Clinical trialNCT03604523TerminatedInterventional

Esophageal Dysmotility - Prospective Study Evaluating Methods for Esophageal Dilation

SponsorUniversity of Massachusetts, WorcesterEnrollment10Esophageal Dysmotility

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Summary

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The purpose of the study is to prospectively evaluate the most effective treatment of esophageal dysmotility that alleviates symptoms of dysphagia and improves quality of life. Current practice uses either semi-rigid Savary dilators or balloon dilators for esophageal dilation to treat dysphagia due to esophageal dysmotility. The study aims to show which treatment method is more effective in alleviating symptoms, since there are no other treatments available. The null hypothesis is that there is no difference between the clinical benefits of each treatment.

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Investigators

The overall officials registered on this study. Names that resolve to a findmyKOL profile link to it; the rest are shown as registered.

David Cave, MD
Professor of Medicine, UMass Medical School
Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Umass Memorial Medical Center
Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 14 Aug 2014
Primary completion: 26 Nov 2016
Completion: 26 Nov 2016
Last update posted: 13 Apr 2021
Registered enrollment: 10
Registry id: NCT03604523

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