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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT00633503
Date of registration: 04/03/2008
Primary sponsor: University of California, Irvine
Public title: Monitoring of Tissue Transfer Flaps by Modulated Imaging (MI) Spectroscopy
Scientific title: Monitoring of Tissue Transfer Flaps by Modulated Imaging (MI) Spectroscopy
Date of first enrolment: January 2011
Target sample size: 200
Recruitment status: Recruiting
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00633503
Study type:  Observational
Study design:  Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Prospective  
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:   Thomas Scholz, MD
Address: 
Telephone: 714-456-3482
Email: tscholz@uci.edu
Affiliation: 
Name:   Gregory RD Evans, MD, FACS
Address: 
Telephone:
Email:
Affiliation:  Aesthetic and Plastic Surgery Institute
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Adult patients planned to undergo reconstructive surgery using either a pedicle or
free tissue transfer flap seen by The Plastic Surgery Service on either an in-patient
or outpatient bases.

- Adult patients that are planned to undergo reconstructive surgery as above and able
to receive information regarding the study and provide informed consent to enrollment
in the study.

Exclusion Criteria

- All emergency reconstructive surgery patients.

- Patients planned to undergo radiation therapy in the region of the reconstructive
surgery within 6 months after surgery.

- Patients who develop hypotension requiring the administration of vasopressors either
intra-operatively or during the post-operative period prior to discharge from the
hospital.

- Patients who develop clinical signs of a surgical site infection at the location of
the tissue transfer flap(s).

- Patients with the development of post-operative anemia requiring a blood transfusion
during the first 72 hours after surgery.

- Patients with tattooing or pigmented lesions on the tissue transfer flap.

- Patients who incur injury to the flaps secondary to trauma within 6 months of the
reconstructive surgery; with trauma defined as either accidental major trauma
resulting in injury to the tissue transfer flap or surgical trauma as a result of
further oncologic resection of tissues in close proximity to the tissue transfer
flap.

- Minor under the age of 18 years of age.

- Patients deemed unable to comprehend and provide informed consent to enrollment into
study due to either a cognitive deficit or medical condition.



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Reconstructive Surgical Procedures
Tissue Transplantation
Intervention(s)
Primary Outcome(s)
detection of flap complications by modulated imaging compared to clinical standards [Time Frame: as long as hospital stay (baseline before surgery, 72 hours after surgery and before discharge from hospital)]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
2007-5891
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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