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Administrative data

NCT number NCT02054910
Other study ID # F130822012
Secondary ID
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
First received January 29, 2014
Last updated March 9, 2015
Start date October 2013

Study information

Verified date March 2015
Source University of Alabama at Birmingham
Contact Jayapal Ramesh, MD
Phone 205-934-7964
Email jramesh@uab.edu
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority United States: Institutional Review Board
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study assesses the pain response to Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) guided Celiac Plexus Block (CPB) treatment in comparison to EUS without a pain block administered. All participants will receive medications for pain as needed.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Recruiting
Enrollment 120
Est. completion date
Est. primary completion date January 2017
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender Both
Age group 19 Years and older
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria:

- All patients referred to UAB Endoscopy Unit for with known chronic pancreatitis

- Patients referred to the endoscopy unit with abdominal pain with suspicion of chronic pancreatitis meeting 5 of 9 parenchymal and ductal changes (i.e. lobulations, hyperechoic stranding, hyperechoic foci, cysts, calcification, irregular duct, hyperechoic walls, side branch dilations and ductal calculi).

Exclusion Criteria:

- Age <19 years

- Unable to safely undergo EUS for any reason

- Coagulopathy (INR >1.6, Prothrombin Time >18secs, Thrombocytopenia <80,000 cells/ml)

- Unable to consent

- Non-English speaking patients.

- Previously undergone CPB

- Pregnancy and Breast feeding

- Patients with ductal strictures, calcification, pancreatic ductal calculi, pseudocysts.

- Previous pancreatic surgery

- Previous pseudocyst drainage

- Other documented causes of abdominal pain.

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Subject), Primary Purpose: Treatment


Intervention

Procedure:
Celiac Plexus Block

Sham


Locations

Country Name City State
United States University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham Alabama

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Change in pain response over a 6 month period of time Pain scores will be assessed over two points on the VAS over a 6 month period of time. Assessment will be by a standard 11 point continuous visual analog scale pain score. 6 months No