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Administrative data

NCT number NCT03252509
Other study ID # INCA RI
Secondary ID
Status Completed
Phase N/A
First received
Last updated
Start date March 20, 2017
Est. completion date November 21, 2018

Study information

Verified date March 2018
Source Instituto Nacional de Cancer, Brazil
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study intends to evaluate the security and success rate of large bore percutaneous radiologic gastrostomy in patients with head and neck tumors, as a outpatient procedure.


Description:

Percutaneous gastrostomy is a procedure that intends to provide prolonged alimentary access to patients with normal gastrointestinal tract, which are unable to eat or are facing troubles with deglutition. Nowadays it is considered as the first line procedure to prolonged enteral access on this patients. The indications to perform a percutaneous gastrostomy in a cancer center are usually related to head and neck, central nervous system and esophagus tumors. In our institution around 80% of the percutaneous gastrostomy are performed in patients with head an neck tumors. Although percutaneous gastrostomy is considered a safe procedure, there are some complications related, specially in oncologic patients. Those complications are reported in about 40% of the cases. Percutaneous gastrostomy is usually performed as a inpatient procedure, which leads to hospitalization costs. However, some studies have shown that is safe and viable to perform percutaneous gastrostomy (both endoscopic or radiologic), as a outpatient procedure, in patients with head a neck tumors. As both techniques (endoscopic and radiologic) present similar results, patients treated in our institution that require a percutaneous gastrostomy are referred to endoscopic and interventional radiology departments. Some of these patients are selected to undergo an outpatient procedure, based on social and clinical criteria. The majority of the available data shows that both the endoscopic and the radiologic techniques present similar results in terms of security and rate of precocious and late complications, and that both are superior than the surgical technique, considering they are least invasive and related with lower rates of complication and costs. In the present, the traction (Gauderer-Ponsky) technique is the most widely used in our institution for the endoscopic procedure. In the interventional radiology department the percutaneous gastrostomy is performed using the introduction (Russel) technique, in which a guidewire is positioned after the stomach needle puncture, made under ultrasound or fluoroscopic guidance. After that, the tract is progressively dilated to allow the introduction of the gastrostomy balloon catheter, through the abdominal wall, using a peel-away sheath. This same technique can be performed for the endoscopic gastrostomy, using the same gastrostomy kit, but under endoscopic guidance. Some authors suggest that the introduction technique, although more challenging, is associated with less stoma infections, because is the only one that is not associated with oral catheterization. For the patients with head an neck tumors, there is also a reduced risk of metastases implants on the puncture site. Besides those considerations, the data available is still not consensual.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 39
Est. completion date November 21, 2018
Est. primary completion date November 21, 2018
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender All
Age group 18 Years and older
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria: - Surgical risk ASA I-III, Karnofsky Performance Status >70, acceptance and comprehension of the orientations and after-care, adequate social a familiar support, easy access to the hospital. Exclusion Criteria: - patients who live more than one hour away from the hospital, coagulopathies, refuse to join the protocol.

Study Design


Intervention

Procedure:
Percutaneous radiologic gastrostomy
Percutaneous radiologic gastrostomy: Under conscious sedation and local analgesia, the ultrasound is performed to determine abdominal structures. The stomach is distended using room air through a nasogastric catheter or a 5 French (Fr) catheter. Gastropexy is performed under fluoroscopic guidance. The stomach is accessed using a 18 gauge (G) needle. Guidewire is advanced to the stomach. Progressive tract dilatations until the size of the gastrostomy tube is achieved. The catheter is advanced through the peel-away sheath. The catheter's balloon is inflated with 10ml of distilled water. Iodine contrast is injected to confirm position. After the procedure, the patient is observed for 3 hours. If there are no complications, the patient is discharged.

Locations

Country Name City State
Brazil Instituto Nacional do Cancer - HC1 Rio de Janeiro

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Instituto Nacional de Cancer, Brazil

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Brazil, 

References & Publications (20)

Campoli PM, Cardoso DM, Turchi MD, Ejima FH, Mota OM. Assessment of safety and feasibility of a new technical variant of gastropexy for percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy: an experience with 435 cases. BMC Gastroenterol. 2009 Jun 26;9:48. doi: 10.1186/1471-230X-9-48. — View Citation

Cantwell CP, Perumpillichira JJ, Maher MM, Hahn PF, Arellano R, Gervais DA, Mueller PR. Antibiotic prophylaxis for percutaneous radiologic gastrostomy and gastrojejunostomy insertion in outpatients with head and neck cancer. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2008 Apr;19(4):571-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jvir.2007.11.012. — View Citation

Cosentini EP, Sautner T, Gnant M, Winkelbauer F, Teleky B, Jakesz R. Outcomes of surgical, percutaneous endoscopic, and percutaneous radiologic gastrostomies. Arch Surg. 1998 Oct;133(10):1076-83. — View Citation

de Souza e Mello GF, Lukashok HP, Meine GC, Small IA, de Carvalho RL, Guimarães DP, Mansur GR. Outpatient percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy in selected head and neck cancer patients. Surg Endosc. 2009 Jul;23(7):1487-93. doi: 10.1007/s00464-009-0381-y. Epub 2009 Mar 5. — View Citation

Foster JM, Filocamo P, Nava H, Schiff M, Hicks W, Rigual N, Smith J, Loree T, Gibbs JF. The introducer technique is the optimal method for placing percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tubes in head and neck cancer patients. Surg Endosc. 2007 Jun;21(6):897-901. Epub 2006 Dec 16. — View Citation

Gauderer MW, Ponsky JL, Izant RJ Jr. Gastrostomy without laparotomy: a percutaneous endoscopic technique. J Pediatr Surg. 1980 Dec;15(6):872-5. — View Citation

Giordano-Nappi JH, Ishioka S, Maluf-Filho F, Hondo FY, Matuguma SE, Sakai P. A new device for the introducer technique for percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy placement. Endoscopy. 2007 Feb;39 Suppl 1:E274-5. Epub 2007 Oct 24. — View Citation

Hiki N, Maetani I, Suzuki Y, Washizawa N, Fukuda T, Yamaguchi T; Tokyo Standard PEG Study Group. Reduced risk of peristomal infection of direct percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy in cancer patients: comparison with the pull percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy procedure. J Am Coll Surg. 2008 Nov;207(5):737-44. doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2008.06.335. Epub 2008 Aug 9. — View Citation

Horiuchi A, Nakayama Y, Tanaka N, Fujii H, Kajiyama M. Prospective randomized trial comparing the direct method using a 24 Fr bumper-button-type device with the pull method for percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy. Endoscopy. 2008 Sep;40(9):722-6. doi: 10.1055/s-2008-1077490. Epub 2008 Sep 4. — View Citation

Koide T, Inamori M, Kusakabe A, Uchiyama T, Watanabe S, Iida H, Endo H, Hosono K, Sakamoto Y, Fujita K, Takahashi H, Yoneda M, Tokoro C, Yasuzaki H, Goto A, Abe Y, Kobayashi N, Kubota K, Saito S, Nahajima A. Early complications following percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy: results of use of a new direct technique. Hepatogastroenterology. 2010 Nov-Dec;57(104):1639-44. — View Citation

Kusaka K, Itoh T, Kawaura K, Yamakawa J, Takahashi T, Kanda T. Three-point fixation of stomach to abdominal wall in the percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy procedure. Endoscopy. 2005 May;37(5):494. — View Citation

Maetani I, Tada T, Ukita T, Inoue H, Sakai Y, Yoshikawa M. PEG with introducer or pull method: a prospective randomized comparison. Gastrointest Endosc. 2003 Jun;57(7):837-41. — View Citation

Russell TR, Brotman M, Norris F. Percutaneous gastrostomy. A new simplified and cost-effective technique. Am J Surg. 1984 Jul;148(1):132-7. — View Citation

Rustom IK, Jebreel A, Tayyab M, England RJ, Stafford ND. Percutaneous endoscopic, radiological and surgical gastrostomy tubes: a comparison study in head and neck cancer patients. J Laryngol Otol. 2006 Jun;120(6):463-6. — View Citation

Sacks BA, Vine HS, Palestrant AM, Ellison HP, Shropshire D, Lowe R. A nonoperative technique for establishment of a gastrostomy in the dog. Invest Radiol. 1983 Sep-Oct;18(5):485-7. — View Citation

Tucker AT, Gourin CG, Ghegan MD, Porubsky ES, Martindale RG, Terris DJ. 'Push' versus 'pull' percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube placement in patients with advanced head and neck cancer. Laryngoscope. 2003 Nov;113(11):1898-902. — View Citation

Van Dyck E, Macken EJ, Roth B, Pelckmans PA, Moreels TG. Safety of pull-type and introducer percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tubes in oncology patients: a retrospective analysis. BMC Gastroenterol. 2011 Mar 16;11:23. doi: 10.1186/1471-230X-11-23. — View Citation

Walton GM. Complications of percutaneous gastrostomy in patients with head and neck cancer--an analysis of 42 consecutive patients. Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 1999 Jul;81(4):272-6. — View Citation

Wilhelm SM, Ortega KA, Stellato TA. Guidelines for identification and management of outpatient percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube placement. Am J Surg. 2010 Mar;199(3):396-9; discussion 399-400. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2009.08.023. — View Citation

Wollman B, D'Agostino HB. Percutaneous radiologic and endoscopic gastrostomy: a 3-year institutional analysis of procedure performance. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 1997 Dec;169(6):1551-3. — View Citation

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Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Other Gastrostomy outcomes after the follow-up period. Death for any reason using the gastrostomy tube, elective withdrawal after recovery of swallow function and persistence with gastrostomy tube. Up to 24 weeks.
Primary Complication rate. Rate of other complications like bleeding, infection, cutaneous fistulae. Up to 24 weeks.
Secondary Duration of gastrostomy. Duration of primary gastrostomy tube. Up to 24 weeks.
Secondary Technical success rate. Gastrostomy tube insertion into gastric lumen. Immediately.
Secondary Procedure duration time. Time necessary to place the gastrostomy tube, from gastric distention to local dressing. Immediately after the procedure.
Secondary Pain intensity. Pain will be measured according to pain score (1-10). Immediately after the procedure and during the total follow-up period - Up to 24 weeks.
Secondary Additional procedures. Procedures required after gastrostomy placement, like tube reinsertion or tube changes. Up to 24 weeks.
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