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Completed Not applicable Interventional

Randomized Trial Comparing Endoscopy and Surgery for Pancreatic Cyst-gastrostomy

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT00826501

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Brief summary

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Patients with pancreatitis can develop inflammatory fluid collection around the pancreas called pseudocysts. Pseudocysts may cause abdominal pain when they are more than 6cm in size. These pseudocysts can be treated (drained) by surgery or by endoscopy. Both treatment options are the current standard-of-care at all institutions around the World. The aim of this study is to identify the better of the two techniques, surgery versus endoscopy, for treatment of patients with pancreatic pseudocysts. This will be done by comparing a) the rates of pseudocyst recurrence b) quality of life of patients following treatment and c) cost associated with treatment, between both treatment modalities.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT00826501
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Lead sponsor
Shyam Varadarajulu
Other
Enrollment
40 participants

Conditions and interventions

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
19 Years to 85 Years
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Healthy volunteers not accepted

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Study timeline

Start date
Dec 31, 2008
Primary completion
Nov 30, 2009
Completion
Dec 31, 2011
Last update posted
Mar 17, 2013

2009 – 2012

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
University of Alabama at birmingham Birmingham Alabama 35244

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