Bowel Sounds Analysis in Paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Relationship With wPCDAI (SONO-MICI)

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Amiens

Status

Active, not recruiting

Conditions

Bowel Sounds

Intestinal Inflammation

Crohn Disease

Treatments

Other: Abdominal auscultation

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05955963

PI2021_843_0018

Details and patient eligibility

About

The precise and noninvasive evaluation of disease activity among patients with Crohn's disease is not easy, especially for children. It deals with clinical, biological, histological and radiological parameters.

Bowel sounds (BS) when evaluated by a stethoscope are modified by several factors including surgery, infection, drugs or intestinal inflammation. These factors can interact on intestinal motricity. There is a direct relationship between gastrointestinal motility and characteristics of BW. The study of BS using a stethoscope is a simple method, although operator dependent and subjective,with a wide inter and intraindividual variability. Some studies among adults showed interest in the spectral analysis of BS to assess gastrointestinal motility. This more precise and reproducible method is not operator dependent.

To date, no such study has evaluated the correlation between disease activity and the spectral pattern of BS.

of this project is to assess the correlation between disease activity and the spectral pattern of BS in pediatric Crohn's disease.

Enrollment

49 patients

Sex

All

Ages

4 to 17 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Crohn's Disease
Age between 4 and 17 years
Follow-up at CHU Amiens-Picardie

Exclusion criteria

Other diseases than Crohn's or treatments affecting the gastrointestinal tract, recent (< 3 months) surgery or refusal to participate (parents or children)