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Administrative data

NCT number NCT02021253
Other study ID # 2012/130/HP
Secondary ID
Status Completed
Phase N/A
First received
Last updated
Start date April 2013
Est. completion date April 12, 2018

Study information

Verified date May 2018
Source University Hospital, Rouen
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Surgical resection is one of the curative treatment modalities for HCC. Limits are postoperative septic and liver functional complications related to an increase in bacterial translocation and systemic endotoxemia. Bacterial translocation is a passage of bacteria and bacterial degradation products from the intestine to the portal circulation. The endotoxemia secondary to bacterial translocation, stimulates endothelial production of nitric oxide (NO). NO is also a potent inducer of membrane instability, responsible for an increase in the permeability of the vascular endothelium and intestinal mucosa, possibly contributing to a worsening of bacterial translocation.

Probiotics are live microorganisms which when administered in adequate amounts, provide a health benefit on the host ((Health and Nutritional Properties of Probiotics in Food Including Powder Milk with Live Lactic Acid Bacteria - Cordoba Argentina October 2001). Data from experimental and clinical literature show a significant effect of probiotics on the improvement of liver function and a decrease in infectious complications in patients with chronic liver disease. The proposed study would evaluate the effect preventive and therapeutic in a population of surgical patients, in whom the intestinal portal and hepatic inflammation promotes postoperative complications.


Description:

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of the administration of probiotics on intestinal barrier function in patients with chronic liver disease (fibrosis stage F3 or F4) operated for hepatocellular carcinoma.

After hepatectomy, kinetic of endotoxemia have been studied previously and the evolution will be summarized by the area under the plasma concentration versus time curve (AUC) of circulating endotoxin levels measured before surgery and at 5 different times analysis after hepatectomy. At 12 hours, portal hypertension and its consequences on gut permeability (impaired barrier function, bacterial translocation) are highest with peak of circulating endotoxins. The decreasing of endotoxemia curve is observed between the 2nd and 3rd day (end of liver regeneration and early liver architectural reorganization). On the 5th day, persist measurable but not deleterious to liver restructured and theoretically functional rates.

Then the main criterion to demonstrate the effectiveness of a diet enriched with probiotics is the AUC of circulating levels of endotoxins ((pg/ml) using the Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL) assay) observed for each patient. Endotoxin levels were analysed on samples of peripheral blood. The two arms of equal size will be considered significantly different when compared to the AUC of circulating levels of endotoxin if the null hypothesis (AUC is the same for both arms) is rejected in favor of the alternative hypothesis (AUC differs between the two arms - Wilcoxon test)

In order to estimate the sample size to distinguish between the two hypotheses with sufficient power, the median AUC in arm without probiotics be used to form two groups of patients in each arm. Thus, half of the patients without probiotics have a higher median AUC arms. Then, this proportion may be compared to the proportion of patients with probiotics have an AUC greater than the median of the group without probiotics.

The secondary endpoints are:

- Evaluation of systemic inflammation by assay of inflammatory cytokines

- IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, GM-CSF, IFNa, TNFa

- CRP

- Leukocyte count

- The post-operative liver function monitored in the usual manner

- Standard Liver function tests between J1 and J5 (Bilirubin, prothrombin, ammonia)

- Indocyanine green clearance with measuring retention rates at 15 minutes between J1 and J3

- Monitoring of overall postoperative complications and specifically liver failure and infectious complications at 3 months.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 64
Est. completion date April 12, 2018
Est. primary completion date April 12, 2018
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender All
Age group 18 Years and older
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria:

- Agreement signed by the patient

- Diagnosis of HCC confirmed

- Diagnosis of liver disease (score F3 or F4) confirmed

- Indication of surgical resection confirmed and validated by a specialist multidisciplinary assessment meeting of gastrointestinal oncology

- Patient operable (no indication against anaesthesiological)

- Resectable tumor lesion (surgical expertise)

- Laboratory tests and endoscopy: No suspicion of severe portal hypertension with bleeding risk

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patient not willing, at risk of default of compliance, or patient can not be monitored regularly

- Antibiotic extended or terminated for less than 1 month, may limit the effects of taking probiotics.

- Inflammatory Bowel Disease, which could skew the results expected by taking probiotics results.

Study Design


Intervention

Dietary Supplement:
Probiotic
Lactibiane TOLERANCE vs Placebo
Placebo


Locations

Country Name City State
France University Hospital Rouen Haute Normandie

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
University Hospital, Rouen

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Area under the plasma concentration versus time curve (AUC) of endotoxins circulating levels -12, 3, 12,24, 72, 120 hours at time of surgery
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