Powder could replace needles and clips for stomach bleeds
NCT ID NCT06188585
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study compares a new hemostatic powder, Nexpowder™, to standard treatments (like clips, heat, or injections) for stopping high-risk bleeding in the upper digestive tract. About 278 adults with active bleeding from ulcers, tumors, or tears will be randomly assigned to one of the two approaches. The main goal is to see if the powder works as well as standard therapy in preventing further bleeding within 7 days.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Nexpowder™ (hemostatic powder)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could offer a simpler, equally effective first-line treatment for serious upper gastrointestinal bleeding, potentially reducing the need for more complex procedures.
- What could go wrong
- This is a non-inferiority trial, meaning it only aims to show the powder is not worse than standard care, not that it is better. The study is still recruiting, and results may not apply to all bleeding types.
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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 278 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jun 2024
- Expected to finish
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Sep 2029
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
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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22 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. Adults age 22 years or older 2. Presentation with acute overt gastrointestinal bleeding (hematemesis, melena, and/or hematochezia) 3. Subject voluntarily agrees to participate in the clinical investigation, provides written informed consent, and will be able to comply with the investigational protocol in the opinion of the site investigator 4. Cause of bleeding as determined at upper endoscopy is one of the following sources: a gastric or duodenal ulcer with active bleeding (spurting or oozing) or a non-bleeding visible vessel; an esophageal, gastric or duodenal tumor with active bleeding or a non-bleeding visible vessel; a gastric or duodenal Dieulafoy lesion with active bleeding or a non-bleeding visible vessel; or an actively bleeding Mallory-Weiss tear. The definition of "active oozing" will require bleeding to persist for ≥ 3 minutes of endoscopic observation. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Incarceration 2. Subjects that are not able to provide written informed consent 3. Pregnancy or nursing mothers 4. Endoscopic hemostatic treatment in the past 30 days 5. Use of triple antithrombotic therapy at the time of presentation 6. Subjects who underwent gastric or duodenal endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) or endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) procedures within the past 2 months 7. Post-polypectomy bleeding 8. Subjects with erosive esophagitis, erosive gastritis, esophageal ulcer, or vascular ectasia including gastric antral vascular ectasia 9. Platelet count \< 50 x 10\^9/L 10. INR \> 3.5 (or prothrombin time \>35 seconds in patient not on warfarin and only prothrombin time is provided by local lab), at time of procedure or closest to procedure time 11. Subjects who have documented galactose intolerance, Lapp lactase deficiency or glucose-galactose malabsorption 12. Subjects with documented hypersensitivity to Brilliant Blue FCF 13. Subjects with suspected bowel obstruction or gastrointestinal fistulas, and those suspected or are at high risk of having gastrointestinal perforation. 14. Endoscopy not performed within 36 hours of presentation to hospital/emergency department
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
How to take part
Only the study team decides who joins. These are the ways to reach them.
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The places running it
14 sites in 6 countries. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
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A doctor treating you
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Brigham and Women's Hospital
RECRUITINGBoston, Massachusetts, 02115, United States
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Cleveland Clinic London
RECRUITINGLondon, United Kingdom
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Copenhagen University Hospital
RECRUITINGHvidovre, Denmark
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Emek Medical Center
RECRUITINGAfula, Israel
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McGill University
RECRUITINGMontreal, Quebec, Canada
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NYU Langone
RECRUITINGNew York, New York, 10016, United States
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Northwell Health
RECRUITINGManhasset, New York, 11030, United States
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Odense University Hospital
RECRUITINGOdense, Denmark
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RUSH University
RECRUITINGChicago, Illinois, 60612, United States
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Rutgers University
RECRUITINGPiscataway, New Jersey, 08901, United States
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St. Antoine
RECRUITINGParis, France
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St. Michael's Hospital
RECRUITINGToronto, Canada
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Vancouver General Hospital
RECRUITINGVancouver, Canada
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Yale
RECRUITINGNew Haven, Connecticut, 06520, United States