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Electro-Entero-Graphy (EEnG) for non-invasive diagnosis of motility disorders of the bowel

Completed
Conditions
constipation
obstruction
10017977
Registration Number
NL-OMON51036
Lead Sponsor
Radboud Universitair Medisch Centrum
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Completed
Sex
Not specified
Target Recruitment
80
Inclusion Criteria

All subjects: babies/children < 12 years and adults > 18 years.

For patients < 12 years:
o suffering from surgically untreated HSCR as determined by a rectal biopsy, or
o suspected of HSCR, for which a rectal biopsy is planned
o suffering from a surgically untreated colonic motility disorder as
previously diagnosed.

For adult patients:
o Suffering from a (suspected,) surgically untreated functional colonic
motility disorder (such as slow-transit constipation, idiopathic/therapy
resistant constipation), as diagnosed previously or will be diagnosed in the
near future using the gold standard method.

Exclusion Criteria

All subjects:
- For adults: BMI > 27 kg/m2
- For babies/children: weight for length > 2.5 standard deviation of WHO Child
Growth Standard
- Pregnancy
- Diabetes
- Any food intolerance
- Intestinal stoma
- Continuous tube feeding

Healthy controls:
- Any known gastro-intestinal disorders
- Use of laxatives in the past two years

Patients:
- (partially) resected small intestines and/or colon
- inflammatory bowel diseases

Study & Design

Study Type
Observational non invasive
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
<p>The primary study parameter is the relative power increase (pre-prandial vs.<br /><br>post-prandial) of the EEnG signal (in mV/Hz^2) in the relevance frequency<br /><br>region for colonic motility. This power increase can then be compared between<br /><br>healthy subjects and patients to investigate whether colonic motility can be<br /><br>measured using EEnG and also whether EEnG could be used as diagnostic tool for<br /><br>colonic motility disorders.</p><br>
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
<p>The questionnaires are summarized in a grand total score, which can be used to<br /><br>compare the burden of the EEnG procedure with the Gold Standard procedures.</p><br>
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