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Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT01410591
Date of registration: 04/08/2011
Primary sponsor: Fourth Military Medical University
Public title: TIPS With 8- OR 10-mm Covered Stent for Preventing Variceal Rebleeding T8/10SVB
Scientific title: The Effect of TIPS With 8- or 10-mm Covered Stent for Preventing Variceal Rebleeding in Cirrhotic Patients.
Date of first enrolment: July 2012
Target sample size: 120
Recruitment status: Recruiting
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01410591
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
China
Contacts
Name:   Guohong Han, MD
Address: 
Telephone: 86-29-84771528
Email: hangh@fmmu.edu.cn
Affiliation: 
Name:   Ming Bai, MD
Address: 
Telephone: 86-29-84771528
Email: ccckycdgd@yahoo.com.cn
Affiliation: 
Name:   Guohong Han, PhD & MD
Address: 
Telephone:
Email:
Affiliation:  Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Cirrhotic patients with at least one episode of variceal bleeding

- No active bleeding within 5 days before TIPS

- Child-Pugh score =13

- Signed written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

- An age <18 years or >75 years

- With TIPS contraindications

- Past or present history of hepatic encephalopathy

- Pregnancy or breast-feeding

- Hepatic carcinoma and/or other malignancy diseases

- Sepsis

- Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis

- Uncontrollable hypertension

- Serious cardiac or pulmonary dysfunction

- Renal failure

- Portal vein thrombosis

- History of organ transplantation

- History of HIV (human immunodeficiency viruses) infection



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 75 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Bleeding Varices
Decompensated Cirrhosis
Portal Hypertension
Intervention(s)
Device: 10-mm covered stent group
Device: 8-mm covered stent group
Primary Outcome(s)
Incidence of shunt dysfunction. [Time Frame: 2 years]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Incidence of hepatic encephalopathy [Time Frame: 2 year]
Incidence of hepatic myelopathy [Time Frame: 2 year]
Incidence of variceal rebleeding [Time Frame: 2 years]
Survival [Time Frame: 2 year]
Secondary ID(s)
FMMU-XHDD 003
T8/10CSVB
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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