Clinical trials: Surgery Site Fistula
Pancreas Cancer, Pancreas Disease
Intra-operative Application of HEMOPATCH to the Pancreatic Stump to Prevent Post-operative Pancreatic Fistula Following Distal Pancreatectomy
Despite improvements and advances in pancreas surgery, about 30-35% of patients who have pancreas surgery develop a type of complication called a pancreatic fistula.
- Conditions
- Pancreas Cancer, Pancreas Disease, Pancreas Adenocarcinoma, Pancreas; Fistula
- Trial name
- PATCH-DP (NCT03410914)
- Testing
- Hemopatch
- Where
- 7 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 52 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre