Risk Factors for Recurrence of Trigeminal Neuralgia After Percutaneous Balloon Compression

The goal of this observational study is to develop and validate a machine learning-based model for predicting pain recurrence risk after percutaneous balloon compression (PBC) in adult patients with primary trigeminal neuralgia (TN) who had their first PBC treatment. The main questions it aims to answer are: Can the machine learning-based model accurately predict pain recurrence after PBC in these primary TN patients? What key factors (like patient baseline traits, imaging parameters, surgical operation data) affect PBC post-operative pain recurrence? Do machine learning algorithms perform better than traditional Cox proportional hazards regression in predicting such recurrence? Participants (with existing PBC treatment records) will have their past data-including clinical info from the hospital's electronic medical record system, imaging data from the image archiving system, surgical data from the surgical anesthesia system, and follow-up data from the outpatient system-collected and analyzed to build and validate the prediction model.

NCT Number	NCT07238244
Lead Sponsor	Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University Collaborators: Yueyang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Conditions	Trigeminal Neuralgia
Enrollment	700 participants
Start Date	2025-12-15
Primary Completion	2026-02-15 (estimated)
Study Completion	2026-03-15 (estimated)
Updated on ClinicalTrials.gov	2025-11-20