Chyme Reinfusion for Type 2 Intestinal Failure

Last updated: May 4, 2025
Sponsor: The Insides Company
Overall Status: Active - Recruiting

Phase

N/A

Condition

Ileus

Treatment

The Insides System

Clinical Study ID

NCT04577456
TICL-001 G190281
  • Ages > 21
  • All Genders

Study Summary

This project aims to introduce and evaluate a novel assistive prosthetic system that helps prevent and treat nutrient and fluid loss from enterocutaneous fistulas. The device system functions simply to return the output from a fistula back into the distal limb of the intestine.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Age ≥ 21 years

  • Able to provide written informed consent

  • Dependent on parenteral nutrition (PN)

  • DES/ECF with exposed afferent and efferent limbs visible on the abdominal wall

  • Minimum of 2 weeks post DES/ECF creation

  • Distal limb of DES/ECF opening can be intubated by a minimum 24Fr feeding tube (dilatation of orifice strictures is allowable)

Exclusion

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Insufficient distal access channel (distal limb) for device insertion

  • Bowel obstruction proximal to the DES/ECF

  • Small bowel obstruction, anastomotic leak, or perforation distal to the DES/ECF (diagnostic procedure such as gastrografin test, fistulograms, or similar must beperformed, if there is a distal anastomosis with integrity not previously evaluated,to ensure that the subject is eligible)

  • Scheduled for DES/ECF reversal within 4 weeks of enrolment date

  • Current infection with Clostridium difficile colitis

  • Current infection small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO)

  • Signs or symptoms of systemic infection

  • Pre-existing gastrointestinal motility disorders including slow transitconstipation, outlet obstruction, fecal incontinence, and gastroparesis

  • Metabolic, neurogenic, or endocrine disorders known to cause colonic dysmotility,e.g., multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, hypothyroidism

  • Known peritoneal metastatic disease prior to DES/ECF closure (acceptable if onlydiscovered at time of closure)

  • Liver cirrhosis

  • Hereditary coagulopathy, e.g., von Willebrand disease

  • Severe chronic renal insufficiency prior to DES/ECF formation (eGFR<30mL/min/1.73m2)

  • Active implantable medical devices such as neuromodulation and cardiac systems

  • Metal stents implanted within 20cm of expected use of the controller

  • Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding

  • Subjects participating in an interventional clinical study within 30 days prior torandomization

Study Design

Total Participants: 40
Treatment Group(s): 1
Primary Treatment: The Insides System
Phase:
Study Start date:
October 15, 2022
Estimated Completion Date:
March 31, 2026

Study Description

The development of enterocutaneous fistulas are devastating consequences of surgery or surgical diseases. They cause excessive fluid and nutrient losses from the gut resulting in severe dehydration and intestinal failure mandating invasive medical therapies to improve survival. These disorders inflict a vast burden of suffering, morbidity, and mortality on patients, while extracting enormous per-patient resources from healthcare systems. Parenteral nutrition is often required, meaning prolonged hospital stay, an attendant risk of line sepsis, venous damage and thrombosis, liver impairment, and death.

There is a pressing demand for breakthrough technologies that can restore lost fluids and nutrients to the body in patients affected by enterocutaneous fistulas in order to reverse intestinal failure, eliminate the need for parenteral nutrition, prevent dehydration and renal injury, allow safe care in the community, enable chemotherapy completion, and restore quality of life.

Connect with a study center

  • Addenbrooke's Hospital

    Cambridge, CB2 0QQ
    United Kingdom

    Site Not Available

  • Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital

    Exeter, EX2 5DW
    United Kingdom

    Active - Recruiting

  • St James Hospital

    Leeds, LS9 7TF
    United Kingdom

    Active - Recruiting

  • St Marks Hospital

    London, NW107NS
    United Kingdom

    Active - Recruiting

  • Salford Royal Hospital

    Manchester, M6 8HD
    United Kingdom

    Active - Recruiting

  • Nottingham University Hospital

    Nottingham, NG5 1PB
    United Kingdom

    Active - Recruiting

  • University Hospital Southampton

    Southampton, SO16 6YD
    United Kingdom

    Completed

  • Shands Hospital

    Gainesville, Florida 32611
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • University Miami Hospital and Clinics

    Miami, Florida 33136
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • University Illinois

    Chicago, Illinois 60607
    United States

    Completed

  • Massachusetts General Medical Center

    Boston, Massachusetts 02145
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • Henry Ford Medical Center

    Detroit, Michigan 48202
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • University Nebraska

    Lincoln, Nebraska 68198
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • University of Nebraska

    Lincoln, Nebraska 68198
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

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