NCT03867630

The Effect of Additional Transforaminal Epidural Blocks in Percutaneous Epidural Neuroplasty

The Effect of Additional Transforaminal Epidural Blocks in Percutaneous Epidural Neuroplasty With Wire Type Catheter in Lumbar Foraminal Stenosis Patients

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Ajou University School of Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

Percutaneous epidural neuroplasty (PEN) is an effective interventional treatment for radicular pain. But in some cases with wire catheter like Racz catheter, contrast runoffs were not shown to the foramen. This study will show that contrast runoff will affect the results of PEN and in cases which contrast runoff are not shown, additional transforaminal epidural blocks will affect the results of PEN by reviewing medical record, retrospectively.

Detailed description

Medical records will be investigated in cases of PEN with wire type catheter from May 2016 to August 2018. About one hundred cases will be enrolled. Analysis will be performed. It will be compared 1) Success rate of Runoff group and Nonrunoff group in lumbar spine, 2) Success rate of Runoff group and Nonrunoff-NonTransforaminal group in lumbar spine. 3) Success rate of Runoff group with nonrunoff-transforaminal group and Nonrunoff-NonTransforaminal group in lumbar spine. 4) Success rate of Nonrunoff-Transforaminal group and Nonrunoff-NonTransforaminal group in lumbar spine.

Conditions

• Lumbar Spinal Stenosis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Transforaminal Block	Epidural block via neural foramen of lumbar spine

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-05-10
• Primary completion: 2019-06-30
• Completion: 2019-06-30
• First posted: 2019-03-08
• Last updated: 2019-05-13