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Endoscopic ultrasound-guided portosystemic pressure gradient measurement vs. transjugular balloon occlusion measurement in patients with cirrhosis (ENCOUNTER): A bicentric EU study. JHEP Rep. 2025 May 29;7(8):101466. doi: 10.1016/j.jhepr.2025.101466. eCollection 2025 Aug.'}]}, 'descriptionModule': {'briefSummary': 'The objective of this study is to evaluate the correlation of the calculated portosystemic pressure gradient (PPG) obtained by direct portal and hepatic pressure measurements with the EchoTip® Insight™ and indirect portal vein pressure measurements using the interventional radiology based hepatic venous pressure gradient (HVPG) procedure.'}, 'eligibilityModule': {'sex': 'ALL', 'stdAges': ['ADULT', 'OLDER_ADULT'], 'maximumAge': '85 Years', 'minimumAge': '18 Years', 'samplingMethod': 'NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE', 'studyPopulation': 'Patients with cirrhosis who have been referred for a HVPG procedure.', 'healthyVolunteers': False, 'eligibilityCriteria': 'Inclusion Criteria:\n\n* Patients with cirrhosis who have been referred for a procedure where HVPG is obtained.\n\nExclusion Criteria:\n\n* Patient is pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to become pregnant during the course of the study\n* Patient is unwilling or unable to sign and date the informed consent\n* Patient is unwilling to comply with the follow-up study schedule\n* Previous total or partial splenectomy\n* Non-cirrhotic portal hypertension\n* Known history of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) within the last three months irrespective of treatment for SBP\n* Patients with known infection which is not controlled by medical intervention\n* Portopulmonary hypertension\n* Cardiac decompensation\n* Pre-sinusoidal liver disease\n* Cholestatic liver disease\n* Patient who received endoscopic treatment for upper gastrointestinal (GI) variceal bleeding within the past 7 days\n* Patients with current hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)'}, 'identificationModule': {'nctId': 'NCT04987034', 'briefTitle': 'Comparing a Direct Versus an Indirect Approach to Measuring the Portalsytemic Pressure Gradients', 'organization': {'class': 'INDUSTRY', 'fullName': 'Cook Group Incorporated'}, 'officialTitle': 'Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Portosystemic Pressure Gradient Measurements vs. Transjugular Balloon Occlusion Measurement: A Multicenter EU Study', 'orgStudyIdInfo': {'id': '16-11'}}, 'armsInterventionsModule': {'armGroups': [{'label': 'Direct and indirect PPG measurements', 'description': 'Measuring the portalsystemic pressure gradient in patients directly using the EchoTip® Insight™ and indirectly through the HVPG procedure.', 'interventionNames': ['Device: EchoTip® Insight™']}], 'interventions': [{'name': 'EchoTip® Insight™', 'type': 'DEVICE', 'description': 'Patients will undergo procedure where HVPG is obtained under mild sedation, next the patients will undergo anesthesia and mechanical intubation where HVPG measurements will be obtained simultaneously with the EchoTip Insight measurement. For patients receiving a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS), direct portal vein pressure measurements will be obtained by the EchoTip® Insight™ and compared to the transjugular direct portal vein measurement obtained during the interventional radiology (IR) procedure.', 'armGroupLabels': ['Direct and indirect PPG measurements']}]}, 'contactsLocationsModule': {'locations': [{'zip': '3000', 'city': 'Leuven', 'country': 'Belgium', 'facility': 'University Hospitals Leuven', 'geoPoint': {'lat': 50.87959, 'lon': 4.70093}}, {'zip': 'NL-3015 CE', 'city': 'Rotterdam', 'country': 'Netherlands', 'facility': 'Erasmus University Medical Center', 'geoPoint': {'lat': 51.9225, 'lon': 4.47917}}, {'zip': '08036', 'city': 'Barcelona', 'country': 'Spain', 'facility': 'Hospital Clinic, Barcelona', 'geoPoint': {'lat': 41.38879, 'lon': 2.15899}}], 'overallOfficials': [{'name': 'Schalk Van der Merwe, Prof', 'role': 'PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR', 'affiliation': 'Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine'}]}, 'ipdSharingStatementModule': {'ipdSharing': 'UNDECIDED', 'description': 'Cook Research Incorporated (CRI) is fully committed to supporting the principles of responsible data sharing, including providing qualified scientific researchers access to deidentified, patient-level data from CRI clinical studies to conduct legitimate scientific research. Data underlying the results reported in this clinical study will be made available for request after final report has been distributed and ending 5 years after final report has been distributed. Interested researchers may review the "Cook Research Incorporated Policy on Access to Clinical Study Data" at https://www.cookresearchinc.com/extranet/data-access.html and submit a complete research proposal to request data access. Additional study documents (such as the study protocol) will be shared as needed if the data access request is granted. A data sharing agreement will be executed for access to deidentified patient-level data.'}, 'sponsorCollaboratorsModule': {'leadSponsor': {'name': 'Cook Research Incorporated', 'class': 'INDUSTRY'}, 'responsibleParty': {'type': 'SPONSOR'}}}}