This is an interventional randomized ope-label two-arm trial on the peri-operative use of immunonutrition in Crohn's Disease (CD) patients undergoing colorectal elective surgery.The aim of the trial is to assess the effectiveness of immunonutrition therapy in decreasing the rate of post-operative infective complications and 6 months endoscopic disease recurrence.
Crohn's Disease (CD) patients undergoing abdominal surgery are at high risk to develop post-operative surgical and medical infective complications. Infective complications affect almost 24% of patients. Post-surgical disease recurrence afflicts 35-85% of CD patients in the first year after surgery. Immunonutrition has been successfully applied to surgical patients in several randomized trials, demonstrating a decreased rate of post-operative infective complications. The aim of the study is to compare the incidence of surgical and medical post-operative infective complications and six months endoscopic and clinical disease recurrence (DR) in CD patients receiving immunonutrition in the peri-operative setting compared to patients treated as for standard of care.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
350
Standard of Care is represented by the best standard peri-operative treatment already planned for the study population: as for ERAS guidelines, it is represented by fast restoration of liquid and solid diet after surgery (approximately 24 hours after surgery) and pre-operative and post-operative dietary counselling whenever indicated by the surgeon or gastroenterologist
Impact. Patients will be asked to consume 3 cartons/day of Nestle IMPACT for pre-operative 7 days and 1 carton/day of Nestle IMPACT for post-operative 30 days
Post-operative infective complications rate
Post-operative infective complications rate (including intra-abdominal septic complications, surgical site infections and medical inflections) will be evaluated with clinical, radiological and molecular analysis
Time frame: 30 days post-operatively
6 months endoscopic recurrence
Endoscopic recurrence will be evaluated through colonoscopy with or without biopsies and Rutgeert score. Rutgeert score is an endoscopic risk score intended to predict disease recurrence: it is calculated depending on the number and type of intestinal lesions and consists of five level of disease recurrence risk, from 0 (endoscopic remission) to 4 (advanced disease recurrence).
Time frame: 6 months post-operatively
6 months nutritional status
Nutritional status will be evaluated through the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST). MUST consists of three different levels, generating a risk predictor ranging from 0 (low risk) to 2 (high risk), considering the calculated Body Mass Index (BMI), the unintentional weight loss and the pathological conditions of the patient.
Time frame: 6 months post-operatively
30 days quality of life
Quality of Life will be evaluated trhough the Short-Inflammatory Bowel Disease Quality of Life questionnaire (S-IBDQoL), which is 10-item questionnaire. All items are reported in a 7 point scale, from "all of the time" to "none of the time" (1 = poor health; 7 = good health).
Time frame: 30 days post-operatively
90 days quality of life
Quality of Life will be evaluated trhough the Short-Inflammatory Bowel Disease Quality of Life questionnaire (S-IBDQoL), which is 10-item questionnaire. All items are reported in a 7 point scale, from "all of the time" to "none of the time" (1 = poor health; 7 = good health).
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Time frame: 90 days post-operatively
6 months quality of life
Quality of Life will be evaluated trhough the Short-Inflammatory Bowel Disease Quality of Life questionnaire (S-IBDQoL), which is 10-item questionnaire. All items are reported in a 7 point scale, from "all of the time" to "none of the time" (1 = poor health; 7 = good health).
Time frame: 6 months post-operatively