Split-dose Versus Single-dose Polyethylene Glycol Regimen for Capsule Endoscopy

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2015-05-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

To compare the small bowel cleanliness for wireless capsule endoscopy using two different Polyethylene Glycol administration schedules (before the wireless capsule endoscopy ingestion versus in a split-dose fashion).

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Ocidental

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• All adult patients referred to our institution for CE during the study period

Exclusion Criteria:

• inpatients, bedridden, patients with clinical evidence of active bleeding, past history of abdominal surgery, abdominal or pelvic radiation therapy, occlusion, bowel perforation (suspected or confirmed), use of oral iron replacement therapy, severe cardiopulmonary, renal or hepatic disease, pregnancy, hypersensitivity to any components of the preparation, patients that didn't complete the preparation protocol, patients with incomplete enteroscopies (a complete enteroscopy is defined by the visualization of the mucosa from the duodenal bulb to the cecum), patients enrolled in other clinical studies and patients who didn't signed informed consent.