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RecruitingNCT06198894Updated Jan 18, 2024

Steroid-eluting Sinus Stent for Chronic Rhinosinusitis Patients With Uncontrolled Postoperative Symptoms

An interventional study of steroid-eluting sinus stent implant and Systemic glucocorticoids in Chronic Sinusitis, sponsored by Zheng Liu. Recruiting at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 65 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-01-18.

Sponsored by Zheng Liu · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Jan 2026, 10 months ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
96
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 65 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

Stent-001 study is a randomized controlled clinical trial with the steroid-eluting Sinus in 96 chronic rhinosinusitis patients with uncontrolled postoperative symptoms

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Stent-001 is a randomized (1:1), sham-controlled, parallel group, single-blind, non-inferiority, multicenter study in 96 chronic rhinosinusitis patients who had prior endoscopic sinus surgery and presented with uncontrolled postoperative symptoms. The objective was to evaluate the safety and clinical efficacy of sinus stents relative to systemic glucocorticoids. The steroid-eluting sinus stent consist of a bioabsorbable self-expanding sinus implant coated with 625 mcg of mometasone furoate (MF) and a single-use delivery system. Implant is placed in-office in the ethmoid sinus under local anesthesia. The coating on the sinus stent implant provides controlled release of MF to the sinus mucosa over 30 days.

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Conditions studied

  • Chronic Sinusitis

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Keywords

  • steroid-eluting sinus stent
  • mucous edema
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In context

Sinusitis

256 studies on the registry are indexed under Sinusitis; 23 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 96 is above the median of 60 across 196 interventional studies indexed under Sinusitis.

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Lead sponsor

Zheng Liu is the lead sponsor of 7 studies on the registry; 3 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 65 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • The patient underwent pre-functional endoscopic sinus surgery and bilateral ethmoidectomy (for at least 3 months), and was identified by the clinician as having uncontrolled symptoms (Diagnostic criteria of EPOS 2020) with a Snot-22 score of at least 20;
  • Edema score of bilateral nasal endoscopy was 2 points both;
  • Understands the purpose and procedures of the trial and voluntarily signs the form;
  • The female subjects had no pregnancy or lactation plans during the treatment and follow-up period;
  • The subject has not participated in other clinical trials in the previous three months and agrees not to participate in other clinical trials until the end point of this trial was reached;
  • Subjects were 18-65 years old, male or non-pregnant women;

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Grade 2 or more nasal polyp scores in either nasal cavity (i.e., polyps extending beyond the middle nasal passage)
  • The subject has a known allergic reaction or to the device material and its degradation products (mamethasone citrate, L-polylactic acid, racemic polylactic acid, lactide lactate, lactic acid);
  • Subjects had cystic fibrosis, congenital ciliary dyskinesia, fungal globular sinusitis, systemic vasculitis and granulomatous diseases, tumors, and immune deficiency.
  • The patient underwent endoscopic nasal surgery within 3 months.
  • Acute exacerbation of allergic rhinitis, acute exacerbation of CRS, upper respiratory tract infection, or common cold in the 4 weeks prior to screening visit;
  • Have a clinically serious metabolic, cardiovascular, immune, neurological, blood, digestive, cerebrovascular, or respiratory disease, or any condition that the investigator believes interferes with the evaluation of the study results or affects the safety of the subjects;
  • Symptomatic seasonal allergic rhinitis, and/or, depending on the season, expected to develop symptoms and require nasal spray hormone therapy within 4 weeks of randomization,
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Single (Participant)
Enrollment
96 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Steroid-eluting Sinus Implant

    In-office bilateral placement of the sinus stent; Systemic glucocorticoid placebo; saline irrigations (250ml) twice daily

    Procedure: steroid-eluting sinus stent implant · Drug: saline irrigations · Drug: Placebo

  • Sham comparator
    Control

    In-office bilateral sham procedure; Systemic glucocorticoid; saline irrigations (250ml) twice daily

    Drug: Systemic glucocorticoids · Drug: saline irrigations · Procedure: sham procedure

Interventions

  • Proceduresteroid-eluting sinus stent implant

    In-office bilateral placement of the steroid-eluting sinus stent in the ethmoid sinuses under local anesthesia

    Also known as: BISORB bioabsorbable steroid-eluting sinus stent

  • DrugSystemic glucocorticoids

    Groups were given oral methylprednisolone (32 mg/d on days 1-5; 16 mg/d on days 6-10; and 8 mg/d on days 11-20),

    Also known as: Medrol

  • Patients were routinely treated with saline irrigations (250ml) twice daily

    Also known as: 0.9% sodium chloride solution

  • DrugPlacebo

    Groups were given systemic glucocorticoid placebo

    Also known as: Systemic glucocorticoid placebo

  • Proceduresham procedure

    The sham procedure was performed in-office under local anesthesia

    Also known as: In-office bilateral sham procedure of stent placement

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Change in Sino-Nasal Outcome Test Scores (SNOT-22)

    The change in Sino-Nasal Outcome Test scores (SNOT-22) scores pre- and post-treatment between the two arms was measured. The Sino-Nasal Outcome Test asks subjects to rate how "bad" their rhinosinusitis is by using a 0-5 point scale with 0=no problem, 1=very mild problem, 2=mild or slight problem, 3=moderate problem, 4=severe problem, 5=problem as bad as it can be. The SNOT includes 22 questions (symptoms and social/emotional consequences of rhinosinusitis), each of which are rated from 0 to 5 for a minimum score of 0 to maximum score of 110, with higher scores representing worse outcome.

    Time frame: Change from Baseline to Week 4

Secondary outcomes

  1. Change in Sino-Nasal Outcome Test Scores (SNOT-22)

    The change in Sino-Nasal Outcome Test scores (SNOT-22) scores pre- and post-treatment between the two arms was measured. The Sino-Nasal Outcome Test asks subjects to rate how "bad" their rhinosinusitis is by using a 0-5 point scale with 0=no problem, 1=very mild problem, 2=mild or slight problem, 3=moderate problem, 4=severe problem, 5=problem as bad as it can be. The SNOT includes 22 questions (symptoms and social/emotional consequences of rhinosinusitis), each of which are rated from 0 to 5 for a minimum score of 0 to maximum score of 110, with higher scores representing worse outcome.

    Time frame: Change from Baseline to Week 1, 2, 8, 12

  2. Change in nasal symptoms

    Nasal symptoms measured by Visual analog score. The four nasal symptoms (nasal obstruction, rhinorrhea, headache and olfactory disorder) involved in assigning the total nasal symptom score(TNSS). The symptoms are graded on a10-point scale (0 = no symptoms;10 = most severe symptoms).

    Time frame: Change from Baseline to Week 1, 2, 4, 8, 12

  3. Rescue medication use

    If polyps and/or the moderate to severe clinical symptoms of CRS were relapsed and/or not controlled throughout the study period, rescue medication of corticosteroids for the experimental group will be used and recorded.

    Time frame: Week 4 and Week 12

  4. The rate of surgery rate

    The rate of nasal endoscopic surgery for the experimental or control group throughout the study period will be recorded.

    Time frame: Week 4 and Week 12

  5. Lund-Kennedy Scoring for Nasal Endoscopy

    The Lund Kennedy scoring system for nasal endoscopy rates the severity of the sinusitis based on the endoscopic appearance of the nasal mucosa. Edema, secretions, and the presence of polyps are rated from 0-2, for a total maximum score of 6 per each side of the nose. Higher scores represent more severe disease.

    Time frame: Change from Baseline to Week 1, 2, 4

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • Department of ENT, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
    Wuhan, Hubei 430030, China
    Recruiting
    • Zheng Liu, doctor · Contactzhengliuent@hotmail.com · 86 027 83663807
    • Wang, Doctor · Contact
    • Zheng Liu, doctor · Principal investigator
    • Heng Wang, doctor · Principal investigator
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References and documents

Publications

  • Forwith KD, Han JK, Stolovitzky JP, Yen DM, Chandra RK, Karanfilov B, Matheny KE, Stambaugh JW, Gawlicka AK. RESOLVE: bioabsorbable steroid-eluting sinus implants for in-office treatment of recurrent sinonasal polyposis after sinus surgery: 6-month outcomes from a randomized, controlled, blinded study. Int Forum Allergy Rhinol. 2016 Jun;6(6):573-81. doi: 10.1002/alr.21741. Epub 2016 Mar 14. PubMed 26992115 ↗
  • Van Zele T, Gevaert P, Holtappels G, Beule A, Wormald PJ, Mayr S, Hens G, Hellings P, Ebbens FA, Fokkens W, Van Cauwenberge P, Bachert C. Oral steroids and doxycycline: two different approaches to treat nasal polyps. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2010 May;125(5):1069-1076.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2010.02.020. PubMed 20451040 ↗
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jan 18, 2024, 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
NCT06198894
Lead sponsor
Zheng Liu
Responsible party
Zheng Liu (Professor of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery; Deputy Dean of Tongji Medical College; Deputy Dean of Tongji Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology) — Sponsor-investigator
First posted
Jan 10, 2024
Start date
Jan 10, 2024 (estimated)
Primary completion
Jan 10, 2026 (estimated)
Completion
Apr 10, 2026 (estimated)
Last update
Jan 18, 2024

Study contacts

Zheng Liu
Contact
zhengliuent@hotmail.com
86 027 83663807

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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