Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Endoscopic Ultrasound Guided Celiac Plexus Block for Treatment of Pain in Chronic Pancreatitis

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Conditions studied: Pancreatitis, Chronic, Abdominal Pain

In brief

AIM: To compare pain relief in patients randomly assigned to endoscopic ultrasound-guided celiac ganglia block (EUS-CGB) vs standard endoscopic ultrasound-guided celiac plexus block (EUS-CPB). METHODS: This is a single-center, double-blind, randomized parallel-group study to assess the efficacy of EUS-CPB vs. EUS-CGB in patients with painful chronic pancreatitis.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03070210

Run by

The Cleveland Clinic

People needed

29

Starts

2017-01-25

Expected to finish

2019-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2020-04-17

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• patients with chronic pancreatitis and referred for EUS-guided celiac plexus block with: age>18 yrs, ability for informed consent, chronic daily pancreatic-type abdominal pain.

You may not qualify if…

• pregnancy, malignancy, recent acute pancreatitis (within 2 months), elevated INR (>1.5) or low platelet count (<75 cells/mm3), allergy to eggs or "caine" anesthetics.

Where it is running

• Cleveland Clinic Main Campus — Cleveland, Ohio, United States

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