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Use of Touch and no Touch Guide-wire Techniques for Deep Biliary Cannulation: the TNT Study

NCT01954602 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 206

Last updated 2017-03-28

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The specific goal of this study is to compare the deep biliary cannulation rate and complication rates associated with use of touch and no touch guide-wire biliary cannulation techniques.

Conditions

  • Biliary Tract Diseases

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Guide-wire cannulation

Direct guide-wire hovering a few millimeters through the catheter or sphincterotome

PROCEDURE

Sphincterotome assisted guide-wire cannulation

Sphincterotome is inserted initially a few millimeters through the papillary orifice

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Catania Hospital Gastroenterology

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Niguarda Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • Azienda Usl di Bologna

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Elio Jovine, MD · AUSL Bologna

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-07-31
Primary Completion
2015-03-31
Completion
2015-04-30

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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