NCT03524144

Upper Gastrointestinal Lesions in Crohn's Disease

Upper Gastrointestinal Lesions in Crohn's Disease: a Cross-sectional Cohort Study

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 160 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Sixth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

A cross-sectional study was performed from 2017 to 2018. Consecutive Crohn's disease patients diagnosed in the Inflammatory bowel disease center of the Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University were recruited. All patients underwent upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and biopsy by two defined endoscopists and two pathologists, the basic information were collected at the same time, in order to assess the prevalence of upper gastrointestinal involvement, and determine the role of upper gastrointestinal endoscopy in adult Crohn's disease patients, irrespective of upper gastrointestinal symptoms.

Conditions

• Upper Gastrointestinal Lesions
• Crohn's Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	gastroscopy	Two endoscopists performed upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and biopsy on all patients; and histological review was performed by two pathologists. From each patient, 10 specimens were taken from 6 areas in the upper gastrointestinal tract and basic informations was collected.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-06-01
• Primary completion: 2018-05-30
• Completion: 2018-05-30
• First posted: 2018-05-14
• Last updated: 2018-05-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China