NCT04704752

Swallowing Characteristics of Pediatric Patients With Eosinophilic Esophagitis

Clinical Characteristics of Swallowing in Pediatric Patients With Eosinophilic Esophagitis

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 52 (actual)
• Sponsor: Gazi University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 2 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE) can affect patients all age group and clinical symptoms of the disease varies depending on the patient's ages. Infants and toddlers with EoE generally have food refusal, vomiting and poor weight gain. Older school-aged children and adolescents may have abdominal and chest pain, difficulty in swallowing (dysphagia) especially in solid foods. In the meantime, many children especially infants and toddlers, are not perceptive of their dysphagia, because they have the ability to compensate. Such as, avoiding certain textures or increases liquid intake in the meal.To date, to our knowledge, there is no study in the literature has investigated complex swallowing behaviour (including all phases), oral-motor evaluation and/or swallowing safety. Thus, the present study purposed to investigate (a) descriptive and clinical swallowing characteristics of children with EoE (b) the relation between disease characteristic and swallowing function.

Conditions

• Eosinophilic Esophagitis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	Swallowing Evaluation	Study Evaluation includes basic test batteries. These are observational.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-05-25
• Primary completion: 2021-01-25
• Completion: 2021-05-20
• First posted: 2021-01-12
• Last updated: 2021-10-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)