Fluorescence Cholangiography During Cholecystectomy - a RCT

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2018-08-27
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The primary objective is to compare the success rates of intraoperative fluorescent cholangiography using indocyanine green versus conventional X-ray cholangiography for the identification of bile duct anatomy during laparoscopic cholecystectomy for complicated gallstone disease in a randomized design with 120 patients.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Hvidovre University Hospital

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient scheduled for planned laparoscopic cholecystectomy by one surgeon

• Complicated gallstone disease

Exclusion Criteria:

• Open cholecystectomy

• Allergy towards iodine, urografin or indocyanine green

• Liver or renal insufficiency

• Thyrotoxicosis

• Pregnancy or lactation

• Legally incompetent for any reason

• Withdrawal of inclusion consent at any time