Freezing spray could help patients breathe easier without repeat surgeries
NCT ID NCT04996173
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests whether adding a freezing spray (cryospray) to usual treatments can keep narrowed airways open longer in people with benign airway stenosis. About 40 adults will be randomly assigned to get either standard care alone or standard care plus cryospray. The goal is to see if the cryospray reduces scar tissue and delays the need for repeat procedures.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 40 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Oct 2021
- Expected to finish
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Apr 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Referral to interventional pulmonology or ENT for endoscopic management of suspected benign tracheal stenosis. 2. Significant tracheal stenosis defined by stenosis ≥ 50% of tracheal lumen assessed on chest CT or symptomatology warranting evaluation. 3. Able to provide informed consent 4. Age \> 18 Exclusion Criteria: 1. Inability to provide informed consent. 2. Pregnancy 3. Known or suspected malignant central airway stenosis 4. Patient has already been enrolled in this study. 5. Study subject has any disease or condition that interferes with safe completion of the study including: 1. Hypoxemia with need for supplemental oxygen ≥ 2L/min by nasal canula 2. Recent pneumothorax in the previous 12 months 3. Severe COPD (defined as a FEV1/FVC \< 70% and FEV1 \< 30% predicted) and/or severe persistent asthma. 4. Hemodynamic instability with systolic blood pressure \<90 mmHg or heart rate \> 120 beats/min, unless deemed to be stable with these values by the attending physicians. 5. Prior complications with SCT 6. Contraindication to rigid bronchoscopy 7. Significant tracheomalacia or alterations in cartilage integrity that would require stent placement or surgical referral as assessed by CT imaging. 8. Greater then 1 BCAS intervention within 6 months before enrollment
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, Mississippi, 39216, United States
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, Tennessee, 37232, United States
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Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia, 23219, United States
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