Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT01468779
Effect of Probiotics in Patients Undergoing Surgery for Periampullary Neoplasms
Effect of the Probiotics Use in Patients Undergoing Surgery for Periampullary Neoplasia - A Randomized Clinical Trial
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- Phase 3
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 58 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of the probiotic use in patients with periampullary cancers undergone curative or palliative treatment considering nutritional status, postoperative complications, infection rate, length of hospitalization and mortality.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT | Probiotics | The probiotics pills are given orally in the amount of two pills twice a day as early as two days before surgery until ten days after surgery. |
| DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT | Sugar pill |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2010-02-01
- Primary completion
- 2011-12-01
- Completion
- 2012-04-01
- First posted
- 2011-11-09
- Last updated
- 2017-03-03
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Brazil
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01468779. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.