NCT06779578Recruiting
Fluoroscopic-Guided Bipolar Versus Monopolar Pulsed Radiofrequency for Refractory Trigeminal Neuralgia
The Efficacy and Safety of Fluoroscopic-Guided Bipolar Versus Monopolar Pulsed Radiofrequency for Refractory Trigeminal Neuralgia: An Exploratory Study
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 17 Jan 2025 · Not updated for over 12 months - ask the site whether it is still open
Brief summary (registry, in English)
A prospective exploratory study aiming at comparing pulsed bipolar versus pulsed unipolar radiofrequency ablation in patients with medically refractory trigeminal neuralgia.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 20 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 13 Jan 2025
- Start date
- 1 Jan 2024
- Primary completion date
- 1 Jun 2025
- Lead sponsor
- Alexandria University
- NCT number
- NCT06779578
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 20
- From 1 Jan 2024 to the primary completion date, 1 Jun 2025
- 2 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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Prior treatment
- Patients exposed to previous radiofrequency procedures, as this may impair the nerve response to current PRF.
Other illness
- Painful trigeminal neuropathy based on the third version of the International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD-3).
- Trigeminal neuralgia comorbid with other atypical facial pain disorders.
Other
- Trigeminal neuralgia with V1 symptomatic clinical topography.
- Structural TN e.g., due to vascular compression, posterior fossa tumors, central demyelination, …etc.
- Patients who refused to participate in the study.
Who the study is looking for
- Patients with a definitive diagnosis of classical TN based on the third version of the International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD-3).
- Either purely paroxysmal classical TN or classical TN with concomitant chronic pain.
- Patients with idiopathic TN, with symptomatic clinical topography of V2 and/or V3.
- Patients with brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) unremarkable for structural etiology for the trigeminal pain.
- Patients with medically refractory TN defined as pain persisting beyond three months at a level of ≥5/10 after monotherapy or polytherapy in appropriate medical doses.
Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (2)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexandria University Faculty of Medicine Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Alexandria | Egypt | Recruiting |
| Cairo University Kasr Alainy Faculty of Medicine Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cairo | Egypt | Recruiting |
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