CPB Versus Sham Treatment for Pain Management in Small Duct Chronic Pancreatitis
CompletedNot applicableNCT02054910
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
This study assesses the pain response to Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) guided Celiac Plexus Block (CPB) treatment in comparison to EUS without a pain block administered. All participants will receive medications for pain as needed.
Study details
- Official title
- Randomized Single Blinded Control Trial Comparing EUS Guided Celiac Plexus Block (CPB) Versus Sham Treatment for Pain Management in Small Duct Chronic Pancreatitis
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Procedure: Celiac Plexus Block
- Procedure: Sham
- Sponsor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Start date
- 2013-10
- Primary completion
- 2015-10
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 19 Years
- Results posted
- Yes, on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * All patients referred to UAB Endoscopy Unit for with known chronic pancreatitis * Patients referred to the endoscopy unit with abdominal pain with suspicion of chronic pancreatitis meeting 5 of 9 parenchymal and ductal changes (i.e. lobulations, hyperechoic stranding, hyperechoic foci, cysts, calcification, irregular duct, hyperechoic walls, side branch dilations and ductal calculi). Exclusion Criteria: * Age \<19 years * Unable to safely undergo EUS for any reason * Coagulopathy (INR \>1.6, Prothrombin Time \>18secs, Thrombocytopenia \<80,000 cells/ml) * Unable to consent * Non-English speaking patients. * Previously undergone CPB * Pregnancy and Breast feeding * Patients with ductal strictures, calcification, pancreatic ductal calculi, pseudocysts. * Previous pancreatic surgery * Previous pseudocyst drainage * Other documented causes of abdominal pain.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02054910