Description Module
The Description Module contains narrative descriptions of the clinical trial, including a brief summary and detailed description. These descriptions provide important information about the study's purpose, methodology, and key details in language accessible to both researchers and the general public.
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Description Module
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2025-12-25 @ 5:06 AM
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2025-12-25 @ 5:06 AM
NCT ID:
NCT03530527
Brief Summary:
Biliary drainage is the mainstay of the palliative treatment in patients with inoperable malignant bile duct stricture. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is the cornerstone of biliary drainage method in these patients. However, ERCP is sometime unsuccessful to perform because of the presence of the high grade biliary stricture, tumor invasion of duodenum and ampulla of vater and surgically altered gastrointestinal anatomy. Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) guided biliary drainage has been emerged as an alternative procedure to traditional surgical bypass and percutaneous trans hepatic biliary drainage after failed ERCP. There were few data to directly compare between ERCP and EUS guided biliary drainage and in patients with malignant high grade biliary stricture.
Detailed Description:
The aim of this study is comparing the efficacy and complications between ERCP and EUS guided biliary drainage in patients with malignant high grade biliary stricture. Malignant high grade biliary stricture has not been well defined. The investigators define this malignant high grade biliary stricture using these arbitrary number include total bilirubin ≥ 15 mg/dl and or bile duct diameter ≥12 mm. based on the investigation's experience.
The study will be divided patients with inoperable malignant high grade biliary stricture into 2 groups, group (A) will be undergone ERCP with biliary stenting and group (B) will be undergone EUS guided biliary drainage. If the assigned intervention is not successful, then patients will be crossed-over to the another intervention.
Study:
NCT03530527
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT03530527