Pancreaticoduodenectomy With or Without Braun Enteroenterostomy: Comparison of Postoperative Pancreatic Fistula and Delayed Gastric Emptying

Stopped early · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Postoperative Pancreatic Fistula, Delayed Gastric Emptying

In brief

The investigators plan to perform a prospective randomized, head-to-head trial to test the hypothesis that the addition of Braun enteroenterostomy to standard pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) reconstruction can decrease the rates of Postoperative Pancreatic Fistula (POPF) and/or Delayed Gastric Emptying (DGE).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01481753

Run by

Johns Hopkins University

People needed

341

Starts

2009-12-01

Expected to finish

2016-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-03-06

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital

You may not qualify if…

• Pregnant women
• Patients under the age of 18
• adults lacking ability to consent,
• patients scheduled for laparoscopic whipple surgery
• non-english-speakers, and
• prisoners

Where it is running

• Johns Hopkins Hospital — Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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