NCT03016962

Usefulness of Cap-assisted Colonoscopy in Patients With Prior Abdominal Surgery

Usefulness of Cap-assisted Colonoscopy in Patients With Prior Abdominal Surgery: A Randomized, Controlled Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,046 (estimated)
• Sponsor: The Catholic University of Korea · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The potential benefit of using the cap is that it helps in luminal orientation at bends by keeping the colonic mucosa away from the lens at the colonoscope tip. Colonoscopy in patients with a history of abdominal surgery is considered to be difficult due to adhesion-related bowel angulations. There were few study evaluating usefulness of cap-assisted colonoscopy in patients with prior abdominal surgery. The investigators designed a randomized, controlled trial to verify the usefulness of cap-assisted colonoscopy in patients with prior abdominal surgery.

Detailed description

The potential benefit of using the cap is that it helps in luminal orientation at bends by keeping the colonic mucosa away from the lens at the colonoscope tip. This assists in negotiating sharp turns by better anticipation of the direction. Cap-assisted colonoscopy can be tried as a salvage procedure in cases of failed cecal intubation with regular colonoscopy. Colonoscopy in patients with a history of abdominal surgery is considered to be difficult due to adhesion-related bowel angulations. There were few study evaluating usefulness of cap-assisted colonoscopy in patients with prior abdominal surgery. The investigators designed a randomized, controlled trial to verify the usefulness of cap-assisted colonoscopy in patients with prior abdominal surgery.

Conditions

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Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	cap-assisted colonoscopy	cap-assisted colonoscopy
DEVICE	Standard colonoscopy	Standard colonoscopy

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-02-01
• Primary completion: 2020-01-01
• Completion: 2021-01-01
• First posted: 2017-01-11
• Last updated: 2017-01-11