Somatostatin Analogues With Perioperative Antibiotics Versus Prolonged Antibiotics

• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Trial end date: 2023-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Researchers are trying to determine how the length of antibiotic treatment in addition to octreotide after pancreatic surgery affects the amount of time subjects are hospitalized as well as how many subjects develop pancreatic fistulas.

• Phase: Phase 2/Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Mayo Clinic
• Treatments: Anti-Bacterial Agents; Antibiotics, Antitubercular; Somatostatin

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients undergoing a Whipple procedure for various diagnoses (neuroendocrine tumors, adenocarcinoma, benign cystic neoplasms, duodenal and ampullary malignancies, etc) who are deemed intermediate-high risk as per our institutional protocol as shown above.

• Patients > 18 years of age

Exclusion Criteria

• Negligible and low risk patients

• All patients undergoing arterial resection.

• Age <18 years

• Currently pregnant