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Last refreshed on: 10 August 2015
Main ID:  NCT01349426
Date of registration: 04/05/2011
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne
Public title: Ligasure II: Standard Stapling Versus Ligasure
Scientific title: Standard Stapling Technique Versus Bipolar Fusion (With The Ligasure Impact and Force Triad Generator) To Complete The Fissure During Major Lung Resection: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial
Date of first enrolment: September 2010
Target sample size: 172
Recruitment status: Terminated
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01349426
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Bio-equivalence Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label  
Phase:  Phase 3
Countries of recruitment
France
Contacts
Name:     TIFFET Olivier, MD
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Affiliation:  CHU Sainte-Etienne
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Patients older than 18 years

- Patients scheduled for thoracotomy, lobectomy or bilobectomy

- Patients must give informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patient is unwilling or unable to provide informed consent

- Patients who can not tolerate thoracotomy

- Patients who require extensive dissection to release adhesions which may result in
air leak and/or bleeding unrelated to the quality of the parenchymal seal achieved by
the devices in question

- Patients with no parenchymal bridge between lobes; 100% complete fissure.

- Patients with complete incomplete fissure with a thickness > 1.5 cm measure
intraoperatively



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Lung Resection
Intervention(s)
Device: LigaSure Force Triad Vessel Sealing System
Primary Outcome(s)
Rates of post-operative air leak between the two techniques [Time Frame: Day 1]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Compare the number of lung stitches between LigaSure device and standard staplers [Time Frame: Day 1]
Evaluate the cost of LigaSure vs standard staplers in similar procedures including the cost of each instrument and the staple loads fired. [Time Frame: Day 1]
Secondary ID(s)
2010-A00666-33
1008067
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Medtronic - MITG
Ethics review
Results
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