Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) Features of Chronic Pancreatitis

Indiana University

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Chronic Pancreatitis

Treatments: Other: chronic pancreatitis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01442454

1008-15

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to correlate Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) criteria for chronic pancreatitis with surgical pathology.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Patients who are eligible are individuals who have:

• normal pancreas
• suspected chronic pancreatitis
• established chronic pancreatitis (by ERCP, MRI, previous EUS, CT)
• pancreatic cancer

Patients who are not eligible are individuals who have:

• an uncorrectable coagulopathy (platelet <50,000, INR>1.5), or bleeding disorder, or are unable to discontinue anticoagulation 5-7 days prior to EUS (aspirin and bridging therapy with lovenox are allowed, clopidogrel is not allowed)

Trial design

100 participants in 1 patient group

Chronic Pancreatitis

Treatment:

Other: chronic pancreatitis