An interventional study of TIPS Stent Graft in Portal Hypertension Related to Cirrhosis, Ascites Hepatic and Variceal Bleeding, sponsored by C. R. Bard. Recruiting at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-12-19.
Sponsored by C. R. Bard (part of Becton, Dickinson and Company) · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
This Study is a prospective, multi-center, single-arm objective perform an criteria (OPC) study. A 12 months follow-up study on the patients who intend to receive the treatment of cirrhosis and complications of portal hypertension with the TIPS Stent Graft will be conducted. The primary evaluation endpoint of this Study is the stent patency at 6 months after treatment completion .
247 studies on the registry are indexed under Ascites; 57 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 166 is above the median of 54 across 179 interventional studies indexed under Ascites.
Browse Ascites studies →C. R. Bard is the lead sponsor of 117 studies on the registry; 6 are open to participants now.
Of its 17 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 13 (76%) have results posted.
First submitted after C. R. Bard became part of Becton, Dickinson and Company.
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Relapsed: the illness came back after treatment had worked. Refractory: it did not respond to treatment, or stopped responding while still on it.
A score of how well the liver works in people with liver disease such as cirrhosis: class A is mild, B moderate and C severe.
Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.
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Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
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A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.
Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.
Blood tests of how long blood takes to clot. The INR is the prothrombin time (PT) put on a common scale; about 1 is usual for someone not taking a blood thinner.
Criteria often make an exception for people on a blood thinner such as warfarin, whose INR is raised on purpose.
Relapsed and refractory
Relapsed: the illness came back after treatment had worked. Refractory: it did not respond to treatment, or stopped responding while still on it.
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Child-Pugh class
A score of how well the liver works in people with liver disease such as cirrhosis: class A is mild, B moderate and C severe.
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Platelets
Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.
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Informed consent
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
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Cancer (malignancy)
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
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Bilirubin
A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.
Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
INR, PT and aPTT (clotting tests)
Blood tests of how long blood takes to clot. The INR is the prothrombin time (PT) put on a common scale; about 1 is usual for someone not taking a blood thinner.
Criteria often make an exception for people on a blood thinner such as warfarin, whose INR is raised on purpose.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
after creating and dilating the hepatic parenchymal tract, the device is planted to cover the intrahepatic shunt and hepatic vein. A second stent graft may be placed in overlapped fashion.
Device: TIPS Stent Graft
a covered TIPS stent graft
Stent patency rate after treatment completion*
Time frame: 6 months
Technical success rate
Time frame: immediately after the intervention
Hemodynamic success rate
Time frame: immediately after the intervention
Incidence of subjects free from receiving TIPS shunt reoperation after treatment completion*
Time frame: 1 month, 3 months, 6 months and 12 months
Stent patency rate after treatment completion*
Time frame: 1 month, 3 months and 12 months
Incidence of subjects free from severe hepatic encephalopathy after treatment completion*
Time frame: 1 month, 3 months, 6 months and 12 months
Incidence of subjects free from rebleeding after treatment completion*
Time frame: 1 month, 3 months, 6 months and 12 months
The proportion of clinical improvement on ascites after treatment completion*
Time frame: 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months
The proportion of clinical improvement on hepatic hydrothorax after treatment completion*
Time frame: 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months
Liver transplant-free survival rate post-index procedure
Time frame: 6 months and 12 months
Overall survival rate post-index procedure
Time frame: 1 month, 3 months, 6 months and 12 months
Incidence of medical device-related and/or operation-related severe complications
Time frame: 1 month
TEP related adverse events (AE) after treatment completion*
Time frame: 6 months and 12 months
Adverse events (AE) after index procedure
Time frame: 6 months and 12 months
Serious adverse events (SAE) after index procedure
Time frame: 6 months and 12 months
Device deficiencies
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
Plan to share: No
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