The Best Dosage and Timing of Polyethylene Glycol for Bowel Preparation Before Capsule Endoscopy

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2017-06-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The aim of this study is to evaluate the ideal dose of PEG and timing of bowel preparation in patients referred for CE examination.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Zhizheng Ge
• Collaborators: Huashan Hospital; Shanghai East Hospital; Shanghai Tong Ren Hospital; Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients aged between 18 and 75 years and referred to capsule endoscopy because of suspected small-bowel disease are prospectively eligible for entry into the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Age < 18 or > 75 years

• Known or suspected GI stricture or fistula

• A history of GI tract resection

• Swallowing disorders

• Intensive therapy with fasting and parenteral nutrition;with a disease that may reduce movement of the GI tract, such as diabetes mellitus

• Medications that could affect gastrointestinal movement within one week

• Implanted with a medical electronic device

• Active inflammatory bowel disease, toxic megacolon, toxic colitis

• Severe pulmonary, cardiac, renal, or hepatic disease

• Uncontrolled hypertension (systolic blood pressure>170 mm Hg, diastolic blood pressure>100 mm Hg);

• Disturbance of electrolytes

• Pregnancy or lactation

• Patients inability to provide written voluntary informed consent

• Participation in another clinical study