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Comfort Subcutaneous Drainage: a Descriptive Study Among Palliative Phase Cancer Patients

NCT02494115 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 24

Last updated 2023-11-18

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Summary

Physical embarrassment, pain and psychological impact linked to the body image distortion are often associated to these lymphedemas. Investigators decided to study new therapeutic method because of major discomfort due to these oedemas and doctors' difficulty to manage them.

Subcutaneous drainage also called lymphocentesis seems to be an interesting technique. This local treatment consists in inserting in lower limbs several catheters draining into enclosed bags in order to evacuate lymph fluid and to lower local pressure.

Very few studies have been published concerning this technique and are presenting only a small number of cases. They cannot allow clear conclusions of this technique's efficiency but show encouraging results.

Investigators want to collect more data on this technique using a larger number of subjects in order to evaluate subcutaneous drainage effects on the comfort of palliative care cancer patients presenting lower limbs lymphedema. Investigators will consider as lymphedema, oedemas with no renal or cardiovascular identified cause and excluding anasarca.

Conditions

  • Lymphedema

Interventions

PROCEDURE

subcutaneous drainage

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-01-06
Primary Completion
2018-09-15
Completion
2018-09-15

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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