Liver Biopsy Using a 19 Gauge Fine Needle Biopsy Needle

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Conditions studied: Liver Biopsy

In brief

A 19 gauge FNB needle, using same technique as with 22 gauge needle, to obtain liver histological specimen in regards to core length and the number of Complete Portal Triads.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03910790

Run by

AdventHealth

People needed

0

Starts

2019-03-20

Expected to finish

2019-11-22

Last updated by the study team

2020-07-16

Who can join

Age: 19 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• All patients referred to Florida Hospital Endoscopy Unit for assessment of elevated liver tests with EUS and are found to have no obstructive lesion to explain elevation of liver tests and will not require ERCP.
• Age ≥ 19 years
• Willing to provide informed consent verbal or written.

You may not qualify if…

• Age <19 years
• Unable to safely undergo EUS for any reason
• Coagulopathy (INR >1.6, Thrombocytopenia with platelet count <50,000/ml) for subjects on anti-coagulation therapy.
• Unwilling or cognitively unable to provide informed consent verbal or written.
• Pregnancy (confirmed with Standard of Care urine pregnancy test for all women with child-bearing potential only)

Where it is running

• Center for Interventional Endoscopy - Florida Hospital — Orlando, Florida, United States

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