Clinical trials: Hydrothorax
Portal Hypertension, Liver Diseases
Achieving Portal Access With Scorpion Post-Approval Study (APASS)
Creation of the parenchymal tract between the portal vein and the hepatic vein is the most difficult and time consuming step in a TIPS procedure.
- Conditions
- Portal Hypertension, Liver Diseases, Ascites Hepatic, Hydrothorax
- Trial name
- NCT05765253
- Testing
- Scorpion Portal Vein Access Kit, Cook Transjugular Liver Access Set, Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt (TIPS)
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 3 people
- Sponsor
- Argon Medical Devices
Pleural Effusion
Catheter Placement for Hepatic Hydrothorax
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of an indwelling tunneled pleural catheter (ITPC) in the management of hepatic hydrothorax that is not responsive to conventional medical therapy.
- Trial name
- NCT02595567
- Testing
- Indwelling tunneled pleural catheter (ITPC)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 25 people
- Sponsor
- Washington University School of Medicine