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Value of Speckle Tracking Echocardiography Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients

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Assiut University

Status

Not yet enrolling

Conditions

Echocardiography
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Cardiac Function

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06695065
Echocardiogray in IBD

Details and patient eligibility

About

Value of speckle tracking echocardiography in early assessment of cardiac function in inflammatory bowel disease .

Full description

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a common form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that consists of chronic inflammatory disorders of the colon and the small intestine with unknown etiology. Chronic inflammation is the basis of complicated pathogenesis, and the course of the disease is often complicated by an immune response. Malnutrition, malabsorption and the involvement of organs other than those of the gastrointestinal tract are frequent consequences of the disease . Although extra-intestinal manifestations of IBD are common (ranging from 6% to 47%), cardiac involvement is rare.

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). IBD patients have a two- to threefold increased risk of venous thromboembolism, particularly during acute flares when disrupted homeostasis of anti- and procoagulants leads to a hypofibrinolytic state. Cardiovascular manifestations in Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) include conditions such as Takayasu's arteritis, pericarditis, and myocarditis. Chronic inflammation and altered lipid metabolism, along with long-term use of anti-inflammatory drugs (e.g., corticosteroids, TNF-α inhibitors), are thought to drive CV pathology in IBD. Additionally, chronic inflammation is linked to pathological collagen deposition in affected organs.

Although conventional echocardiography is a widely accessible and easy tool to detect cardiac abnormalities, novel echocardiographic techniques and indices offer easy, reproducible and quantitative information for evaluating left ventricle function and subclinical changes . Speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) is an advanced echocardiographic methodology for the quantification of myocardial function. STE has been successfully used to identify early subclinical cardiac involvement in a variety of asymptomatic populations with chronic diseases and unremarkable conventional echocardiography. Unlike earlier echocardiography techniques, two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (2DSTE) is less angle-dependent. In addition, STE is not affected by the rotation of the heart and allows heart functions to be examined segment by segment from various echocardiographic views . Despite, studies have examined subclinical cardiac impairment in patients with IBD, to the best of our knowledge, none have explored the impact of ulcerative colitis activity on cardiac function through using STE.

Enrollment

100 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 60 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Age (18-60) yrs.
  • Both sexes.
  • Patients with IBD either in active form or in remission.

Exclusion criteria

  • Patients with ischemic heart disease. -Patients with other comorbidities affecting heart as uncontrolled hypertension or diabetes. -
  • Pregnant females.
  • Malignancy

Trial design

100 participants in 2 patient groups

Study group adult with ulcerative colitis
Description:
50 Adult patients with ulcerative colitis
control group
Description:
50 age and sex matched control group.

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Asmaa Abdelshafy Mohamed; Noor el_deen Abdelazeem Mohamed

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