Diagnostic Value of ICG in Endometriosis

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

This study evaluates the diagnostic value of the addition of indocyanine green and near infrared fluorescence imaging during laparoscopy in patients with suspected endometriosis.

• Phase: Early Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital Inselspital, Berne

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Informed Consent as documented by signature

• Be premenopausal (menopause is defined as amenorrhea lasting one year or longer)

• Patients should be in follicular phase

• Have chronic pelvic pain and/or Infertility and be willing to undergo planned endometriosis resection procedure.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Known or suspected allergy to iodine, shellfish, or ICG dye

• Hyperthyroidism

• Severe renal insufficiency

• Simultaneous therapy with beta-blockers

• Women who are pregnant (positive HCG in the blood) or breast feeding

• Intention to become pregnant during the course of the study

• Inability to follow the procedures of the study (due to language problems, psychological disorders, dementia)

• Active pelvic infection (positive vaginal or cervical smears for bacteria or elevated markers of infection in the blood)

• Previous history of radiation therapy of the pelvis

• Presence of medical conditions contraindicating general anesthesia or standard laparoscopic surgery