Intraoperative Fluorescence-Guided Aspirate Tissue Monitoring of 5-ALA During Brain Tumor Surgery

Study Purpose

Gliomas are tumors that occur in all ages; they include the most common malign primary central nervous system tumors in developed countries. Gliomas are often aggressive, and their recommended treatment is surgical resection and chemoradiation. Complete tumor removal is challenging because of diffuse cell growth and the proximity of functionally critical tissues. The current golden standard for intraoperative glioma detection is fluorescence-guided surgery (FGS) using 5-ALA. In 5-ALA FGS the drug-induced fluorescence helps to visually detect tumor cells, which improves resection rates and delays tumor progression. Tumor cells are often left unnoticed because of visual obstacles or weak fluorescence, which may lead to local recurrence and reoperations. Surgical suction devices are routinely used to remove cancerous tissues, but so far, the analysis of the suction waste has not been used in near real-time tissue detection.

Recruitment Criteria

Accepts Healthy Volunteers Healthy volunteers are participants who do not have a disease or condition, or related conditions or symptoms	No
Study Type An interventional clinical study is where participants are assigned to receive one or more interventions (or no intervention) so that researchers can evaluate the effects of the interventions on biomedical or health-related outcomes. An observational clinical study is where participants identified as belonging to study groups are assessed for biomedical or health outcomes. Searching Both is inclusive of interventional and observational studies.	Interventional
Eligible Ages	18 Years - 99 Years
Gender	All

More Inclusion & Exclusion Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Patient admitted to neurosurgery department for surgical resection of a suspected grade 3 or 4 glioma with 5-ALA (cases) - Patient admitted to neurosurgery department for surgical resection of a primary of secondary brain tumor with no 5-ALA (controls) - Patients aged 18 years old or older (all patients) - Informed consent obtained (all patients)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patient belongs to the following vulnerable groups: children, pregnant, prisoners or intellectually disabled.

- The participants are not randomized.

Randomization is not conducted as the number of eligible patients is limited, subjecting to a long recruitment period that reciprocally increases the bias from uncontrollable (evolving) surgical techniques and adjunct treatments.

- The patients are screened and informed of the study before the surgical operation and enrolled after verification of eligibility and written informed consent has been received.

Potential study participants are identified from the clinic's planned or urgent surgeries list. The participants are contacted before the operation by the research staff and/or the physician responsible for the treatment. The participants are provided with written and oral information about the research and the time to consider their participation. Finally, the participants are asked for their informed consent and enrolled to the study.

Trial Details

Trial ID: This trial id was obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov, a service of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, providing information on publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants with locations in all 50 States and in 196 countries.	NCT07111182
Phase Phase 1: Studies that emphasize safety and how the drug is metabolized and excreted in humans. Phase 2: Studies that gather preliminary data on effectiveness (whether the drug works in people who have a certain disease or condition) and additional safety data. Phase 3: Studies that gather more information about safety and effectiveness by studying different populations and different dosages and by using the drug in combination with other drugs. Phase 4: Studies occurring after FDA has approved a drug for marketing, efficacy, or optimal use.	N/A
Lead Sponsor The sponsor is the organization or person who oversees the clinical study and is responsible for analyzing the study data.	University of Illinois at Chicago
Principal Investigator The person who is responsible for the scientific and technical direction of the entire clinical study.	Fady T Charbel, MD
Principal Investigator Affiliation	University of Illinois at Chicago
Agency Class Category of organization(s) involved as sponsor (and collaborator) supporting the trial.	Other, Industry
Overall Status	Not yet recruiting
Countries
Conditions The disease, disorder, syndrome, illness, or injury that is being studied.	Brain Neoplasms

Additional Details

A novel medical device (HIVEN®) detects 5-ALA-induced fluorescence from the surgical suction and gives sound feedback to the operating surgeon indicating tumor tissue and overcoming the challenges is the contemporary FGS methods. The 5-ALA (Gleolan, NX Development Corp) has been already FDA-approved since 2017 for fluorescence-guided resection of suspected WHO grade 3 or 4 gliomas. The HIVEN® device has been investigated in Europe during 33 surgeries and the MDR (EU) 2017/745 approval was granted on 06/2025.The device is commercially available in the EU starting from 08/2025. The CE mark is approvedfor a Class IIb device risk classification. The current medical device study aims to demonstrate the feasibility and the benefit-risk ratio of HIVEN® for detecting tumor fluorescence from the surgical suction waste as a part of the FDA medical device process. The feedback from the device is expected to provide supplementary information on fluorescence and add value to fluorescence-guided surgical workflow.

Arms & Interventions

Arms

Other: Usability Assessment

Neurosurgeons and surgical nurses have assessed the usability, performance and safety of the device based on operation video recordings or user testing with high-grade glioma-simulating synthetic phantoms. neurosurgeons will use the HIVEN® during high-grade glioma surgeries in patients in authentic conditions according to the intended use and IFU and assessed its performance and benefit-risk profile. Surgical nurses gave feedback on the device's preoperative preparations and usability during the interventional study.

Interventions

Device: - HIVEN Medical Device

A medical device (HIVEN®) detects 5-ALA-induced fluorescence from the surgical suction and gives sound feedback to the operating surgeon indicating tumor tissue and overcoming the challenges is the contemporary FGS methods. The device is used for detecting fluorescence of flowing tissues within a transparent tube and providing auditory feedback of tissue fluorescence for neurosurgeons. There is no patient contact intended with this device.

Contact Information

This trial has no sites locations listed at this time. If you are interested in learning more, you can contact the trial's primary contact:

Fady T Charbel, MD

[email protected]

312-996-4842

For additional contact information, you can also visit the trial on clinicaltrials.gov.

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