NCT00957619

Study of the Protective Effect of Mechanism of Pentoxyfilline After Major Liver Resection Under Inflow Occlusion (Pringle Manoeuvre)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Zurich · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The investigators hypothecate that pentoxyfilline increase significantly the liver regeneration and reduces significantly ischemia and reperfusion (I/R) injury in major liver using aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) as marker of I/R injury.

Detailed description

Liver resection is for many patients with primary or secondary hepatic malignancies the only curative treatment option. Often, the complete clearance of the hepatic tumor disease can be only achieved by extended liver resections. Clinical studies have demonstrated that intra-operative blood loss is associated reduced outcome after major liver resection. An effective strategy to reduce blood loss is the occlusion of the portal triad (Pringle manoeuvre). On the other hand, inflow occlusion results in ischemia- and reperfusion (I/R) injury. Randomized trials have shown that ischemic preconditioning (10 min clamping, 10 min reperfusion) and intermittent clamping (15 min clamping, 5 min reperfusion) result in reduction of the I/R injury. Another potential strategy to reduce I/R injury is the pharmacological protection. One promising drug is pentoxyfilline (PTF) which has vasodilative and hemorheologic effects. Furthermore, PTF suppresses the TNF release. These effects may be also protective in major liver resection under inflow occlusion (Pringle manoeuvre)and increase the liver regeneration. Therefore, we designed a randomised prospective trial to investigate the effects of PTF treatment in liver resection under inflow occlusion. The specific aims of the research project are:The investigators hypothecate that pentoxyfilline increases significantly the liver regeneration and reduces significantly ischemia and reperfusion (I/R) injury in liver using aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) as marker of I/R injury.

Conditions

• Liver Regeneration

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	pentoxyfilline	The total dose of 1 mg/kg/h will be used. At the preoperative day half of the daily dose will be given as a 4-hour short-term infusion within 24 hours before surgery. Afterwards, a continuous intravenous infusion of PTX 1 mg/kg of body weight per hour will be started intra-operatively and will be continued for a total of 72 hours after surgery.
DRUG	Placebo	This group will be treated with saline solution at the same time points. The infusion volume and infusion rate of saline solution correspond to that of the PTF group.

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-03-01
• Primary completion: 2010-01-01
• Completion: 2010-01-01
• First posted: 2009-08-12
• Last updated: 2015-02-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland