Pilot Study of the Safety and Efficacy of Trans-radial Superior Rectal Artery Embolisation for the Treatment of Haemorrhoids

Status: Recruiting
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Intervention Type: Procedure
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY

Endovascular embolisation is already a common procedure for bleeding haemorrhoids in the acute setting, where surgical options are not possible or have been exhausted. This pilot study aims to add to the small body of evidence that transarterial embolisation of symptomatic haemorrhoids is also safe and effective in the elective setting, providing a good alternative to conventional surgical management. This is a day case procedure that is performed under local anaesthetic. For selected patients, this presents a less invasive management option with reduced potential morbidity. For a health care system under significant financial stress, this provides a potential means of cost improvement, the extent of which this study will try and quantify. A series of 20 selected patients will be recruited to undergo this procedure and then followed up for 24 months. The long-term goal of this pilot study is to form the basis of a national registry of such procedures.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 18
Healthy Volunteers: f
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⁃ Patients eligible for the study must comply with all of the following prior to enrolment:

• Patients with grade II-IV haemorrhoid disease with re-current or active bleeding

• Patients with (i) who do not wish to undergo surgery for their symptoms

• Patients with (i) despite recent surgery

• Patients willing and able to give fully informed consent

• Patients aged ≥18 years

Locations
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United Kingdom
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
RECRUITING
Stoke-on-trent
Time Frame
Start Date: 2025-07-17
Estimated Completion Date: 2026-12
Participants
Target number of participants: 20
Treatments
Other: Trans-radial embolisation of haemorrhoids
Haemorrhoids will be treated using arterial embolisation, using a trans-radial approach
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust

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