NCT01546064

Study to Establish Whether the Use of T-Tube in Bile Duct Anastomosis in Liver Transplantation Decreases Morbidity

Prospective and Randomized Trial on the Usefulness of T-Tube in the Bile Duct Anastomosis in Liver Transplantation Procedure.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital Universitario La Fe · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 67 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study was to compare the incidence and severity of biliary complications due to liver transplantation after choledochocholedochostomy with or without a T-tube. A per-protocol analysis was designed for recipients of orthotopic liver transplantation in a single center, who were randomly assigned to choledochocholedochostomy with or without a T-tube. It is a prospective and randomized study.

Conditions

• Evidence of Liver Transplantation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Choledocho-choledochostomy with T-tube	In the anastomosis between the common bile duct of the graft and the common bile duct of the recipient, a tutorial T-tube is inserted in the bile duct lumen and will be removed from the patient on third month postoperatively.
DEVICE	Choledocho-choledochostomy without T-tube	The termino-terminal anastomosis between common bile duct of the graft and common bile duct of the recipient is performed without any T-tube.

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-05-01
• Primary completion: 2010-07-01
• Completion: 2011-07-01
• First posted: 2012-03-07
• Last updated: 2012-03-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain