Attachment for esophageal dilatation

JRCT ID: jRCTs052190063

Registered date:16/10/2019

Basic Information

• Recruitment status: Complete
• Health condition(s) or Problem(s) studied: Esophageal cancer
• Date of first enrollment: 28/04/2020
• Target sample size: 20
• Study type: Interventional
• Intervention(s): Esophageal dilatation using specific attachment equipped at the tip of endoscope.

Outcome(s)

• Primary Outcome: Success rate of esophageal dilatation

Secondary Outcome

Adverse events.
Features of successful and unsuccessful cases.

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

• Age minimum: >= 20age old
• Age maximum: <= 90age old
• Gender: Both

Include criteria

1) Esophageal stricture after esophageal endoscopic treatment. Patients have stricture symptom (Dysphagia score of 2 or more).
2) Strictures are located in thoracic and/or abdominal esophagus.
3) No organ failure
4) 20 years or more, 90 years old or less
5) Written informed consent had been obtained

Exclude criteria

1) Stricture is derived from esophageal cancer itself and chemoradiotherapy.
2) Ulcer after endoscopic treatment.
3) Cancers in other organs with life expectancy of three months or less
4) Severe stricture less than 6mm
5) Inadequate case judged by investigators

Related Information

• Primary Sponsor: Ishihara Ryu