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Brief Title: Safety and Effectiveness of a New Pleural Catheter for Symptomatic, Recurrent, MPEs Versus Approved Pleural Catheter
Official Title: Pivotal Multi Center, Randomized, Controlled, Single-Blinded Study Comparing the Silver Nitrate Coated Indwelling Pleural Catheter to the Uncoated PleurX Catheter for the Management of Symptomatic, Recurrent, Malignant Pleural Effusions
Study ID: NCT02649894
Brief Summary: The purpose of this study is to determine whether a new catheter is safe and effective in treating malignant pleural effusions compared to approve catheter.
Detailed Description:
Minimum Age: 18 Years
Eligible Ages: ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Sex: ALL
Healthy Volunteers: No
Heart Center Research, Huntsville, Alabama, United States
Stanford University School of Medicine/ Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford, California, United States
Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, United States
Northwestern Unversity, Chicago, Illinois, United States
St. Vincent Medical Group, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Beth Israel Deconess Medical Center West, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Washington Universtiy School of Medicine, Barnes Jewish Hospital, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States
SUNY Upstate Hospital, Syracuse, New York, United States
UNC Hospital, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States
Vanderbuilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States
Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Southmead Hospital, Bristol, , United Kingdom
Oxford Center for Respiratory Medicine, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, , United Kingdom
Great Western Hospital, Swindon, , United Kingdom
Name: Joseph B Shrager, MD
Affiliation: Stanford University
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR