Ganglion Impar Denervation and Radiofrequency on Sacral Root 3 for Chronic Prostatic Pain

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Chronic Pain
• Interventions: Procedure: pulsed radiofrequency; Procedure: ganglion impar denervation

• Registration Number: NCT03884764
• Lead Sponsor: Assiut University

Brief Summary

the authors will evaluate the added analgesic benefit of pulsed radiofrequency on sacral root 3 with ganglion impar denervation on chronic pelvic pain due to chronic prostatitis

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2019-03-20
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-03-20
• Study First Posted: 2019-03-21
• Study Start: 2019-04-01
• Status Verified: 2020-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-09-12
• Last Update Posted: 2020-09-16
• Primary Completion: 2020-11-30
• Study Completion: 2020-12-15

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: Male
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

• patients with chronic pelvic pain due to chronic prostatitis for at least 3 months
• VAS pain score more than 5
• failed analgesic drug treatment

Exclusion Criteria

• coagulopathy
• neurogenic bladder
• infection at site of procedure

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
PRF on S3 + ganglion impar denervation	pulsed radiofrequency	patients will receive pulsed radiofrequency on sacral root number 3 in conjunction with ganglion impar denervation by alcohol
ganglion impar denervation	ganglion impar denervation	patients will receive ganglion impar denervation by alcohol

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
the percentage of patients that achieve more than 50% change of their initial pain on VAS pain score	patients will be evaluated at 3 months postoperatively	VAS pain is a scale of pain measurements scored grom 0 to 10 in which 0 = no pain and 10 the worst pain immaginable

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Diab; 🇪🇬 Assiut, Assuit, Egypt