Assessing the length of Crohn's resection on disease recurrence
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Crohn's diseaseDigestive SystemCrohn disease, unspecified
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN93472653
- Lead Sponsor
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (UK)
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 190
Inclusion Criteria
1. Participant is willing and able to give informed consent for participation in the study
2. Male or female, aged 16 years or above
3. Patients with ileocolic Crohn?s disease requiring surgical resection
Exclusion Criteria
1. Patients unable to give informed consent
2. Patients requiring formation of a stoma at the time of surgical resection
3. Patients having less than 200 cm of small bowel as assessed intraoperatively
4. Simultaneous strictureplasty or small bowel resection
5. Aged <16 or >80 years
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Endoscopic evidence of disease recurrence at the surgical anastomosis, assessed at 6 months postoperatively
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <br> 1. Duration of medication-free interval following resection<br> 2. Duration of symptom-free interval following resection<br> 3. Time to reoperation for anastomotic disease recurrence<br> 4. Extent of plexitis in resected small bowel<br><br> Assessed from note review 5 years postoperatively<br>