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Plain Magnetic Resonance (MR) in the Assessment of Patients With Acute Abdomen

Z

Zealand University Hospital

Status

Withdrawn

Conditions

Acute Abdomen

Treatments

Device: MR scan

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01044173
N-20090033

Details and patient eligibility

About

At present, CT is the gold standard in the assessment of patients with acute abdomen. Yet, one CT of the abdomen exposes patients to a radiation dose equivalent to several years of background radiation. MR can be expected to yield the same information without ionizing radiation, but tends to be more time consuming. In this study, patients with nontraumatic acute abdominal pain referred to CT of the abdomen by the department of surgery will also have performed an additional MR scan covering the entire abdomen with few fast imaging sequences in approximately 15min. CT is the diagnostic test. The MR scan is only used for scientific purposes. It will be evaluated by a radiologist blinded for the results of the CT scan. Fourteen days after admission, a final diagnosis is established based on clinical, peroperative, pathological and lab. findings. The performance of CT and MR will then be compared. The investigators hypothesize that MR can provide a diagnostic accuracy comparable to CT.

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Signed informed consent form
  • Age > 18 years old
  • Nontraumatic acute abdomen
  • Weight < 120kg
  • Can keep apnoea for 15s
  • Surgeon in charge considers patient fit for participation in study

Exclusion criteria

  • Contraindications of MRI
  • Suspicion of acute vascular disease
  • Severe cardial or pulmonal insufficiency
  • Pregnancy
  • Untreated psychiatric illness

Trial design

Primary purpose

Diagnostic

Allocation

Non-Randomized

Interventional model

Single Group Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

Trial contacts and locations

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