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Study NCT ID: NCT01283802
Status: COMPLETED
Last Update Posted: 2011-01-26
First Post: 2011-01-24
Is NOT Gene Therapy: False
Has Adverse Events: False

Brief Title: Intraoperative Cholangio-Ultrasound in Resective Liver Surgery
Sponsor: University of Milan
Organization:

Study Overview

Official Title: More Than 400 Hepatectomies Without Intraoperative Cholangiography: Prospective Validation of the Role of Ultrasound
Status: COMPLETED
Status Verified Date: 2010-06
Last Known Status: None
Delayed Posting: No
If Stopped, Why?: Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access: False
If Expanded Access, NCT#: N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status: N/A
Acronym: IOCUS
Brief Summary: Liver surgery should be considered an echo-guided procedure to guarantee conservative but radical resections. The investigators describe a further application of intraoperative ultrasonography (IOUS) for studying the biliary tree during liver surgery with no need for formal cholangiography.
Detailed Description: Intraoperative ultrasonography (IOUS) in liver surgery is widely accepted as a fundamental tool for radical and safe hepatectomy \[1\]. New technical improvements of IOUS have been reported in recent years both for tumor characterization and staging \[2\] and for resection guidance \[3-5\]. However, intraoperative cholangiography (IOC) still represents the gold standard for studying the biliary tract anatomy as well as for guiding reconstruction in case of bile duct resection and, moreover, with the advent of living donation it is the standard reference for validating preoperative imaging \[6\]. Conversely, it could be affirmed that IOUS in this sense has no role, if not for guiding intraoperative dilated bile duct drainage \[7\]. Nevertheless, IOC has not negligible costs, it implies the use of x-ray, iodated contrast agents and is time consuming.

Herein is proposed a technique for bile duct exploration by means of intraoperative cholangio-ultrasound (IOCUS) validated on a consecutive series of patients undergoing liver resection.

1. Machi J, Oishi AJ, Furumoto NL, Oishi RH (2004). Intraoperative ultrasound. Surg Clin North Am, 84(4): 1085-111
2. Minagawa M, Makuuchi M, Takayama T, Ohtomo K (2001). Selection criteria for hepatectomy in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma and portal vein tumor thrombus. Ann Surg, 233(3): 379-84
3. Torzilli G, Del Fabbro D, Olivari N, Calliada F, Montorsi M, Makuuchi M (2004). Contrast-enhanced intraoperative ultrasonography during liver surgery. Br J Surg, 91(9): 1165-7
4. Torzilli G, Makuuchi M. Ultrasound-guided finger compression in liver subsegmentectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma (2004). Surg Endosc, 18(1):136-9
5. Torzilli G, Takayama T, Hui AM, Kubota K, Harihara Y, Makuuchi M (1999). A new technical aspect of ultrasound-guided liver surgery. Am J Surg, 178(4): 341-3
6. Lee VS, Krinsky GA, Nazzaro CA, Chang JS, Babb JS, Lin JC, Morgan GR, Teperman LW. Defining intrahepatic biliary anatomy in living liver transplant donor candidates at mangafodipir trisodium-enhanced MR cholangiography versus conventional T2-weighted MR cholangiography. Radiology, 2004; 233(3): 659-66
7. Torzilli G, Makuuchi M, Komatsu Y, Noie T, Abe H, Kobayashi T, Kubota K, Takayama T. US guided biliary drainage during hepatopancreatico-jejunostomy for diffuse bile duct carcinoma. Hepatogastroenterology. 1999; 46(26): 863-6.

Study Oversight

Has Oversight DMC: False
Is a FDA Regulated Drug?: None
Is a FDA Regulated Device?: None
Is an Unapproved Device?: None
Is a PPSD?: None
Is a US Export?: None
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