Benefit of Laparoscopic Adhesiolysis in Patients With Chronische Abdominal Pain
CompletedPhase 4NCT02839564
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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)
Laparoscopic adhesiolysis as a therapy for chronic pain is still controversial and long term effects are not known. The objective was to to evaluate long term effects of laparoscopic adhesiolysis for treating chronic abdominal pain. Therefore one hundred patients with abdominal pain attributed to adhesions were randomized to laparoscopic adhesiolysis or a placebo group with laparoscopy alone. Pain relief was assessed after 3, 6 and 12 months and 12-year follow-up.
Study details
- Official title
- Benefit of Laparoscopic Adhesiolysis
- Conditions
- Chronic Pain
- Adhesions
- Interventions
- Procedure: Laparoscopic adhesiolysis
- Procedure: Diagnostic laparoscopy
- Sponsor
- Groene Hart Ziekenhuis
- Collaborators
- Erasmus Medical Center; Academisch Medisch Centrum - Universiteit van Amsterdam (AMC-UvA); Rijnstate Hospital; Maxima Medical Center; Catharina Ziekenhuis Eindhoven; Maasstad Hospital; Isala
- Start date
- 1997-08
- Primary completion
- 2014-01
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Total sites listed
- 0
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients aged 18 years and above with chronic abdominal pain that was likely to be caused by adhesions due to previous abdominal surgery were recruited. Before attributing abdominal pain to the existence of adhesions all patients had an extensional diagnostic work-up to exclude other pathology. Exclusion Criteria: * Current treatment by psychologist or psychiatrist * Use of laxatives, sedatives, morphine, antipsychotics, antidepressants, or drugs that stimulate the central nervous system * Abnormal outcome of standardized non-invasive diagnostics: * Biochemical investigation * Lactose tolerance tests or H2 respiration test * Feces analysis of worms and worm eggs * Ultrasound or CT scan of the abdomen * Radiographic studies of small and large bowel (or colonoscopy)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02839564