Usefulness of a balloon catheter for intraoperative cholangiography during living donor hepatectomy

JRCT ID: jRCTs062200021

Registered date:12/10/2020

Basic Information

• Recruitment status: Recruiting
• Health condition(s) or Problem(s) studied: living donor for liver transplantation
• Date of first enrollment: 23/03/2021
• Target sample size: 10
• Study type: Interventional
• Intervention(s): Intraoperative cholangiography using pediatric angiographic balloon catheter

Outcome(s)

Primary Outcome

1. The number of biliary branches detected during intraoperative cholangiographyamong all the segmental branches including caudate lobe branches.
2. Incidence of intra- and postoperative complication associated with the procedure of intraoperative cholangiography

• Secondary Outcome: Number of biliary branches of the harvested graft to be reconstructed.

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

• Age minimum: >= 20age old
• Age maximum: <= 65age old
• Gender: Both
• Include criteria: A person who becomes a living donor for liver transplantation. The inclusion criteria for living liver donor is healthy persons aged 20 to 65 years old who desire to become living liver donor.
• Exclude criteria: A person who refuses to participate in the study.

Related Information

• Primary Sponsor: Sakamoto Katsunori