CraniSeal Post Approval Study

February 19, 2026 updated by: Pramand LLC

A Multicenter, Single-Blind, Prospective Randomized Post-Approval Study Comparing the Safety and Effectiveness of CraniSeal Dural Sealant to DuraSeal Dural Sealant for Dural Sealing in Elective Cranial Surgery

To collect post-approval data comparing the safety and effectiveness of CraniSeal Dural Sealant to DuraSeal Dural Sealant. The study has been powered specifically to determine whether the CraniSeal device when used as an adjunct to sutured dural closure following elective cranial surgery is no worse than (i.e., non-inferior) to the DuraSeal device with respect to proportion of subjects free from post-operative cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leaks. Additional safety outcomes (i.e., surgical site infections and adverse events/device-related adverse events) will also be captured and compared.

Study Overview

Status

Recruiting

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Estimated)

224

Phase

  • Phase 4

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Contact

Study Locations

    • California
      • Los Angeles, California, United States, 90033
        • Completed
        • Keck Medical Center at USC
    • Florida
      • Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 32224
        • Recruiting
        • Mayo Clinic
      • Tampa, Florida, United States, 33606
        • Recruiting
        • Tampa General Hospital
    • Georgia
      • Augusta, Georgia, United States, 30912
        • Recruiting
        • Augusta University
    • Massachusetts
      • Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115
        • Recruiting
        • Brigham and Women's Hospital
        • Contact:
          • Phone Number: 6177325500
    • Minnesota
      • Rochester, Minnesota, United States, 55905
        • Recruiting
        • Mayo Clinic
    • New York
      • Buffalo, New York, United States, 14203
        • Recruiting
        • Jacobs institute
        • Contact:
          • Phone Number: 7168884805
    • South Carolina
      • Greenville, South Carolina, United States, 29605

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

General Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Patient is ≥ 18 years of age
  2. Patient is scheduled for an elective infratentorial or supratentorial cranial procedure under general anesthesia that entails a dural incision
  3. Patient requires a procedure involving surgical wound classification Class I/Clean
  4. Patient signs a written Informed Consent form to participate in the study, prior to any study mandated determinations or procedures.
  5. Patients who are able to comply with study requirements.

General Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Patient requires a procedure involving translabyrinthine, transsphenoidal, transoral and/ or any procedure that penetrates the air sinus or mastoid air cells; superficial penetration of air cells are not excluded
  2. Patient has had a prior intracranial neurosurgical procedure in the same anatomical location
  3. Patient with diagnosis of severely altered renal (creatinine levels > 2.0 mg/dL) or hepatic (total bilirubin > 2.5 mg/dL) function
  4. Patient diagnosed with a compromised immune system or autoimmune disease (WBC count less than 4000/uL or greater than 20,000/uL)
  5. Patients undergoing cranial procedures involving petrous bone drilling
  6. Patients with traumatic injuries to the head or dural disease in planned dural closure area
  7. Patients who are pregnant or lactating
  8. Patient with an active infection
  9. Patient is undergoing cranial procedures involving non-autologous duraplasty material that are not collagen based
  10. Patients requiring re-opening of planned surgical area within 90 days after surgery.
  11. Patient with a known allergy to FD&C Blue #1 dye
  12. Patient is not able to tolerate multiple Valsalva maneuvers, or transient elevation of CSF pressure during Valsalva maneuvers is not possible (e.g. the presence of a temporary or permanent CSF shunt
  13. Presence of hydrocephalus
  14. Patient with a diagnosis of uncontrolled diabetes (e.g., persistent HbA1c elevation of >9% despite standard diabetes care),
  15. Patient has a documented, uncorrectable clinically significant coagulopathy (e.g., PTT>37 seconds or INR >1.5 units)
  16. Patient is not likely to comply with the follow-up evaluation schedule.
  17. Contraindications to both an MRI and CT scan.
  18. Patients participating in any investigational device study within 30 days or currently receiving an investigational drug/biologic therapy. (Observational studies on FDA approved products are not applicable)
  19. Patients diagnosed with Meningiomatosis (multiple meningiomas)

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Single

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: CraniSeal
CraniSeal is a PEG Dural Sealant
Active Comparator: DuraSeal
DuraSeal is a PEG Dural Sealant

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Absence of CSF Leaks
Time Frame: 90 days
absence of CSF leaks on study
90 days

Other Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
TEAEs and TESAEs
Time Frame: 90 days
treatment emergent events on study
90 days

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

May 29, 2024

Primary Completion (Estimated)

February 1, 2027

Study Completion (Estimated)

February 1, 2027

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

May 6, 2024

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

May 6, 2024

First Posted (Actual)

May 9, 2024

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

February 20, 2026

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 19, 2026

Last Verified

February 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

Yes

product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.

No

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