Status:

TERMINATED

Self-Propelled Versus Standard Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrojejunostomy(PEG-J); RCT

Lead Sponsor:

Johns Hopkins University

Conditions:

Feeding Tube

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-80 years

Phase:

PHASE2

Brief Summary

Our main hypothesis is that self-propelled Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrojejunostomy tube (PEG-J) that has a balloon on it's tip is associated with lower J-tube retrograde migration rate, and lower ra...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Consecutive adult patients (18-80 years of age) with need for post-pyloric feeding (patients unable to eat due to stroke, intubated patients with respiratory failure, patients with acute pancreatitis, etc).
  • Ability to give informed consent.

Exclusion

  • Unable to give informed consent
  • Pregnant or breastfeeding women (all women of child-bearing age will undergo urine pregnancy testing)
  • Acute gastrointestinal bleeding
  • Coagulopathy defined by prothrombin time \< 50% of control; PTT \> 50 sec, or INR \> 1.5), on chronic anticoagulation, or platelet count \<50,000
  • Inability to tolerate sedated upper endoscopy due to cardio-pulmonary instability or other contraindication to endoscopy
  • Cirrhosis with portal hypertension, varices, and/or ascites
  • Allergy to egg

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

September 6 2013

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

December 1 2014

Estimated Enrollment :

19 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT01892267

Start Date

September 6 2013

End Date

December 1 2014

Last Update

May 17 2017

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Johns Hopkins Hospital

Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21205