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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT00194636
Date of registration: 13/09/2005
Primary sponsor: University of Washington
Public title: Effectiveness of Sympathetic Plexus Block on Male Pelvic Pain (Prostatitis, Prostatodynia)
Scientific title: Effectiveness 0f Sympathetic Plexus Block on Male Pelvic Pain (Prostatitis, Prostatodynia)
Date of first enrolment: November 2003
Target sample size: 20
Recruitment status: Suspended
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00194636
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Non-Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:   Richard E Berger, MD
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Telephone:
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Affiliation:  Professor of Urology
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Men with Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome who, for the past year, have not responded to
standard pain treatment modalities.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Urinary tract infection with common pathogens

- Treatment for prostate, bladder, renal, or other urinary malignancies.

- Back pain or rectal pain only

- Psychotic or suicidal men

- Post-surgical pain

- Pain from another source in genital the tract such as kidney stones or neoplasm

- Having had radiation therapy

- History of genitourinary tuberculosis

- Neurological abnormalities such as stroke, brain tumors, spinal tumors, spinal cord
injury and Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease.

- Drug allergies

- Use of any drugs, such as antihypertensives, that would interfere with biochemical
and electrodiagnostic tests.

- Bleeding and clotting disorders such as factor deficiencies or anticoagulant drug
use.



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 65 Years
Gender: Male
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Chronic Male Pelvic Pain Syndrome
Prostatitis
Intervention(s)
Procedure: nerve block
Primary Outcome(s)
change in symptom score; reflected in NIH-Symptom Index (CPSI) at Block Assessment Visit
Secondary Outcome(s)
AUA score at Block Assessment Visit
Secondary ID(s)
03-9426-A 02
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
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