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Thoracoscopic Mesh Repair of Diaphragmatic Defects for Hepatic Hydrothorax

NCT02508688 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 63

Last updated 2015-07-29

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The management of refractory hepatic hydrothorax is challenging and usually unsuccessful. The study will discuss the perioperative treatment, effectiveness, and morphology of diaphragmatic defects of hepatic hydrothorax in thoracoscopic mesh repair. Risk factors associated with increased three-month mortality in these critically ill patients will be studied.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

thoracoscopic diaphragmatic repair

patients with refractory hepatic hydrothorax (\> 3 times thoracentesis and failure to maximal doses of diuretics) who underwent thoracoscopic diaphragmatic repair

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Taiwan University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Pei-Ming Huang, MD, PhD · Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-01-31
Primary Completion
2014-12-31
Completion
2015-06-30

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