Protocol: Reconstruct the Pelvic Peritoneum Using BPF

NCT ID: NCT04177407

Last Updated: 2020-05-13

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

30 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-03-23

Study Completion Date

2021-12-31

Brief Summary

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Background: Extralevator abdominoperineal excision (ELAPE) may cause various surgical complications including disruption of perineal wound, perineal hernia and adhesive small-bowel obstruction. Pelvic peritoneum reconstruction could prevent those complications, but it may not always be achievable, especially in patients with severe pelvic fibrosis after neoadjuvant radiotherapy. Previous study has reported the application of the pelvic peritoneum reconstruction using the bladder peritoneum flap in laparoscopic ELAPE. The aim of the study is to evaluate the short-term clinical, technical and safety outcomes of pelvic peritoneum reconstruction using the bladder peritoneum flap in laparoscopic ELAPE.

Methods/Design: This is a single -center prospective cohort study and fulfill the IDEAL 2A stage principle. Rectal cancer patients after neoadjuvant radiotherapy and about to undergo laparoscopic ELAPE will be included. Main exclusion criteria are being complicated with urgent complications, ASA grade \> 3 and accompanied with mental illness. Patients suffering rigid pelvis or huge perineal peritoneum defect, and having difficulty in primary perineal wound closure will be considered eligible for the baldder peritoneum flap (BPF) group; corresponding rectal cancer patients will be allocated to the control group. After informed consent, 10 patients are planned to be included in the BPF group. Standard laparoscopic ELAPE with pelvic peritoneal floor reconstruction using BPF are to be performed. The surgical safety is to be evaluated after one-year follow-up. Primary endpoints are the occurrence of intraoperative and postoperative complications of pelvic peritoneum reconstruction after ELAPE. Second endpoints are overall complication rate within 30 days after surgery, extent of small intestine falling down to pelvic cavity, and other follow-up consequences within 1 year after surgery.

Detailed Description

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In rectal cancers, the overall survival will benefit strongly if a negative incisional margin is reached. In order to pursue a negative margin, APR, expecially the extralevator abdominoperineal excision (ELAPE) which introduced by Holm et al had been used to improve the oncological outcome in T3 and T4 rectal cancer. However, ELAPE could bring a gaping hole beyond repair in the pelvic cavity, leading to serious perineal injury and small bowel dropping into pelvic cavity inevitably. Pelvic peritoneal defects can also result in perineal hernia and adhesive small-bowel obstruction (ASBO).

Reconstruction the pelvic peritoneum could prevent the small intestine adhering to the true pelvis by keeping it in the abdominal cavity, thus decrease the occurrence of ASBO and other perineal complications. However, pelvic peritoneum reconstruction may not always be feasible especially in those patients who had received a neoadjuvant radiotherapy and suffered severe tissue fibrosis or those patients who have a large defect of pelvic peritoneum.

Recently the investigators have reported a novel method to reconstruct the pelvic peritoneum under laparoscope in patients with a rigid pelvis. A bladder peritoneum flap was used to cover the defect of pelvic peritoneum. Previous attempts have proved the feasibility of the pelvic peritoneum reconstruction using the bladder peritoneum flap in laparoscopic ELAPE. This protocol is a further study to verify its short-term clinical, technical and safety outcomes.

The objective of this study is to evaluate the short-term clinical, technical and safety outcomes of pelvic peritoneum reconstruction using the bladder peritoneum flap in laparoscopic ELAPE.

This is a multi-center, prospective development study. The method of PPR using the bladder peritoneum flap in laparoscopic ELAPE is at the development stage. And this protocol fulfills the requirement of IDEAL framework stage 2A. Approval of the ethics committee has been obtained from the ethics committee of West China Hospital, Sichuan University (2019 No. 194). The present study was registered on the clinicaltrials.gov. Any technology amendments will be presented to the institutional review board for further assessment. Benefits and risks of the study will be informed to participants. Only participants who signed an informed consent form and agree to participate will be included in this study. Participants have the right to quit the study at any time without any reason. In emergency circumstances, surgeons have the right to end the study. Data of the details will be stored in a database and published after the trial.

Conditions

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Rectal Cancer

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

This is a single-center prospective cohort study and fulfill the IDEAL 2A stage principle. Rectal cancer patients undergoing laparoscopic ELAPE, suffering rigid pelvis or huge perineal peritoneum defect, and having difficulty in primary perineal wound closure will be considered eligible. Main exclusion criteria are being complicated with urgent complications, ASA grade \> 3 and accompanied with mental illness. Standard laparoscopic ELAPE with pelvic peritoneal floor reconstruction using bladder peritoneum flap are to performed.
Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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BPF group

Standard laparoscopic ELAPE with pelvic peritoneal floor reconstruction using bladder peritoneum flap are to performed.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Standard laparoscopic ELAPE with pelvic peritoneal floor reconstruction using bladder peritoneum flap are to performed.

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Standard laparoscopic ELAPE with pelvic peritoneal floor reconstruction using bladder peritoneum flap are to performed.

control group

Regarding to the pelvic peritoneum reconstruction, in control group, the pelvic peritoneum will be closed with running suturing. If not possible, the peritoneum covering the surface of the bladder will be secured on the anterior surface of the sacrum with nonabsorbable sutures at the level where the anatomic structure obliterates the pelvic entrance. If neither method was feasible, the pelvic peritoneum defect will be left unclosed.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Standard laparoscopic ELAPE with pelvic peritoneal floor reconstruction using bladder peritoneum flap are to performed.

Standard laparoscopic ELAPE with pelvic peritoneal floor reconstruction using bladder peritoneum flap are to performed.

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Male patients aged between 18 to 75.
* ASA grade ≤ 3.
* Pathology confirmed as rectal adenocarcinoma;
* Lower rectal cancer with neoadjuvant (chemo)radiotherapy, and an APR was needed;
* The pelvic peritoneum can't be close by direct suture;
* Patients being able to understand the study protocol and willing to participate in the study, providing written informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria

* Bladder invaded by tumor or primary bladder cancer.
* severe systemic diseases abibuffecting wound healing (e.g. diabetes, liver cirrhosis or immune compromised status like HIV)
* Sensitivity to anti-adhesion barrier.
* Peritoneal implantation.
* History of severe mental illness.
* Continuous systemic steroid therapy recent 1 month
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

75 Years

Eligible Sex

MALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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West China Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Ziqiang Wang,MD

Director of Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Ziqiang Wang

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

West China Hospital

Locations

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West China Hospital

Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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China

Central Contacts

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Yu Shen

Role: CONTACT

17606441760

Facility Contacts

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Yu Shen, MD

Role: primary

17606441760

References

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Holm T, Ljung A, Haggmark T, Jurell G, Lagergren J. Extended abdominoperineal resection with gluteus maximus flap reconstruction of the pelvic floor for rectal cancer. Br J Surg. 2007 Feb;94(2):232-8. doi: 10.1002/bjs.5489.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 17143848 (View on PubMed)

Yang T, Wei M, Deng X, Meng W, Wang Z. A Novel Laparoscopic Technique With a Bladder Peritoneum Flap Closure for Pelvic Cavity for Patients With Rigid Pelvic Peritoneum After Neoadjuvant Radiotherapy in Laparoscopic Extralevator Abdominoperineal Excision. Dis Colon Rectum. 2019 Sep;62(9):1136-1140. doi: 10.1097/DCR.0000000000001435.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 31318767 (View on PubMed)

Aggarwal N, Seshadri RA, Arvind A, Jayanand SB. Perineal Wound Complications Following Extralevator Abdominoperineal Excision: Experience of a Regional Cancer Center. Indian J Surg Oncol. 2018 Jun;9(2):211-214. doi: 10.1007/s13193-018-0741-y. Epub 2018 Apr 14.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 29887703 (View on PubMed)

Butt HZ, Salem MK, Vijaynagar B, Chaudhri S, Singh B. Perineal reconstruction after extra-levator abdominoperineal excision (eLAPE): a systematic review. Int J Colorectal Dis. 2013 Nov;28(11):1459-68. doi: 10.1007/s00384-013-1660-6. Epub 2013 Feb 26.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 23440362 (View on PubMed)

McCulloch P, Cook JA, Altman DG, Heneghan C, Diener MK; IDEAL Group. IDEAL framework for surgical innovation 1: the idea and development stages. BMJ. 2013 Jun 18;346:f3012. doi: 10.1136/bmj.f3012.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 23778427 (View on PubMed)

Bengtsson S, Hambraeus A, Laurell G. Wound infections after surgery in a modern operating suite: clinical, bacteriological and epidemiological findings. J Hyg (Lond). 1979 Aug;83(1):41-57. doi: 10.1017/s002217240002581x.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 379212 (View on PubMed)

Christensen HK, Nerstrom P, Tei T, Laurberg S. Perineal repair after extralevator abdominoperineal excision for low rectal cancer. Dis Colon Rectum. 2011 Jun;54(6):711-7. doi: 10.1007/DCR.0b013e3182163c89.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 21552056 (View on PubMed)

Shen Y, Yang T, Deng X, Yang J, Meng W, Wang Z. Pelvic peritoneum reconstruction using the bladder peritoneum flap in laparoscopic extralevator abdominoperineal excision: A multi-center, prospective single-arm cohort study (IDEAL Phase 2A). Medicine (Baltimore). 2020 Jun 19;99(25):e20712. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000020712.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 32569206 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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MC-SA-2019

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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