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Last refreshed on: 5 July 2021
Main ID:  NCT04938362
Date of registration: 13/06/2021
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: University of Oslo
Public title: Cognitive Function and Fatigue After Brain Abscess
Scientific title: Cognitive Function and Fatigue After Brain Abscess
Date of first enrolment: January 1, 2020
Target sample size: 50
Recruitment status: Recruiting
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT04938362
Study type:  Observational
Study design:   
Phase: 
Countries of recruitment
Norway
Contacts
Name:     Bjørnar Hassel, MD, PhD
Address: 
Telephone: +4722118080
Email: bjornar.hassel@medisin.uio.no
Affiliation: 
Name:     Peder H Utne
Address: 
Telephone: +4723066023
Email: pedutn@ous-hf.no
Affiliation: 
Name:     Daniel Dahlberg, MD, PhD
Address: 
Telephone:
Email:
Affiliation:  Oslo University Hospital
Name:     Bjørnar Hassel, MD, PhD
Address: 
Telephone:
Email:
Affiliation:  University of Oslo
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria:

• Patients who have completed treatment for brain abscess and who agree to participate.

Exclusion criteria:

- Patients who cannot undergo neuropsychological investigation due to unconsciousness

- Patients who cannot undergo neuropsychological investigation, being mentally too ill

- Patients who suffer from dementia

- Patients who cannot undergo FDG-PET due to claustrophobia

- Age under 16.



Age minimum: 16 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Brain Abscess
Cognitive Dysfunction
Fatigue
Intervention(s)
Other: FDG-PET
Primary Outcome(s)
A change in FDG-PET signal indicating a change in neuronal activity [Time Frame: When all patients have been followed up for at least 1 year.]
A change in FDG-PET signal indicating inflammation [Time Frame: When all patients have been followed up for at least 1 year.]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Fatigue after brain abscess [Time Frame: When all patients have been followed up for at least 1 year.]
No fatigue after brain abscess [Time Frame: When all patients have been followed up for at least 1 year.]
Secondary ID(s)
Cognition/fatigue/brainabscess
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Oslo University Hospital
Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
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