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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT02164292
Date of registration: 11/06/2014
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires
Public title: ALPPS: Safety, Feasibility and Efficacy at a Single Center
Scientific title: Associating Liver Partition and Portal Vein Ligation for Staged Hepatectomy (ALPPS): Safety, Feasibility and Efficacy at a Single Center
Date of first enrolment: June 2011
Target sample size: 30
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02164292
Study type:  Observational
Study design:   
Phase: 
Countries of recruitment
Argentina
Contacts
Name:     Eduardo de SantibaƱes, MD, PhD
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Affiliation:  General Surgery Service, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires. Argentina
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Patients with marginally resectable or primarily non-resectable locally advanced liver
tumors

- Insufficient FLR either in volume or quality

Exclusion Criteria:

- Unresectable liver metastases in the future liver remnant or unresectable extrahepatic
metastases

- Severe portal hypertension

- High anesthesiological risk

- Unresectable primary tumor



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 85 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Locally Advanced Malignant Liver Disease
Intervention(s)
Procedure: ALPPS
Primary Outcome(s)
Feasibility of the procedure defined as percentage of patients that complete both surgical stages. [Time Frame: within 4 months after the first stage]
Safety of the procedure defined as the incidence of postoperative complications and mortality [Time Frame: within the first 90 days after the first stage]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Risk factors for morbidity [Time Frame: within 3 month after the first stage]
Disease-free survival and overall survival [Time Frame: 1 and 2 years]
Efficacy of the procedure defiend as the percentage of patients who achieve a sufficient future liver remnant hypertrophy [Time Frame: within 10 days after the first stage]
Risk factors for a reduced kinetic growth rate of the future liver remnant (<35 cc/day) [Time Frame: within 3 months after the first stage]
Secondary ID(s)
1942
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
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Date Completed:
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