Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Endoscopic Ultrasound Guided Celiac Plexus Block for Treatment of Pain in Chronic Pancreatitis
CompletedNot applicableNCT03070210
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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)
AIM: To compare pain relief in patients randomly assigned to endoscopic ultrasound-guided celiac ganglia block (EUS-CGB) vs standard endoscopic ultrasound-guided celiac plexus block (EUS-CPB). METHODS: This is a single-center, double-blind, randomized parallel-group study to assess the efficacy of EUS-CPB vs. EUS-CGB in patients with painful chronic pancreatitis.
Study details
- Official title
- A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Endoscopic Ultrasound Guided Celiac Plexus Blockade (EUS-CPB) With Standard Plexus Injection vs. Direct Celiac Ganglia Block for Treatment of Pain in Chronic Pancreatitis.
- Conditions
- Pancreatitis, Chronic
- Abdominal Pain
- Interventions
- Procedure: EUS-celiac ganglia block (EUS-CGB)
- Procedure: EUS-celiac plexus block (EUS-CPB)
- Sponsor
- The Cleveland Clinic
- Start date
- 2017-01-25
- Primary completion
- 2019-08-01
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * patients with chronic pancreatitis and referred for EUS-guided celiac plexus block with: age\>18 yrs, ability for informed consent, chronic daily pancreatic-type abdominal pain. Exclusion Criteria: * pregnancy, malignancy, recent acute pancreatitis (within 2 months), elevated INR (\>1.5) or low platelet count (\<75 cells/mm3), allergy to eggs or "caine" anesthetics.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03070210