EASE Trial: Exhale Airway Stents for Emphysema

PHASE3UnknownINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

450

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

May 31, 2006

Primary Completion Date

October 31, 2009

Study Completion Date

December 31, 2013

Conditions
Emphysema
Interventions
DEVICE

Exhale® Drug-Eluting Stent

Bronchoscopic procedure in which up to six Exhale Drug-Eluting Stents are placed in the lungs; total procedure time is 1 to 2 hours

DEVICE

Sham control

5-10 minute bronchoscopic procedure in which the lungs are examined and a bronchial lavage is performed; the bronchoscope is then retracted to a point above the carina and below the vocal folds for the remained of the time; total procedure time is about 1-2 hours

Trial Locations (37)

7

Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin

10016

New York University - Bellevue Hospital, New York

10032

Columbia University Medical Center, New York

11215

New York Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn

19104

University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia

21237

Pulmonary and Critical Care Associates of Baltimore, Baltimore

23507

Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, Norfolk

27710

Duke University Medical Center, Durham

28040

Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid

30322

Emory Healthcare, Atlanta

34239

Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, Sarasota

44195

Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland

48109

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

48202

Henry Ford Hospital & Medical Center, Detroit

52242

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City

55905

Mayo Clinic, Rochester

59802

International Heart Institute of Montana Foundation, Missoula

60190

Chicago Chest Center at Central DuPage Hospital, Winfield

61603

Peoria Pulmonary Associates, LTD, Peoria

62781

Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield

66421

Universitatsklinik des Saarlandes, Homburg

66606

Topeka Pulmonary/Veritas Clinical Specialties, LTD, Topeka

80206

National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver

85006

Pulmonary Associates, PA, Phoenix

90033

University of Southern California, Los Angeles

90048

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles

93701

UCSF-Fresno, Fresno

95817

University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento

02215

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston

Unknown

The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne

Otto Wagner Hospital, Vienna

90020-090

Santa Casa Hospital, Porto Alegre

N6A 4G5

London Health Sciences Centre, London

G1V 4G5

Hopital Laval, Québec

9700 RB

University Medical Center, Groningen, Groningen

CB23 3RE

Papworth Hospital, Cambridge

SW3 6NP

The Royal Brompton Hospital, London

Sponsors
All Listed Sponsors
lead

Broncus Technologies

INDUSTRY

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