Prospective Study on Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) Celiac Bloc Efficacy in Chronic Pancreatitis

• Status: Terminated
• Trial end date: 2019-06-14
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if celiac bloc (with injection of steroid and local anesthetic) is superior to a sham procedure for pain control and quality of life improvement in patient with chronic pancreatitis and abdominal pain.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM)
• Collaborators: Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal; Erasme University Hospital
• Treatments: Bupivacaine; Triamcinolone; Triamcinolone Acetonide; Triamcinolone diacetate; Triamcinolone hexacetonide

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• abdominal pain compatible with pancreatic ethiology since at least 3 months

• chronic pancreatitis on Computed Tomography (CT), Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) or EUS

• EUS feasible

• inform consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• pregnant women

• allergy to local anesthetic

• acute pancreatitis in the last 2 weeks

• suspicious lesion on pancreatic EUS examination

• celiac bloc in the last 3 months