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NCT06643520
EUS-guided liver biopsy (EUS-LB) is increasingly used to diagnose patients with liver disease, especially in anxious patients who need sedation. There is an ongoing debate about the optimal needle size for EUS-LB. Some clinicians prefer a thinner 22-gauge biopsy needle because they presume it to be safer, and some studies show that their performance is the same as a thicker 19-gauge needle. However, some other studies show that the adequacy and diagnostic accuracy of a 19-gauge needle is better, and the rates of adverse events are the same. In this study, we aimed to compare the adequacy and diagnostic accuracy of samples obtained by the same endoscopist from the same liver lobe during the same session.
NCT04549623
To meet the needs of both operators and patients, moderate and deep sedation has been widely used in digestive endoscopy, which is invasive and painful. With its pleasant effects, sedation has complications nevertheless. And respiratory depression is the most common one, which makes respiratory monitoring significant. SpO2 and respiratory motion are regularly monitored without satisfying timeliness or sensitivity. Capnography with current device is only able to detect either oral or nasal breathing. The present study was designed to test the effect of the investigator's modified End-Tidal Carbon Dioxide (ETCO2) monitoring device for sedation during endoscopic ultrasonography-guided fine needle aspiration.
NCT04486274
Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) with tissue acquisition (TA) is nowadays a well-established technique for the sampling of solid lesions pancreatic and non-pancreatic lesions. Actually the standard methods to obtain sampling in gastrointestinal (GI) and non-GI solid masses is the fine needle aspiration (FNA) performed by endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS). Its sensitivity, specificity and diagnostic accuracy for malignant cytology are actually reported of 85-95%, 95%-98% and 78-95% respectively. These data could be affected by the presence of cytopathologist in endoscopy room during the tissue sampling. The rapid on-site evaluation (ROSE) has been advocated to significantly increase EUS-FNA accuracy. To overcome this problem fine needle biopsy (FNB) for TA to obtain histological specimens was proposed. These needles allow as the acquisition of an histological specimen than the cytological one with FNA needles. Recently, the need to obtain a histological, instead of a cytological, specimen during EUS has become more urgent and necessary due to innovative oncological treatment options. An acquired histological specimen could avoid the need of a cytopathologist in the endoscopic room, diminishing costs, procedures time, number of passes and reducing the additional costs of a possible repeated EUS-FNA, in case of an inconclusive diagnosis. With the advent of FNB, the macroscopic on-site evaluation (MOSE) of the specimen by the endosonographer was proposed, resulting in a comparable alternative to ROSE.
NCT02977650
To evaluate the feasibility of EUS-FNA for patients taking anticoagulants without heparin bridge.