NCT07147270Recruiting
Impact of Patient Position on Chemical Pleurodesis by Chest Ultrasound
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 29 Aug 2025 · Not updated for over 12 months - ask the site whether it is still open
Brief summary (registry, in English)
chemical pleurodesis using doxycycline is an acceptable and commonly employed palliation for malignant pleural effusion. Rotation of patient during pleurodesis using the powder from doxycycline capsule is still practiced in some centers. The benefit of rotation practice in pleurodesis can be verified after properly designed study on the outcome of pleurodesis with rotation and non-rotation by chest ultrasound assessment
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 30 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 4 Aug 2025
- Start date
- 1 May 2025
- Primary completion date
- 31 Dec 2025
- Lead sponsor
- Ain Shams University
- NCT number
- NCT07147270
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 30
- From 1 May 2025 to the primary completion date, 31 Dec 2025
- 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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Prior treatment
- Previous failed pleurodesis
- Prolonged use of steroids or NSAIDs
Other illness
- Liver failure
- Renal failure
- Congestive heart failure
Other
- Multiloculated fluid
- Refusal to participate
Who the study is looking for
- Patients who will be admitted at Chest department, Ain-Shams University Hospitals with malignant pleural effusions candidate for pleurodesis
Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ain Shams University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cairo | Egypt | Recruiting |
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