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Administrative data

NCT number NCT05386693
Other study ID # 21-1176
Secondary ID
Status Terminated
Phase
First received
Last updated
Start date April 20, 2022
Est. completion date March 25, 2024

Study information

Verified date April 2024
Source The Cleveland Clinic
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The management of chronic pain after inguinal hernia surgery presents unique challenges. Ilioinguinal nerve blocks are often used in the initial treatment of this disease. This can often be followed by surgery, including neurectomy and/or hernia mesh removal. In an effort to identify preoperative predictors of postoperative outcomes following these surgical interventions the investigators devised a study to prospectively evaluate and correlate a patients pre-operative response to an ilioinguinal nerve block with their post-operative outcomes following surgery for chronic groin pain after inguinal hernia surgery.


Description:

In the United States, 800,000 inguinal hernia repairs are performed annually, making it one of the most common surgical procedures.1,2 While major advancement has been gained in minimizing hernia recurrence, chronic pain after groin hernia repair remains the most common and significant complication of this surgery, drastically affecting patients' quality of life.3,4 Chronic pain has a substantial impact on physical, emotional, and cognitive function, on social and family life, and on the ability to work and secure an income 5. It has been reported that 5-10% of patients undergoing inguinal hernia repair develop postoperative chronic pain, the etiology of which remains unclear.6,7 Multiple behavioral, physical, and pharmacological interventions have shown positive results in treating chronic postoperative inguinal pain.8 Yet, some patients develop refractory pain severe enough to warrant removing the nerve tissue carrying the pain signal from the inguinal region, a procedure called neurectomy. While neurectomy provides an excellent outcome for some patients, others have no clear benefit from this surgery. 1,8-10 The challenge remains to identify which patients will gain the most advantage from neurectomy. Identifying patients who are least likely to benefit from the neurectomy will help spare them going through unnecessary pain and risk from the surgical intervention, reduce the cost of medical care, and focus efforts on other interventions that may provide better outcomes. This study aims to answer the question of whether or not pre-operative injection of an inguinal nerve predicts a patient's response to neurectomy. Specific Aims During the preoperative assessment for neurectomy, patients undergo a minor procedure involving injecting a local analgesic around the nerve, a nerve block. In this study, the investigators propose providing the patients with pain and quality of life questionnaires and tools to assess their baseline pain, response to the local analgesics, and response to the neurectomy procedure. The specific aims of the study are: 1. Evaluate the reliability of nerve block to predict patient response to neurectomy procedure: While nerve blocks have been frequently used as part of the preoperative assessment to neurectomy, the response from nerve block has not been correlated with post-neurectomy pain outcomes. The investigators intend to objectively assess pain relief in response to nerve block and neurectomy in this specific aim. The investigators hypothesized that patients who reported relief in response to nerve blocks would have pain relief from post neurectomy procedure, and patients who did not experience relief from nerve blocks will not have relief from post neurectomy procedure. 2. Evaluate the correlation between the extent of pain relief from nerve block to post neurectomy pain relief: The Visual Assessment Scale (VAS) is a tool that provides a quantified assessment of pain. Assessing the pain with VAS before and after nerve block will provide a scale of change in pain level in response to the nerve block injection, the extent of which can be correlated with post neurectomy VAS to predict the outcome. The investigators hypothesize that patients with a greater improvement in pain level in response to nerve block have a higher chance of achieving pain relief with neurectomy than those with a low improvement in pain level from the nerve block.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Terminated
Enrollment 10
Est. completion date March 25, 2024
Est. primary completion date March 25, 2024
Accepts healthy volunteers Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Gender All
Age group 18 Years and older
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria: - Adult patients (18 years of older) - Chronic groin pain Exclusion Criteria: - Not a surgical candidate

Study Design


Intervention

Procedure:
Ilioinguinal nerve block
Local anesthetic injection of the ilioinguinal nerve. This is performed in the outpatient clinic.

Locations

Country Name City State
United States Cleveland Clinic Cleveland Ohio

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
The Cleveland Clinic

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Change in pain levels Pain as measured with the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) using a scale of 0 to 100; with 0 being the least amount of pain and 100 being the most amount of pain. Baseline and 3 months after surgery
Primary Change in pain levels Pain as measured with the Chronic Groin Pain Questionnaire which uses a Numeric Rating Scale (NRS). NRS uses a scale of 0 to 10; with 0 being the least amount of pain and 10 being the most amount of pain. Baseline and 3 months after surgery
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