Samples From Human Subjects to Facilitate Basic, Translational and Clinical Research

Description

Our department is evaluating various aspects of the cardiovascular system and/or endothelial dysfunction and/or inflammation in disease states, such as, but not limited to, pulmonary hypertension (PH) and other pulmonary vascular diseases, arteriosclerosis, transplantation, inflammatory processes and sepsis. The collection of human blood and urine from both research subjects and healthy volunteers is necessary for the development of relevant laboratory assays and protocols, and to further research studies requiring such evaluations. In research subjects undergoing renal replacement therapy who produce limited urine we may also sample ultrafiltrate as a surrogate for urine. This protocol defines in general terms the purposes for which blood, urine and ultrafiltrate will be collected by members of the NIH s Clinical Center (CC), Critical Care Medicine Department (CCMD) and collaborating institutions and establishes general conditions under which sampling will be performed.