Efficacy of Wireless Capsule Endoscopy and CT Enterography in Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Mahidol University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Treatments: Procedure: CT enterography; Device: video capsule endoscopy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02219568

Si624/2013

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compare the efficacy between video capsule endoscopy and CT enterography in diagnosis of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding.

Full description

All adult patients with obscure gastrointestinal bleeding will undergo both video capsule endoscopy and CT enterography. The interval between two tests will be less than 1 month. The capsule reading gastroenterologist and the CT reading radiologist are blinded to each others' results.

Enrollment: 52 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients who present with passing melena or hematochezia or have iron deficiency anemia
• no lesion found on both esophagogastroduodenoscopy and colonoscopy
• age at least 18 years

Exclusion criteria

• allergy to iodinated intravenous contrast
• chronic kidney disease stage at least 3 patients who do not on regular dialysis
• suspected small bowel obstruction

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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52 participants in 1 patient group

obscure gastrointestinal bleeding

Experimental group

Description:

Those patients who developed obscure gastrointestinal bleeding either overt or occult bleeding who will then undergo video capsule endoscopy and CT enterography.

Treatment:

Procedure: CT enterography

Device: video capsule endoscopy