# An Early Safety and Efficacy Study of Ascites Management: Standard Paracentesis or Early Intervention With Pleurx Catheters in Patients With Malignant Ascites

> **NCT01077063** · NA · TERMINATED · sponsor: **Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins** · enrollment: 7 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Malignant Ascites

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** paracentesis
- **DEVICE:** Pleurx catheter

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT01077063
- **Lead sponsor:** Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** TERMINATED
- **Start date:** 2010-02
- **Primary completion:** 2013-08
- **Final completion:** 2013-08
- **Target enrollment:** 7 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** Study was closed by PI because of low enrollment.
- **Last updated:** 2015-10-29


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01077063

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT01077063, "An Early Safety and Efficacy Study of Ascites Management: Standard Paracentesis or Early Intervention With Pleurx Catheters in Patients With Malignant Ascites". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-02 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT01077063. Licensed CC0.

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