death or survival) of corresponding patient was recorded.
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Up to 08 months
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Calculating MELD-based Scoring Systems
Time Frame: Up to 02 months
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MELD score (R = 9.57 × ln (creatinine (mg/dL)) + 3.78×ln (bilirubin (mg/dL)) + 11.2×ln (INR) + 6.43) was used to measure the mortality risk in patients with end-stage liver disease.
Given the lack of donors, MELD was used as organ allocation tool to increase graft success rate and patient survival rates, which was generally accepted.
Recently, some adjustments were added to the original MELD formula to overcome limitations of MELD score.
Published data suggested that MELD-Na (R = MELD + 1.59 × (135 - serum sodium (mmol/L))) might improve the prognostic accuracy [5].
Furthermore, several other scoring systems such as MELDNa (R = MELD - serum sodium (mmol/L) - (0.025 × MELD × (140 - serum sodium (mmol/L))) + 140), MESO (R = (MELD/serum sodium (mmol/L)) × 100), iMELD (R = MELD + (age(year) × 0.3) - (0.7 × serum sodium (mmol/L)) + 100)), etc had been described for predicting the mortality of end-stage liver disease accurately.
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Up to 02 months
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Construction of ANN
Time Frame: Up to 01 months
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ANN can mimic a biological neural system both structurally and functionally.
It consists of a set of highly complex, interconnected processing units (neurons) linked with weighted connections, and include an input layer, an output layer and one or more hidden layers.
The input layer contains neurons which receive the data available for the analysis (e.g.
various clinical, demographic or laboratory data) and the output layer contains neurons which export different predictive outcomes (e.g.
clinical diagnosis or prognosis).
The hidden layers are used to allow complex relations between the input and output neurons to evolve.In this study, we built ANN by using a graphical neural network development tool NeuroSolution V5.05 (Neurodimension, Florida, United State).
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Up to 01 months
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Statistical Analysis
Time Frame: Up to 02 months
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Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS 13.0 software and MedCalc 10.0 software. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was applied to determine whether sample data were likely to be derived from a normal distribution population. Continuous variables were expressed by mean ± standard deviation and compared using Wilcoxon signed rank test or Mann-Whitney U test when necessary. Categorical variables were described by proportions or count and compared using proportions Chi-square test or the Fisher's exact test when necessary. Performances of the ANN prediction in the training cohort and in the validation cohort were tested using ROC analysis, in which AUROC was used to compare the performance of ANN and MELD-based scoring series using the Hanley and McNeil method. A value of P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. |
Up to 02 months
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Laboratory Tests
Time Frame: Up to 07 months
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Liver function tests, complete blood count and coagulation tests were performed within the first 24h after admission.
The liver function tests included alanine aminotranferase, aspartate aminotranferase, total bilirubin (TBil), albumin, serum sodium, alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) and creatinine.
Complete blood count was made up of platelet and hemoglobin (Hb).
Coagulation tests contained prothrombin activity (PTA) and international normalized ratio (INR).
Additionally, hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) was detected by conventional serological assays.
Serum HBV DNA was measured by quantitative polymerase chain reaction(PCR) assay (Roche Amplicor, limit of detectability of 100 IU/ml) after admission.
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Up to 07 months
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Investigators
- Study Chair: Ming Hua Zheng, Medical Master, First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College
- Study Chair: Xian Feng Lin, Medical undergraduate, Wenzhou Medical University
- Study Chair: Ke Qing Shi, Medical Master, First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College
- Principal Investigator: Wen Yue Liu, Medical undergraduate, Wenzhou Medical University
- Principal Investigator: Chen Chen Zhao, Medical undergraduate, Wenzhou Medical University
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Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
- Digestive System Diseases
- RNA Virus Infections
- Virus Diseases
- Infections
- Blood-Borne Infections
- Communicable Diseases
- Liver Diseases
- Hepatitis, Viral, Human
- Hepadnaviridae Infections
- DNA Virus Infections
- Enterovirus Infections
- Picornaviridae Infections
- Liver Failure
- Hepatic Insufficiency
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B, Chronic
- Hepatitis, Chronic
Other Study ID Numbers
- wenzhouMC 023
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