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NCT Number: NCT06226909

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

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Pleural Diseases Respiratory Tract Diseases

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

National Taiwan University Hospital

Taipei, 100, Taiwan

Location status: Recruiting

Location contact

Yao-Wen Kuo

CONTACT

[email protected]

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Patients with radiographic evidence of pleural disease

Exclusion criteria

  • Age < 18 y/o
  • Patients who cannot hold their breath for 5 seconds

Treatment and study plan

different types of ultrasound technique

Procedure

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

Primary outcomes

  1. The diagnostic yield of the two groups

    Time frame: 6 months

    the pathology of pleural biopsies will be interpreted by cytopathologists

Secondary outcomes

  1. Procedure time

    Time frame: 1 day

    Procedure time

  2. the rate of pneumothorax & hemothorax

    Time frame: 1 day

    Safety

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Yao-Wen Kuo

CONTACT

[email protected]

0972651821

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

National Taiwan University Hospital

Other

Registry information

Official study title

The Efficacy of Shear-wave Elastography-guided Biopsy for Diagnosis in Pleural Disease: a Randomized Controlled Trial

Important dates

Study start
2024
Primary completion
2027
Study completion
2027
First posted
Jan 26, 2024
Registry last updated
Feb 1, 2024

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