NCT04071483

Correlation of Intravascular Injection Rate and Severity of Cervical Neural Foraminal Stenosis

Correlation of Intravascular Injection Rate and Severity of Cervical Neural Foraminal Stenosis During Cervical Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection: a Prospective Study

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 126 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Kyungpook National University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study evaluates whether there is a correlation between intravascular injection rate and severity of cervical foraminal stenosis during cervical transforaminal epidural steroid injection

Detailed description

Cervical transforaminal epidural steroid injection (CTFESI) is useful option to improve cervical radicular pain. However, severe complication can occur by CTFESI such as epidural hematomas, infection, inadvertent intramedullary cord injections, and embolic infarct when inadvertent intra-arterial injection of particulate steroids has occurred. The incidence of intravascular injection during CTFESI was known as 20.6% \~ 32.8% and it is higher than other level of spinal transforaminal epidural injection. To avoid complication due to intravascular injection during CTFESI, risk factors was should be evaluated. However, there was no study about risk factors of intravascular injection during CTFESI. The investigators could assume the severity of cervical neural foraminal spinal stenosis could affect the incidence of intravascular injection, pain intensity and effectiveness during CTFESI. Thus, the investigators designed this study to investigate whether there is a correlation between intravascular injection rate and severity of cervical foraminal stenosis during CTFESI.

Conditions

• Analgesia, Epidural

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Cervical transforaminal epidural steroid injection	Cervical transforaminal epidural steroid injection is a useful option in the diagnosis and treatment of cervical radicular pain.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-10-01
• Primary completion: 2019-08-31
• Completion: 2019-09-30
• First posted: 2019-08-28
• Last updated: 2019-09-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: South Korea