ICG Use in Angiography for Nasoseptal Flap Harvest

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2015-11-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This is a feasibility study in which indocyanine green (ICG) will be administered during routine expanded endonasal approach (EEA) for cranial base pathologies in which a nasoseptal flap harvest will be necessary. The research entails administering ICG, which is already widely used during open neurosurgical procedures, to identify the blood supply at two distinct stages of endonasal cranial base surgery: during nasoseptal flap harvest and after final positioning of the nasoseptal flap to ensure its viability before ending the case.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Ohio State University

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age 18 and above

• Patients undergoing an EEA for cranial base pathology that may require nasoseptal flap harvest

Exclusion Criteria:

• History of sulfa, iodide, or penicillin allergy

• Pregnant or breast feeding

• Preoperative lack of indication for nasoseptal flap harvest

• Previous anaphylactic reaction to ICG