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TIPS Versus Portacaval Shunt for Acute Bleeding Varices in Cirrhosis

NCT00734227 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 153

Last updated 2008-08-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

In unselected cirrhotic patients with acute portal hypertension-related bleeding to compare the effectiveness in control of bleeding, mortality rate, duration of life, quality of life, and economic costs of two widely used treatment measures: (1) emergency transjugular intrahepatic portal-systemic shunt (TIPS), and (2) emergency portacaval shunt.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Emergency portacaval shunt

OTHER

Emergency TIPS

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Marshall J. Orloff, M.D. · UCSD Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
1996-07-31
Primary Completion
2003-10-31
Completion
2006-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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