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The Efficacy of Shear-wave Elastography-guided Biopsy for Diagnosis in Pleural Disease

ConditionPleural Diseases
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorNational Taiwan University Hospital

About this trial

To investigate the information from shear-wave elastography on pleural tissues will improve the diagnosis of pleural diseases, as to increase the diagnostic yield in ultrasound-guided transthoracic pleura biopsy.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Patients with radiographic evidence of pleural disease

Disqualifiers

Age < 18 y/o

Patients who cannot hold their breath for 5 seconds

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • different types of ultrasound technique

    Procedure/Surgery

    Shear-wave elastography-guided or B-mode ultrasound-guided

Treatment groups

234 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: Shear-wave elastography-guidedExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: B-mode ultrasound-guidedActive comparator 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

The diagnostic yield of the two groups

the pathology of pleural biopsies will be interpreted by cytopathologists

Time frame
6 months

Secondary outcomes

1

Procedure time

Procedure time

Time frame
1 day
2

the rate of pneumothorax & hemothorax

Safety

Time frame
1 day

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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National Taiwan University Hospital

Lead sponsor

Source ClinicalTrials.gov
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