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Open vs Robotic Assisted Partial Nephrectomy (OpeRa)

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Intuitive Surgical

Status

Terminated

Conditions

Renal Cancer

Treatments

Other: Open partial nephrectomy
Device: Robotic-assisted partial nephrectomy

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Industry

Identifiers

NCT03849820
OpeRa-2018

Details and patient eligibility

About

To demonstrate that Robotic-Assisted partial nephrectomy is superior to Open partial nephrectomy in reducing the number of 30 day post-operative complications (Clavien-Dindo Type I-V) for patients with intermediate to high complexity kidney tumors.

Full description

Partial nephrectomy is the surgical removal of a kidney tumor while unaffected tissue remains intact so that the kidney function is maintained as far as possible. The more radical procedure would be the complete removal of the kidney, which is not examined in this trial.

Surgery will be randomized either to an open technique involving a large incision or the robotic assisted technique with a few small incisions (keyhole surgery). With robotic assisted surgery the movements of the surgeon are translated into the movement of the instruments.

It is not clear which of the two procedures, open or robotic assisted, has less complications. It is expected that these are different due to the different level of invasiveness and the level of direct access to the organ. This study aims to show that robotic assisted surgery results in less complications than open surgery.

Enrollment

247 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Age 18 years or older
  • Patient with a renal tumor that is a candidate for OPEN surgery and robotic assisted surgery (RAS) partial nephrectomy (PN)
  • R.E.N.A.L. score ≥ 7
  • eGFR ≥ 50 ml/min/1.73 m²
  • Anticoagulation is accepted according to the surgeon's practice

Exclusion criteria

  • Solitary kidney or functionally solitary kidney
  • Prior surgery at the affected kidney excluding endoscopic kidney stone surgery
  • Bilateral tumors
  • Multiple renal tumors requiring excision
  • Renal vein tumor thrombus
  • Likely insufficient volume of remaining parenchyma after partial nephrectomy to maintain viable kidney remnant
  • Metastatic disease with life expectancy of less than 1 year
  • Pregnancy or suspected pregnancy
  • Planned concomitant procedure
  • Subject who is unable or unwilling to comply with the protocol requirements
  • Subject considered to be from a vulnerable population according to IS0 14155:2011

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

247 participants in 2 patient groups

Robotic-assisted partial nephrectomy
Active Comparator group
Description:
da Vinci surgical robotic assisted partial nephrectomy
Treatment:
Device: Robotic-assisted partial nephrectomy
Open partial nephrectomy
Active Comparator group
Description:
Open partial nephrectomy surgery
Treatment:
Other: Open partial nephrectomy

Trial contacts and locations

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