CompletedNot Applicable

Plastic Stent Within a Lumen-Apposing Stent for Malignant Biliary Obstruction

Spain39 participantsStarted 2015-05

Plain-language summary

There are doubts concerning the possible benefits derived from the insertion of double-pigtail plastic stents (DPS) within the lumen-apposing metal stents (LAMS) in the EUS-guided transmural biliary drainage (BD). The aims was to evaluate the safety of LAMS with and without a coaxial DPS in EUS-BD for the palliative management in malignant biliary obstruction.

Who can participate

Age range18 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * Consecutive unresectable/inoperable biliopancreatic cases with distal biliary obstruction who underwent EUS-BD after failed ERCP cannulation or inaccessible papilla Exclusion Criteria: * Borderline cancer cases * Others type of biliary stents * Severe coagulopathy or thrombocytopenia.

What they're measuring

Potential benefits

Timeframe: 4 weeks

Trial details

NCT IDNCT04420039

SponsorHospital Universitari de Bellvitge

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeOBSERVATIONAL

Primary completion2020-09

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