NCT01497847

Post-Infectious Irritable Bowel Syndrome (PI-IBS)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 131 (actual)
• Sponsor: KU Leuven · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Purpose: * identification of factors predisposing for Post-Infectious Irritable Bowel Syndrome (PI-IBS) development after an episode of traveler's diarrhea * identification of systemic (serum) and local (biopsy) changes in infectious and immunological activity during infection and correlation with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) symptoms, persisting after traveler's diarrhea Design: * 4 study visits: before traveling, 2 weeks after traveling, 6 months after traveling, 12 months after traveling * at each study visit following investigations: blood collection, stool collection, questionnaires, rectal biopsy

Conditions

• Irritable Bowel Syndrome With Diarrhea

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-03-01
• Primary completion: 2013-02-01
• Completion: 2013-02-01
• First posted: 2011-12-23
• Last updated: 2013-04-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium