Tiny coils may offer relief for hemorrhoid sufferers without surgery
NCT ID NCT02303925
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tested a new, minimally invasive procedure for people with grade II or III hemorrhoids. Instead of surgery, doctors used tiny coils to block the main artery supplying blood to the hemorrhoids, aiming to shrink them and reduce pain. The study included 26 participants and measured pain relief and symptom improvement over a year.
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Study facts
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- 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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26 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Dec 2014
- Finished
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Jun 2018
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
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- Ages
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18 to 75 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
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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: * Suffering from a symptomatic hemorrhoidal disease stage II or III (history of prior medical treatment or instrumental do not prohibit the inclusion in the study) * Patient agreeing to participate in the study and who signed an informed consent * Patient willing to lend to post-operative monitoring for a year * Patient assured social Exclusion Criteria: * Diseases and colorectal proctologic / History proctologic * Acute Complication hemorrhoidal disease course (thrombosis) * History of proctology surgery for hemorrhoidal disease * Anal stenosis congenital or acquired * Chronic anal fissure, anal suppuration associated * Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Disease * History of colorectal cancer * History of rectal resection and / or sigmoid * Rectal prolapse * Comorbidities * Portal hypertension * Severe atherosclerotic pathology (significant stenosis in aorto-iliac-femoral artery or branches for visceral). * General Affection responsible for a disorder of hemostasis objective (hemophilia, von Willebrand disease thrombocytopenia) and anticoagulants. * Psychiatric disorder making it impossible informed of and / or postoperative care * Neurological disease directly or indirectly involving the rectosphinctérienne motor (multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury or nerve root, polyneuropathy). * Patients whose condition appears too insecure or taking steroids or immunosuppressive leading to an unacceptable surgical risk. * Background * Pregnancy declared (the existence of effective contraception will be checked for women of childbearing age) * Major Trust * Patients who do not speak French, refusing or unfit for monitoring proposed in the study
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Marseille
Marseille, Marseille, 13005, France
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