Bowel Dysfunction Clinical Trials

Winthrop University Hospital Clinical Trials Center is seeking volunteers who have been diagnosed with Clostridium difficile infection, which is an infection and is willing to participant in a research study to test the safety and effectiveness of a an investigational medication comparing it with an FDA approved drug. Your participation ...

Summary Purpose and Objective: The purpose of this study is to test the feasibility of rapid acquisition of point of care 3D ultrasound in obtaining abdominal and/or pelvic images. The study will use a newly developed acquisition method and post-processing technique to create three dimensional image models of the abdomen ...

Following a gluten-free diet is difficult. Eating small amounts of gluten may be common. Gluten may cause a wide range of symptoms, or no symptoms at all. Thus, there is not always a 'feedback loop' to alert to accidental gluten exposure. Nevertheless, these "silent" gluten exposures may interfere with recovery ...

If you agree to take part in this study, you will have a CT scan that is done as part of your routine care. This CT scan will be done at the normal radiation dose. During this scan, you will also have a scan of the liver at a lower ...

Detection of main causes for referral to EUS in Tanta, Egypt.

Study design: clinical within-subject randomized controlled trial. Study population: 25 patients with unresectable, chemorefractory, liver-dominant colorectal liver metastases. Intervention: scout and therapeutic doses of holmium-166 microspheres will be administered in the left and right hepatic artery during two sequential angiography procedures on the same day. In all subjects, the use ...

The prevalence of chronic diarrhoea is 5% of the population, a third of these cases have bile acid malabsorption (BAM). SeHCAT (seleno-tauro-homocholic acid) testing is the gold standard for BAM, and involves the ingestion of seleno-tauro-homocholic acid, which is limited to a small number of UK centres. NICE reported that ...

Purpose Primary: to demonstrate better symptoms control (pain, urinary urgency and frequency) with sacral neuromodulation (SNM) in patients with interstitial cystitis /painful bladder syndrome (IC/PBS) using a stimulation frequency of 40 hertz (experimental) compared to a frequency of 14 hertz (standard). Secondary: The evaluate the efficacy of the two frequency ...

The standard treatment of locally advanced but resectable cancer in the middle or lower rectum is preoperative radio-chemotherapy and in the upper part initial surgery. The clinical benefit from radio-chemotherapy is primarily through a reduction in local relapse but the treatment is associated with acute toxicity and long term functional ...

Crohn's Disease (CD) is a life long disease that mainly affects young adults. There is evidence That gut tissue injury is the result of an abnormal immune response that involved multiple non immune cellular systems including the intestinal microvascular endothelial cell. Moreover, clinical studies have shown that 1-7% of irritable ...