Overview
A RCT COMPARING LACTULOSE AND RIFAXIMIN ASSOCIATED WITH A VEGETABLE DIET IN THE PREVENTION OF POST-TIPS OVERT HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY
Status:
Unknown status
Unknown status
Trial end date:
2018-11-01
2018-11-01
Target enrollment:
0
0
Participant gender:
All
All
Summary
This is a randomized controlled trial whose purpose is to evaluate the efficacy of therapy with lactulose and rifaximin associated with a vegetable diet in the prevention of post-TIPS hepatic encephalopathy.Phase:
Phase 1/Phase 2Accepts Healthy Volunteers?
NoDetails
Lead Sponsor:
University of Roma La SapienzaTreatments:
Rifaximin
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:- consecutive cirrhotic patients undergoing TIPS
Exclusion Criteria:
- age >75 years; bilirubin levels >5 mg/dl; creatinine levels >3 mg/dl; a serious
cardiac or pulmonary dysfunction; a Child-Pugh's score >11 (except for the patients
candidates to early TIPS); a model end-stage liver disease (MELD) score >18; a
diagnosis of hepatic carcinoma; sepsis; spontaneous bacterial peritonitis; renal
insufficiency. Present HE or previous spontaneous/recurrent HE, alcohol/psychoactive
drugs intake (positive alcoholaemia and/or benzodiazepines or opioid urine
metabolites) at the moment of evaluation, unrelated neurological disease including
dementia (mini mental state < 26).