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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT00161980
Date of registration: 08/09/2005
Primary sponsor: Baxter Healthcare Corporation
Public title: Efficacy and Safety of Fibrin Sealant Vapor Heated Solvent/Detergent Treated (FS VH S/D) for Reduction of Lymphatic Leakage by Sealing Axillary Lymph Node Dissection Sites
Scientific title: A Randomized and Controlled Clinical Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Fibrin Sealant VH S/D (FS VH S/D) in Reduction of Lymphatic Leakage by Sealing Axillary Lymph Node Dissection Sites
Date of first enrolment: June 2001
Target sample size:
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00161980
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind, Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
Austria France Germany Italy
Contacts
Name:   Andreas Berger, MD
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Affiliation:  General Hospital / University Hospital Vienna, Austria
Name:   Diethelm Wallwiener, MD
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Affiliation:  University of Tübingen, Germany
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Written informed consent has been obtained from the subject prior to FS VH S/D
administration

- Female subjects >= 19 years of age

- Subjects with breast cancer scheduled to undergo lumpectomy of the breast and level I
and II axillary lymphadenectomy with two separate incisions

Exclusion Criteria:

- Subjects with known hypersensitivity to aprotinin or other components of the product

- Subjects with immunodeficiency

- Subjects with increased red cell production (e.g., in hemolytic anemia)

- Subjects with coagulation disorders shown by exceeding the normal range of any of
following: prothrombin time (PT), Quick, activated partial thromboplastin time
(aPTT), fibrinogen level, or thrombocytes.

- Subjects having previously had axillary surgery

- Subjects having undergone irradiation therapy to the axillary tissue

- Subjects having ever received chemotherapy before the surgery



Age minimum: 19 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Female
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Breast Cancer
Lumpectomy
Lymphatic Leakage
Mastectomy Plus Axillary Lymph Node Dissection
Intervention(s)
Drug: Fibrin Sealant VH S/D
Procedure: Surgical intervention alone without Fibrin Sealant VH S/D application
Primary Outcome(s)
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
550002
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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