Achieving Portal Access With Scorpion Post-Approval Study 2 (APASS2)

Argon Medical Devices

Status: Completed

Conditions: Portal Hypertension; Vascular Diseases; Hydrothorax; Ascites Hepatic; Liver Diseases

Treatments: Device: Scorpion Portal Vein Access Kit

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT06856655

SCPVA02

Details and patient eligibility

About

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. The purpose of this study is to evaluate portal vein access sets during the TIPS procedure.

Enrollment: 82 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Scorpion or Scorpion X kit introduced into the vasculature as the initial device for portal vein access

Exclusion criteria

1. TIPS procedure was not initiated and/or no portion of the kit was introduced into the vasculature
2. Inaccessible medical records

Trial design