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Suspended Overlength Biliary Stents Preventing Duodenobiliary Reflux in Patients With Biliary Stricture

P

Peking University

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Bile Duct Stricture

Treatments

Procedure: ordinary plastic biliary stents
Procedure: 26cm suspended overlength biliary stents
Procedure: 30cm suspended overlength biliary stents

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03310554
M2017187

Details and patient eligibility

About

Endoscopic insertion of plastic or metal stents in bile duct under endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography is a well established treatment of distal malignant biliary obstruction.Biliary stents are widely used to relieve symptoms of malignant biliary stricture.Now, the mainly used biliary stents include plastic and metal stents. The main limitation of long time plastic stents is stents occlusion. Biliary plastic stents are changed every 2 to 3 months due to an expected median patency from 77 to 126 days.Metal stents present a lower risk of recurring biliary occlusion, yet high cost and stents occlusion are eventually inevitable. The mechanism of biliary stents occlusion include biliary sluge of the accumulation of bacteria and duodenal biliary reflux .The anti-reflux barrier of Oddi's sphincter disappears after the insertion of biliary stents and the presure in bile duct lowers the duodenals, which cause the retrograde flow of duodenal material into the biliary ducts. Besides, ordinary biliary plastic stent is short which can also shortens the length of duodenal biliary reflux . Therefore, trying to prevent the duodenal biliary reflux is very important in reducing biliary stents occlusion and it is gradually concerned by clinical researchers. Some studies have showed that plastic stents with antireflux valves can effectively reduce the biliary stent stricture and prolong the stents patency, which means reducing duodenobiliary reflux is surely useful for keeping biliary stent patency.So,we assume to explore an innovatively suspended overlength biliary stents (made from nasobiliary tube with length of 26cm or 30cm) as substitution for ordinary biliary plastic stent to prevent the duodenobiliary reflux by extending the length of duodenal content reflux and avoid the stents shift via suspending in intrahepatic duct. In this study,we will design a randomized controlled trial to compare the patency of different length of suspended overlength biliary stents and ordinary plastic biliary stents in patients with distal malignant biliary obstruction to evaluate the effect and safety of suspended overlength biliary stents for the prevention of duodenobiliary reflux and the effect of different length of the stents.

Full description

Endoscopic insertion of plastic or metal stents in bile duct under endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography is a well established treatment of distal malignant biliary obstruction.Biliary stents are widely used to relieve symptoms of malignant biliary stricture.Now, the mainly used biliary stents include plastic and metal stents. The main limitation of long time plastic stents is stents occlusion. Biliary plastic stents are changed every 2 to 3 months due to an expected median patency from 77 to 126 days.Metal stents present a lower risk of recurring biliary occlusion, yet high cost and stents occlusion are eventually inevitable. The mechanism of biliary stents occlusion include biliary sluge of the accumulation of bacteria and duodenal biliary reflux .The anti-reflux barrier of Oddi's sphincter disappears after the insertion of biliary stents and the presure in bile duct lowers the duodenals, which cause the retrograde flow of duodenal material into the biliary ducts. Besides, ordinary biliary plastic stent is short which can also shortens the length of duodenal biliary reflux . Therefore, trying to prevent the duodenal biliary reflux is very important in reducing biliary stents occlusion and it is gradually concerned by clinical researchers. Some studies have showed that plastic stents with antireflux valves can effectively reduce the biliary stent stricture and prolong the stents patency, which means reducing duodenobiliary reflux is surely useful for keeping biliary stent patency .So,we assume to explore an innovatively suspended overlength biliary stents (made from nasobiliary tube with length of 26cm or 30cm) as substitution for ordinary biliary plastic stent to prevent the duodenobiliary reflux by extending the length of duodenal content reflux and avoid the stents shift via suspending in intrahepatic duct. In this study,we will design a randomized controlled trial to compare the patency of different length of suspended overlength biliary stents and ordinary plastic biliary stents in patients with distal malignant biliary obstruction to evaluate the effect and safety of suspended overlength biliary stents for the prevention of duodenobiliary reflux and the effect of different length of the stents.

The investigators will recruit patients according to admission criteria and exclusion criteria. Eligible patients with distal malignant biliary obstruction will be randomly divided into 26cm suspended overlength biliary stents group (experimental group) 、30cm suspended overlength biliary stents group (experimental group) and ordinary plastic biliary stents group (control group).The test groups will be placed the 26cm or 30cm suspended overlength biliary stents in introhepatic bile duct in ERCP. The control group will be placed ordinary plastic biliary stents in ERCP. The primary endpoint is the duration of stent patency and the rate of stent occlusion.The secondary outcomes include the mortality of each group, adverse events and the rate of technical success.

Enrollment

117 estimated patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Unresectable extrahepatic malignant biliary stricture,available for insertion of biliary stents in ERCP to alleviate biliary stricture.

Exclusion criteria

  1. Patients agree with metal biliary stents;
  2. Patients with biliary stricture need double or multiple stents inserted;
  3. Patients with previous surgical drainage procedure;
  4. Patients with resectable biliary occlusion;
  5. A guidewire could not be passed through the stricture;
  6. Patients with duodenal obstruction and duodenal endoscopy could not be reached to papillary.;
  7. Patients with any contraindication to endoscopic procedures or refuse informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose

Prevention

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

117 participants in 3 patient groups

26cm suspended overlength biliary stents group
Experimental group
Treatment:
Procedure: 26cm suspended overlength biliary stents
30cm suspended overlength biliary stents group
Experimental group
Treatment:
Procedure: 30cm suspended overlength biliary stents
ordinary plastic biliary stents group
Other group
Treatment:
Procedure: ordinary plastic biliary stents

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Yonghui Huang, archiater

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