Efficacy of Drinking Water During Capsule Endoscopy

Shandong University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Capsule Endoscopy

Treatments: Other: control group; Other: drinking water group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04970277

2021SDU-QILU-054

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aims of this study are to evaluate the effect of early drinking water after the capsule ingestion on the gastrointestinal transit and image quality of capsule endoscopy.

Full description

Capsule endoscopy has been a significant technologic advancement that has allowed the direct examination of mucosa throughout the entire small intestine in a noninvasive fashion; and it has become the primary technique for imaging the small bowel. However, as imaging time is limited to about 8 hours, a prolonged transit of the capsule endoscope in the stomach may result in an incomplete small bowel transit (i.e. failure of the capsule to reach the cecum). Delayed transit time of stomach may be responsible for the failure of capsule endoscopy to visualize the distal portions of the small bowel, and potentially may result in the inability to identify small-bowel pathology in these areas. Previous study showed that drinking water might improve completion rate of capsule endoscopy. And bowel preparation of clear liquids may improve image quality of small bowel mucosa. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of drinking water on the transit time，completion rate and image quality of capsule endoscopy.

Enrollment: 120 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients aged 18-80 years undergoing capsule endoscopy

Exclusion criteria

1. Patients with suspected intestinal obstruction, intestinal diverticulum, stricture or fistula
2. previous gastric or small-bowel surgery
3. pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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120 participants in 2 patient groups

drinking water group

Experimental group

Description:

Patients in this group drink colorless water after capsule ingestion.

Treatment:

Other: drinking water group

control group

Other group

Description:

Patients in this group don't drink colorless water after capsule ingestion.

Treatment:

Other: control group