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RecruitingNCT06669806Updated Dec 19, 2025

Effectiveness and Safety of TIPS Stent Graft in the Treatment of Cirrhosis and Complications of Portal Hypertension

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

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Jun 2026, 5 months ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Started Nov 2024; still recruiting 1 year 11 months later.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
166
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 75 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

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 .

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Conditions studied

  • Portal Hypertension Related to Cirrhosis
  • Ascites Hepatic
  • Variceal Bleeding

Keywords

  • Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt
  • TIPS stent
  • patency
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In context

Ascites

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.

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Lead sponsor

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.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 75 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. The subject who is 18 years old or above but 75 years old or below;
  2. The subject who is diagnosed with portal hypertension caused by liver cirrhosis with the history of gastrointestinal variceal bleeding or bleeding, hepatic hydrothorax, and or recurrent ascites;
  3. The subject must have adequate functional hepatic reserve with a Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) Score of ≤13 or Score of ≤18;
  4. The subject with count≥ 20×10\^9 /L;
  5. Subjects or their guardians who can understand the content of the clinical trial, voluntarily participate in the clinical trial and sign the ICF and can complete the follow-up period according to the requirements of the clinical trial.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. The subject who is pregnant or lactating or plan to get pregnant during the clinical trial;
  2. According to the judgment of investigator, the subject with main portal vein thrombosis which thrombus occupying >50% of the portal vein lumen and affecting postoperative hemodynamics;
  3. The subject who has received surgical or interventional treatment (such as TIPS, surgical shunt and retrograde transvenous obliteration (-RTO) for treatment of complications from portal hypertension. Note: The subject who have received -RTO for variceal bleeding at least 8 weeks before signing the form can be included in the clinical trial;
  4. The subject who needs to receive or have received splenectomy;
  5. The subject who has received or plan to receive liver transplantation;
  6. The subject who cannot have a shunt channel established in the liver parenchyma between the hepatic vein and the portal vein as determined by the investigators;
  7. The subject with extrahepatic or hepatic ;
  8. The subject with Budd-Chiari syndrome and hepatic sinusoidal obstruction syndrome;
  9. The subject with congenital cystic dilatation of bile duct (Caroli disease) and obstructive dilation of biliary tract;
  10. The subject with polycystic liver disease;
  11. The subject with cavernous transformation of the portal vein;
  12. The subject with severe or hepatic encephalopathy (Grade 2 or above according to the West Haven Criteria);
  13. The subject with a level higher than 51.3 μmol/L (excluding the Patients with cholestatic cirrhosis);
  14. The subject with coagulation disorders (: >2.5);
  15. The subject with a systolic pressure lower than 80 mmHg;
  16. The subject with severe tricuspid regurgitation or congestive heart failure;
  17. The subject with myocardial infarction within the past 3 months;
  18. The subject with moderate to severe pulmonary arterial hypertension, or severe hepatopulmonary syndrome;
  19. The subject with uncontrolled systemic infection or inflammation;
  20. The subject with severe renal insufficiency (Scr level:>199.5 μmol/L) or needing to receive dialysis;
  21. The subject known to be allergic to the contrast media or to the constituent materials of the TIPS covered segment;
  22. The subject with the history of epilepsy or mental illness or with cognitive impairment;
  23. The subject with the expected survival time of less than 1 year;
  24. The subject who is otherwise determined as ineligible for participation in this Study by investigators;
  25. The subject who is participating in any other unfinished drug or medical device clinical trials.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(7)

Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
166 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    TIPS Stent Graft device

    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

Interventions

  • DeviceTIPS Stent Graft

    a covered TIPS stent graft

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Stent patency rate after treatment completion*

    Time frame: 6 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Technical success rate

    Time frame: immediately after the intervention

  2. Hemodynamic success rate

    Time frame: immediately after the intervention

  3. Incidence of subjects free from receiving TIPS shunt reoperation after treatment completion*

    Time frame: 1 month, 3 months, 6 months and 12 months

  4. Stent patency rate after treatment completion*

    Time frame: 1 month, 3 months and 12 months

  5. Incidence of subjects free from severe hepatic encephalopathy after treatment completion*

    Time frame: 1 month, 3 months, 6 months and 12 months

  6. Incidence of subjects free from rebleeding after treatment completion*

    Time frame: 1 month, 3 months, 6 months and 12 months

  7. The proportion of clinical improvement on ascites after treatment completion*

    Time frame: 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months

  8. The proportion of clinical improvement on hepatic hydrothorax after treatment completion*

    Time frame: 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months

  9. Liver transplant-free survival rate post-index procedure

    Time frame: 6 months and 12 months

  10. Overall survival rate post-index procedure

    Time frame: 1 month, 3 months, 6 months and 12 months

  11. Incidence of medical device-related and/or operation-related severe complications

    Time frame: 1 month

  12. TEP related adverse events (AE) after treatment completion*

    Time frame: 6 months and 12 months

  13. Adverse events (AE) after index procedure

    Time frame: 6 months and 12 months

  14. Serious adverse events (SAE) after index procedure

    Time frame: 6 months and 12 months

  15. Device deficiencies

    Time frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Dec 19, 2025, 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
NCT06669806
Lead sponsor
C. R. Bard
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Nov 1, 2024
Start date
Nov 21, 2024
Primary completion
Jun 1, 2026 (estimated)
Completion
Jan 1, 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Dec 19, 2025

Study contacts

Huang
Contact
haojia.huang@bd.com
8617801014015

Oversight

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