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Status unknownNCT02502643Updated Oct 14, 2016

The Efficacy of OK-432 Pleurodesis on Postoperative Air Leak

An interventional study of OK-432 pleurodesis and normal saline pleurodesis in Postoperative Air Leak, sponsored by National Taiwan University Hospital. Status unknown at 1 site in Taiwan. Open to participants aged 20 Years to 70 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2016-10-14.

Sponsored by National Taiwan University Hospital · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Oct 2016), so the status shown — last known as Recruiting — may be out of date.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
80
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
20 Years to 70 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The purpose of this study is (1) The success rate of OK-432 pleurodesis after thoracic surgery that air leak over 48 hours (2)The side effects and treatments of OK-432 pleurodesis.

[Methods] This study was a prospective, randomized, open-label, controlled study to evaluate the effectiveness of OK-432 pleurodesis of persistent air Leak after pulmonary Resection. The adult patient have persistent air leak >48 hours after thoracic surgery, will randomized to OK-432 pleurodesis (OK-432 group) or normal saline pleurodesis (NS group). The trial will be conduct from May 25, 2015 to May 25, 2018 in the Department of Surgery at national Taiwan University Hospital, a medical center. The study protocol was approved by the hospitals' Institutional Review Boards. A total of 80 cases, the subjects will be the hospital thoracic surgery ward and received outpatient programs. Eligible Subjects : adults (minimum age> 20 years; maximum age ≦ 70 years old) patients with thoracic surgery and over48 hours of continuous air leak. The exclusion criteria include: penicillin allergy,primary pneumothorax, esophageal cancer, immune dysfunction, those who can not sign a consent form, and pregnant or lactating, other serious concomitant illness such as uremia or liver cirrhosis. Study steps: eligible Patients will randomize according to computer-generated random numbers, with 1:1 ratio in sequentially numbered, sealed envelopes by a study nurse who was masked to the study. Randomization envelopes were opened, and randomization was performed by the study nurse after informed consent was obtain. Eligible inpatients were randomized to the OK-432 group or the normal saline (NS) group,each group are 40 cases.

All subjects were observed by the physician who was masked to the study, about air leak stop time, chest tube removal time, discharge time, outpatient chest X-ray, pulmonary function tests as necessary. cases if persistent air leak more than seven days, the attending physician determines whether pleurodesis again or surgery or other medical treatment. Finally, the researcher who do not know groups will collection data by "air leak case record form" including diagnosis, surgical site,the start and end time of the surgery, the use of antibiotics, discomfort problems (pain , stomach discomfort, cough, fever> 38 ℃, allergic reactions and respiratory discomfort), postoperative air leak time, air leak stop time , chest tube removal time, discharge time, the data will be use SPSS20.0 version of the statistical software package, and T-test, pair T-test ,Anova ,linear correlation statistical methods for analysis.

Outcome measures: OK-432 success rate, OK-432 side effects, air leak time, chest tube remove time, length of hospital stay.

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[Background and Objective] :Air leak produced after thoracic surgery is a common phenomenon.Prolonged chest tube placement can lead to empyema or infection, and extended hospitalization or even death. In 2010 many researchers reported that The incidence of lung resection produce air leak about 8-26% (Singhal et al., 2010), and even up to 50% (Mueller \& Marzluf, 2014).How to effectively treatment is still not clear.The chemical pleurodesis is an effective option in management of air leak.There are several chemical agents for pleurodesis, such as tetracycline and minocycline, talc, Taurolidine, bleomycin, iodopovidone, picibanil (OK-432), silver nitrate, quinacrine. What kind of chemical agent effective remain controversial. A study evaluated after thoracoscopic operation for primary spontaneous pneumothorax the safety and efficacy of chemical pleurodesis with a comparison between minocycline and OK-432. The OK-432 pleurodesis (19 patients) as the primary treatment and the primary success rate was 95%.(How et al., 2014).Another retrospective case-control study examining post-isolated lobectomies and bilobectomies by thoracotomy of Persistent air leak,sclerosis (talc, bleomycin, minocycline, doxycycline)for the treatment of prolonged air leak was successful in 40 of 41 patients (the success rate of 97.6%) (Liberman et al., 2010). The prolonged air leaks after major pulmonary resection still no empirical treatment of clinical research.

Hypothesis: patients were persistent air leak after 48 hours chest surgery will perform OK-432 pleurodesis .The chest tube time can reduce and length of hospital stay. Extended applications can significantly reduce medical costs and manpower, and to explore OK -432 pleurodesis side effects and treatment.

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Conditions studied

  • Postoperative Air Leak

Keywords

  • Safety and Efficacy
  • Thoracic Surgery
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In context

Lead sponsor

National Taiwan University Hospital is the lead sponsor of 2,563 studies on the registry; 569 are open to participants now.

Of its 11 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 2 (18%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
20 Years to 70 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  • Patients were eligible for this study if they were more than 20 and less than 70 years old of age and under thoracic surgery that air leak lasting more than 48 hours form chest drainage bottles.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria :

  • penicillin allergy, primary pneumothorax, esophageal cancer, immune dysfunction, those who can not sign a consent form, and pregnant or lactating, other serious concomitant illness such as uremia or liver cirrhosis.
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Single (Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
80 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    OK-432 pleurodesis

    Picibanil ( OK-432 ) ,OK-432 (KE Z Klinische Einbeit; 1 KE contains 0.1 mg of dried cocci; UKIMA PLANT OF CHUGAI PHARMA MANUFACTURING CO, LTD; JAPAN).

    Drug: OK-432 pleurodesis

  • Active comparator
    normal saline pleurodesis

    (Normal Saline),Isotonic Sodium Chloride Solution

    Drug: normal saline pleurodesis

Interventions

  • DrugOK-432 pleurodesis

    1.Pain medications (if no contraindications) Before half hour; Bain (IM ,0.15mg / kg). 2. Make the patient supine position 3. Near the body of patient's chest tube is the injection site disinfection with the alcoholic Betadine and alcohol repeated three times.4. 20 cc of 2% lidocaine hydrochloride (400 mg) was instilled into the pleural cavity through the chest tube 5. A solution of 30 cc of normal saline containing 5 KE of OK-432 (KE Z Klinische Einbeit; 1 KE contains 0.1 mg of dried cocci).6. Inject air 20 cc 7. The injection site will cover with op site and the rubber tube that connecting the chest tube and chest bottle was raised 40-60 cm above the patient to trap the sclerosing agent but allow air to pass 8. Patients will reposition (left and right side)every 30 minutes in 2 hours

    Also known as: Picibanil

  • Drugnormal saline pleurodesis

    Make the patient supine position , Near the body of patient's chest tube is the injection site disinfection with the alcoholic Betadine and alcohol repeated three times.injected a solution of 30 cc of normal saline , and then injected into 20 cc air to the rubber chest tube , so that normal saline can completely into the chest, the injection site will cover with op site, use a rubber band to the rubber chest tube for hanging from the patient's body 40-60 cm high.Patients will reposition (left and right side)every 30 minutes in 2 hours

    Also known as: normal saline

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. OK-432 success rate

    The success rate of OK-432 was defined chest bottle no bubbles appear when coughing, then CXR was perform the next day after pleurodesis, and after cessation of the air leak,the chest tube is remove .

    Time frame: 48 hours

Secondary outcomes

  1. OK-432 side effects

    The main side effects of the procedure with OK-432 were fever and chest pain, which were well controlled by non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.the side effects of OK-432 will be assessed by temperature,visual analog scale.these will present as number and frequencies (%).

    Time frame: 48 hours

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • National Taiwan University Hospital
    Taipei, Test2 test3, Taiwan
    Recruiting
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Oct 14, 2016, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT02502643
Lead sponsor
National Taiwan University Hospital
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jul 20, 2015
Start date
Jul 2015
Primary completion
Jul 2018 (estimated)
Completion
Jul 2018 (estimated)
Last update
Oct 14, 2016

Study contacts

Pei-Yin Hsieh
Contact
peiyin3111@ntuh.gov.tw
886-2-23123456 ext. 63407
Jin-Shing Chen
Contact
chenjs@ntu.edu.tw
886-2-23123456 ext. 65178
Jin-Shing Chen
study chair · National Taiwan University Hospital

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
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