NCT06219395

Capsule Endoscopy in Iron Deficiency Anaemia

Diagnostic Yield of Video Capsule Endoscopy for Iron Deficiency Anaemia

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Vastra Gotaland Region · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

This project aim to investigate whether wireless capsule endoscopy(WCE) has a similar diagnostic yield as conventional endoscopy in detecting the cause of iron deficiency anemia (IDA)

Detailed description

IDA is common and 90-95% of cases are caused by bleeding from ulcers, tumours or vascular malformations in the oesophagus, stomach, duodenum, small intestine or the large bowel.Bleeding from more than one localisation is common. International guidelines recommend bidirectional endoscopy(gastro- and colonoscopy) to detect and treat the source of bleeding. Our hypothesis is that WCE is non-inferior to the combination of gastroscopy and colonoscopy in locating GI-bleeding and that complete examinations will be achieved in ≥90% of the examinations.

Conditions

• Iron Deficiency Anemia
• Bowel Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Endoscopy	Patients will be examined with gastroscopy, colonoscopy and WCE and the diagnostic yield of combined gastroscopy/colonoscopy will be compared to WCE

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-03-01
• Primary completion: 2025-02-28
• Completion: 2025-09-30
• First posted: 2024-01-23
• Last updated: 2024-01-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden