The purpose of this study is to determine the best role for capsule endoscopy in diagnosing Crohn's disease.
Wireless capsule endoscopy (CE) is a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved technology that allows viewing of the entire small-bowel. Capsule endoscopy involves swallowing a pill-sized camera that sends images to a data recorder worn on a vest. Because Crohn's disease (CD) often involves the small bowel, we would like to find out if capsule endoscopy is useful in diagnosing small-bowel Crohn's disease. Current methods for diagnosing small-bowel Crohn's disease include colonoscopy, esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD), enteroscopy (ENT), single contrast barium small-bowel follow through (SBFT), and double contrast small-bowel enteroclysis (SBE), but these tests are unable to identify the presence or extent of small-bowel disease in many patients.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, New York, United States
Compare capsule endoscopy (CE) finding with traditional findings (colonoscopy and small-bowel follow through [SBFT]) in patients with known Crohn's disease
Evaluate the extent and severity of CE determined small-bowel involvement in patients with known Crohn's disease
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