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Enteral Nutrition in Acute Pancreatitis

NCT01965873 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 214

Last updated 2015-04-03

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Summary

The purpose of this prospective randomised clinical trial is to compare beneficial and harmful effects of the use enteral nutrition versus a nil-by-mouth and intravenous fluid replacement principle of treatment in patients with moderate to severe acute pancreatitis (AP).

The hypothesis:

* enteral nutrition is no significantly better compared with the nil-by-mouth principle regarding mortality, incidence of local and systemic complications, length of hospital stay, and intensity of the inflammatory response in patients with moderate to severe AP
* enteral nutrition has the same safety as nil-by-mouth principle in patients with moderate to severe AP

Conditions

Interventions

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Enteral nutrition

Same as arm description

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital Rijeka

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Davor Štimac, MD, PhD · Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital Rijeka

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-05-31
Primary Completion
2012-06-30
Completion
2012-06-30

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