Acute Pancreatitis and Acute Fluid Collections

University Medical Center, Tuzla

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 4

Conditions: Pancreatitis

Treatments: Procedure: Catheter drainage; Drug: Conservative treatment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00786929

MB-68/02

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate if percutaneous drainage of sterile fluid collections recurring after initial aspiration in acute pancreatitis yielded better results than their conservative management.

Enrollment: 63 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Symptoms and signs of acute pancreatitis and if pancreatic or/and peripancreatic fluid collections were confirmed by ultrasound and computed tomography examination

Exclusion criteria

• Collections resulting from pancreatic surgery, chronic pancreatitis and encapsulated collections and collections with uncertainty about the relationship between the collections and clinical symptoms and signs of acute pancreatitis were excluded.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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63 participants in 2 patient groups

drainage

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: Catheter drainage

2

Active Comparator group

Description:

Conservative treatment

Treatment:

Drug: Conservative treatment