ALTA TIPS: A 5-year Longitudinal Observational Study of Patients Undergoing TIPS Placement
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Official title
Advancing Liver Therapeutic Approaches (ALTA). The ALTA Consortium Study Group for the Management of Portal Hypertension - A 5-year Longitudinal Observational Study of Patients Undergoing Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt (TIPS) Placement
Brief summary
Reproduced verbatim from the official ClinicalTrials.gov record. Not medical advice.
ALTA is a multicenter consortium focused on the management of portal hypertension. ALTA TIPS is a longitudinal observational study of patients who are undergoing transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) placement. ALTA will create a database that will provide clinical parameters and outcomes of patients undergoing TIPS as part of their standard of care in hopes of answering key clinical questions.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT03973372
- Recruitment status
- Active, not recruiting
- Study type
- Observational
- Phase
- Not listed
- Enrollment
- 852 participants
Conditions and interventions
Interventions
Not listed
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Jun 10, 2019 (Actual)
- Primary completion
- Dec 2026 (Estimated)
- Completion
- Dec 2027 (Estimated)
- Last update posted
- Feb 10, 2026
2019 – 2027
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 14
- U.S. states
- 8
- U.S. cities
- 11
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Arizona | Phoenix | Arizona | 85006 | — |
| Stanford | Redwood City | California | 94063 | — |
| Scripps Health | San Diego | California | 92121 | — |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco | California | 94115 | — |
| University of Florida | Gainesville | Florida | 32608 | — |
| Northwestern | Chicago | Illinois | 60611 | — |
| University of Chicago | Chicago | Illinois | 60637 | — |
| University of Minnesota | Minneapolis | Minnesota | 55455 | — |
| Mayo Clinic Rochester | Rochester | Minnesota | 55905 | — |
| Columbia University | New York | New York | 10032 | — |
| Weill Cornell | New York | New York | 10065 | — |
| Baylor Scott & White Liver Consultants of Texas | Dallas | Texas | 75246 | — |
| University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | Dallas | Texas | 75390 | — |
| University of Wisconsin Madison | Madison | Wisconsin | 53705 | — |
Site contact phone numbers, emails, and investigator names are intentionally not displayed here. Open the official ClinicalTrials.gov record for site contact information.
About this trial record page
- What this page shows
- Public field values for ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03973372, including study identification, conditions, interventions, eligibility (age, sex, healthy volunteer), timeline, and U.S. site list.
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- No medical advice, eligibility judgments, treatment recommendations, study quality scoring, or AI-generated medical summaries. No site contact phone numbers, emails, or investigator names.
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- Last refresh
- Last update posted Feb 10, 2026 · Synced Oct 21, 2026
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