CPB Versus Sham Treatment for Pain Management in Small Duct Chronic Pancreatitis

Completed · Not applicable · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Chronic Pancreatitis

In brief

This study assesses the pain response to Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) guided Celiac Plexus Block (CPB) treatment in comparison to EUS without a pain block administered. All participants will receive medications for pain as needed.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02054910

Run by

University of Alabama at Birmingham

People needed

5

Starts

2013-10-01

Expected to finish

2015-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-02-28

Who can join

Age: 19 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• All patients referred to UAB Endoscopy Unit for with known chronic pancreatitis
• Patients referred to the endoscopy unit with abdominal pain with suspicion of chronic pancreatitis meeting 5 of 9 parenchymal and ductal changes (i.e. lobulations, hyperechoic stranding, hyperechoic foci, cysts, calcification, irregular duct, hyperechoic walls, side branch dilations and ductal calculi).

You may not qualify if…

• Age <19 years
• Unable to safely undergo EUS for any reason
• Coagulopathy (INR >1.6, Prothrombin Time >18secs, Thrombocytopenia <80,000 cells/ml)
• Unable to consent
• Non-English speaking patients.
• Previously undergone CPB
• Pregnancy and Breast feeding
• Patients with ductal strictures, calcification, pancreatic ductal calculi, pseudocysts.
• Previous pancreatic surgery
• Previous pseudocyst drainage
• Other documented causes of abdominal pain.

Where it is running

• University of Alabama at Birmingham — Birmingham, Alabama, United States

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