Radiation Exposure in Spine Intervention Under Angiography

Seoul National University

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Low Back Pain

Treatments: Radiation: Epidural steroid injection

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01751958

B-1105/128-014

Details and patient eligibility

About

Evaluate radiation exposure and procedure times for continuous fluoroscopic monitoring during lumbar ESI

Full description

The purpose of this prospective study was to evaluate radiation exposure and procedure times for fluoroscopic monitoring during lumbar ESI with analyzing the differences among operators (experienced staff and trainee) and among different method for ESI.

Enrollment: 1,000 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Suspected of having radiculopathic low back pain

Exclusion criteria

• Angiography is contraindicated

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,000 participants in 2 patient groups

Epidural Steroid injection

Experimental group

Description:

Group-Epidural Steroid injection (Intermittent)

Treatment:

Radiation: Epidural steroid injection

Epidural Steroid Injection2

Experimental group

Description:

Group-injection under angiography (continuous)

Treatment:

Radiation: Epidural steroid injection