Status:

RECRUITING

Pre-stenotic Inflammation Following Endoscopic Balloon Dilatation in Crohn's Disease: A Prospective Study

Lead Sponsor:

Shaare Zedek Medical Center

Collaborating Sponsors:

Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Bambino Gesù Hospital

Conditions:

Crohn Disease

Eligibility:

All Genders

Brief Summary

As a consequence of chronic relapsing inflammation in Crohn's disease (CD), progressive bowel damage and scarring occurs in affected regions of intestine. This damage often leads to narrowing, or stri...

Detailed Description

This prospective, observational study will include both pediatric and adult patients with stricturing CD on stable therapy who are planned to undergo EBD for management of a Crohn's stricture. Includ...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Inclusion criteria:
  • Patients diagnosed with CD as per most recent international guidelines.
  • Presence of strictured bowel (jejunal, ileal, colonic or ileocecal valve), either primary or anastomotic in nature, with prestenotic dilatation \>2.5cm loop diameter as demonstrated on cross-sectional imaging (Magentic Resonance Enteroclysis (MRE), Computerized Tomography Enteroclysis (CTE) or ultrasound (US))
  • Evidence of pre-stenotic inflammation defined as wall thickness ≥5mm on cross-sectional imaging, or pre-stenotic SES-CD ≥3.
  • Planned EBD as per clinical management.
  • Unchanged CD medications - 3 months no change in therapy including immunomodulators (thiopurines or methotrexate), biological therapies, corticosteroid therapy, or nutritional therapy with exclusive enteral nutrition (EEN) or partial enteral nutrition (PEN).
  • No planned treatment changes or additions over the 3 months following recruitment. The treating physician can change treatment at any time should the clinical need arise however the patient will be excluded from primary analysis
  • Exclusion criteria:
  • Any patient deemed not appropriate for EBD by treating physician due to stricture- specific, or patient-specific reasons will not be included
  • Change in therapy (dose or type) in the 3 months prior to planned EBD

Exclusion

    Key Trial Info

    Start Date :

    November 1 2020

    Trial Type :

    OBSERVATIONAL

    Allocation :

    ESTIMATED

    End Date :

    October 1 2028

    Estimated Enrollment :

    24 Patients enrolled

    Trial Details

    Trial ID

    NCT04803916

    Start Date

    November 1 2020

    End Date

    October 1 2028

    Last Update

    May 22 2025

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    Shaare Zedek

    Jerusalem, Israel, 91031