NCT03973372Active, not recruiting
ALTA TIPS: A 5-year Longitudinal Observational Study of Patients Undergoing TIPS Placement
Advancing Liver Therapeutic Approaches (ALTA). The ALTA Consortium Study Group for the Management of Portal Hypertension - A 5-year Longitudinal Observational Study of Patients Undergoing Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt (TIPS) Placement
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 10 Feb 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
ALTA is a multicenter consortium focused on the management of portal hypertension. ALTA TIPS is a longitudinal observational study of patients who are undergoing transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) placement. ALTA will create a database that will provide clinical parameters and outcomes of patients undergoing TIPS as part of their standard of care in hopes of answering key clinical questions.
- Status (registry)
- Active, not recruiting
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 852 (actual)
- First submitted
- 31 May 2019
- Start date
- 10 Jun 2019
- Primary completion date
- 31 Dec 2026
- Lead sponsor
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Diseases
- High blood pressure
- NCT number
- NCT03973372
What you commit to
- Study type: Observational
- Participants enrolled: 852
- From 10 Jun 2019 to the primary completion date, 31 Dec 2026
- 14 sites 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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Age
- Minors under the age of 18 at the time of enrollment
Other
- Prisoners
- Pregnant Women
- Subjects undergoing TIPS placement as part of an investigational study outside of usual clinical care
Who the study is looking for
- Subjects over the age of 18 able to provide consent or have a legally authorized consent in the event the subject is unable to consent due to a transient clinical condition
- Subject scheduled to undergo a TIPS procedure
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (14)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northwestern Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chicago | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Chicago Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chicago | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Dallas | United States | Unknown status |
| Baylor Scott & White Liver Consultants of Texas Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Dallas | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Florida Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Gainesville | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Wisconsin - Madison Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madison | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Minnesota Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Minneapolis | United States | Unknown status |
| Columbia University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Unknown status |
| Weill Cornell Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Arizona Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Phoenix | United States | Unknown status |
| Stanford Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Redwood City | United States | Unknown status |
| Mayo Clinic - Rochester Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rochester | United States | Unknown status |
| Scripps Health Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | San Diego | United States | Unknown status |
| University of California San Francisco Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | San Francisco | United States | Unknown status |
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