Safety and efficacy of thin bronchoscopic cryobiopsy through a long nasobronchial tube for lung diseases
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- ung diseases
- Registration Number
- JPRN-UMIN000037156
- Lead Sponsor
- ational Hospital Organization Nagoya Medical Center
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete: follow-up complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 80
Inclusion Criteria
Not provided
Exclusion Criteria
1. Lesion located within the inner second ellipse from the hilum on chest CT 2. Patients who were previously enrolled in this trial 3. Patients who need to undergo a bronchoscopic procedure for a nontarget lesion in the same setting 4. Patients with large lung cysts near the biopsy site 5. Lesions near a large vessel 6. Lesions inaccessible to the cryoprobe (e.g. apical lung lesions) 7. Patients with a diffuse lung disease who are receiving steroid therapy 8. Pregnant woman 9. Bleeding tendency 10. Pulmonary hypertension 11. Serious concomitant medical illness 12. Other clinical difficulties
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1.Safety (frequency of bleeding)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Safety (frequency of complications other than bleeding) 2. Pathological diagnostic yield 3. Procedural duration 4. Frequency of oxygen desaturation 5. Size of specimens