Clinical trial for effectiveness and safety of percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder aspiration in patients with acute cholecystitis

UMIN ID: UMIN000002052

Registered date:10/06/2009

Basic Information

• Recruitment status: Complete: follow-up complete
• Health condition(s) or Problem(s) studied: Acute cholecystitis
• Date of first enrollment: 2007/12/01
• Target sample size: 78
• Countries of recruitment: Japan
• Study type: Interventional

Intervention(s)

percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder aspiration
conservative therapy

Outcome(s)

• Primary Outcome: Improvement of right hypochondralgia at the 24-hour and/or 72-hour treatment
• Secondary Outcome: treatment period safety

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

• Age minimum: 20years-old
• Age maximum: Not applicable
• Gender: Male and Female
• Exclude criteria: 1) Patients with choledocholithiasis 2) Patients with acalculous cholecystitis 3) Patients with moderate or severe cholecystitis 4) Patients whom symptoms are improving 5) Patients with serious complications 6) Patients with other infectious disease 7) Patients with suspected gallbladder cancer 8) Patients with the bleeding tendency 9) Patients receiving anticoagulants 10) Patients with previous history of antibiotic hypersensitivity 11) Patients with the pregnancy or the pregnant likelihood 12) Inappropriate patients for entry on this study by the judgment of the investigators

Related Information

• Primary Sponsor: Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine
• Source(s) of Monetary Support: Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University