NCT03609580RecruitingPhase 1/2
Post-operative Urinary Retention (POUR) Following Thoracic Surgery
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 11 Jun 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Inability to urinate a common complication that happens to many patients after a surgery, especially in men over 60 years of age who undergo surgery on their chest. Urinary retention is uncomfortable, increases anxiety, increases hospital length of stay, and leads to more procedures such as putting in a bladder catheter (Foley). This is uncomfortable, and can lead to bleeding, infection, damage to the urethra and/or bladder and bladder spasm. The goal of this study is to attempt to prevent inability to urinate by giving patients a medication called Flomax (Tamusolin) every day beginning a week before surgery. That medication relaxes the prostate. It's approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to improve urinary flow in those with enlarged prostates. It is also commonly used in patients with bladder problems due to inability to urinate who have required a Foley.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 1/2
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 127 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 12 Jul 2018
- Start date
- 7 May 2018
- Primary completion date
- 30 Mar 2027
- Lead sponsor
- Hackensack Meridian Health
- Diseases
- Lung cancer
- NCT number
- NCT03609580
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 1/2
- Planned participants: 127
- From 7 May 2018 to the primary completion date, 30 Mar 2027
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- Allergy to Flomax or sulfa drugs
- Known diagnosis of congestive heart failure and valvular heart disease
- History of prostate surgery (prostatectomy, trans-urethral resection)
Other
- Using Flomax already
- Current use of alpha blockers or alpha agonists
- Resting systolic blood pressure \<100
- Orthostatic hypotension of \>20mm Hg (millimeters of mercury) Systolic and/or 10mm Hg diastolic pressure from sitting to standing (after 2 minutes of standing) as measured at the time of consent
Who the study is looking for
- Males
- ≥50 years old Planned surgical procedure of a minimally invasive thoracic surgical procedure (wedge resection, segmentectomy, lobectomy, pleural biopsy, or pleurodesis) Surgery scheduled more than 3 days from the time of consent
Age in the registry: 50 years to - · Sex: Male · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Spallone Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hackensack | United States | Recruiting |
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