Comparing Hand-sewn (END-TO-END or Kono-S) to Stapled Anastomosis in Ileocolic Resection for Crohn's Disease (END2END)
Crohn Disease
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Crohn Disease focused on measuring Crohn's disease, Ileocolic, Endoscopic Recurrence, Ileocolic Anastomosis
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Males and females aged >18 years
- Ileocolic disease or disease of the neoterminal ileum with an indication for resection
- Concurrent therapies with corticosteroids, 5-ASA drugs, thiopurines, MTX, antibiotics, and anti-TNF therapy are permitted.
- All patients should have undergone a colonoscopy and MR enterography (or CT enterography if MR contraindicated) in last 3 months to assess extent of disease.
- Ability to comply with protocol.
- Competent and able to provide written informed consent.
- Patient must have been discussed in the local MDT
Exclusion Criteria:
- Inability to give informed consent.
- Patients less than 18 years of age.
- Clinically significant medical conditions within the six months before the operation : e.g. myocardial infarction, active angina, congestive heart failure or other conditions that would, in the opinion of the investigators, compromise the safety of the patient.
- History of cancer < 5 years which might influence patients prognosis
- Emergent operation.
- Pregnant or breast feeding.
- Inability to follow up at 3, 6 and 12 months for postoperative assessment, imaging and endoscopy.
Sites / Locations
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Active Comparator
Active Comparator
stapled side-to-side anastomosis
Handsewn anastomosis: handsewn end-to-end or Kono-s anastomosis
Standard procedure for CD, ileocolic resection with side-to-side anastomosis is done according to local practice with a linear stapler either aniso- or isoperistaltic as advised by the ECCO guidelines
Kono-S (anti-mesenteric functionel end-to-end handsewn) anastomosis is done according to the description by Kono End-to-end handsewen anastomosis is fashioned either by enlarging the small bowel diameter by an antimesenteric incision to fit the large bowel lumen or by tailored resection of a part of the staple line of the cross stapled colon