Bowel Preparation and Prokinetics in Capsule Endoscopy

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 1969-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The aim of this study is to determine whether taking bowel preparation (citramag and senna) or a medicine to speed up transit through the stomach (metoclopramide), will improve the quality of the images seen, increase the transit through the small bowel, and increase the rate of completion of capsule endoscopy.

The secondary objective is to determine whether patients could routinely tolerate this bowel preparation prior to capsule endoscopy and whether the diagnostic yield of capsule endoscopy is improved.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: London North West Healthcare NHS Trust
• Treatments: Magnesium citrate; Metoclopramide

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients over 18 who have been referred for capsule endoscopy

Exclusion Criteria:

• Under 18

• Known or suspected gastrointestinal tract obstruction as this may impede passage of the capsule

• Known small bowel stricture or fistula as this may impede capsule passage

• Pregnancy, breast feeding or phaeochromocytoma as metoclopramide is contraindicated

• Recent gastrointestinal surgery in view of the risk of impeded capsule passage

• Permanent cardiac pacemaker or implantable defibrillator in-situ to avoid the risk of possible interference

• Congestive cardiac failure as citramag is contraindicated in such patients