Active clinical trials for "Crohn Disease"

The proposed study is a post marketing, observational, retrospective data collection intended to gather and record data on patients treated with the ColonRing™ device in routine clinical practice at a single center. The data will assist in further evaluating the performance of the ColonRing™ device in regards to the creation of a colorectal anastomosis. Hypothesis:The performance of the ColonRing™, determined by the rate of complications, will be within the acceptable range reported in the literature for alternative treatment modalities.

The purpose of this study is to produce a user-friendly tool- in the form of a questionnaire - to accurately assess early quality of life in patients after abdominal colorectal surgery from the first day after surgery to 6 months after. The study will also compare this questionnaire to the other currently available assessment tools. Patients are invited to participate if they are undergoing abdominal colorectal surgery at University Hospitals of Cleveland.

The purpose of this study is to assess the exam quality and accuracy of MR using a new oral contrast agent for the evaluation of Crohn Disease in the small bowel.

Crohn's disease(CD),a type of inflammatory bowel disease(IBD), is a chronic intestinal recurrent inflammatory disease involving the entire digestive tract. And Ustekinumab, a monoclonal antibody against the p40 subunit of interleukin-12 and interleukin-23, is a newly targeted drug approved for the treatment of Crohn's disease in recent years.Based on the high-throughput imaging characteristic analysis technique, this study quantitatively analyzed the transmural inflammation of Crohn's disease, and discussed its prognostic value in the treatment of Ustekinumab, and further analyzed the increment of its relative clinical index.

Blood clots occurring in the legs and in the lungs are relatively common; they occur in around 3 in a 1000 people per year. They can cause disability and are also potentially life threatening. When a clot occurs in the legs it is called a deep vein thrombosis or DVT. When they occur in the lungs they are called a pulmonary embolism or PE. The risk for DVT and PE is higher in people with conditions which cause inflammation. The most common of these are inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease), rheumatoid arthritis, and psoriatic arthritis (a condition comprised of psoriasis and joint inflammation). What is not known is how much higher the risk of DVT and PE is in these groups compared with people without inflammatory disease, and what causes the excess risk in these people. This study aims to assess the measure the exact increase in risk for DVT and PE in people with these inflammatory conditions and to identify which risk factors are most strongly associated with the increased risk. These data should help with an understand the causes of blood clot risk in these inflammatory conditions and in identify targets for reducing risk.

The descriptive purpose of this study is to characterize clinical and nonclinical factors of participants with CD, participant flow and visits to other specialists in the hospitals of the healthcare network of the Autonomous Community of Madrid with implementation of electronic medical records. The clinical and nonclinical factors include: demographic and baseline clinical characteristics, lifestyle, relapses, complications, day hospital visits, surgery, presence of complications such as perianal fistulas and complex perianal fistulas. The predictive purpose of this study is to develop a statistical predictive model with the information obtained from the descriptive purpose, in the hospitals of the healthcare network of the Autonomous Community of Madrid, capable of assigning any participant diagnosed with CD a probability of reaching a prototypical clinical condition or a probability of experiencing certain clinical complications.

The purpose of the study is to develop a validated French version of the IBDQ in a cohort of patients suffering from Inflammatory bowel diseases, namely Crohn's disease and Ulcerative Colitis.

The purpose of this study is to determine how relevant dynamic ultrasound scans using contrast agents (SonoVue) is in the diagnosis of Crohns disease in the small bowel, compared to dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of the small bowel.

The primary aims for this research are to 1) characterize brain changes in patients with CD compared to age and gender-matched controls and 2) relate these brain changes to measures of disease activity and pain severity.

Background: Small bowel Crohn's disease (SBCD) is a chronic relapsing disease, and clinical presentation can vary considerably. Patients are frequently assessed by capsule endoscopy (CE), which enables direct visualization of small bowel mucosal abnormalities; however, the correlations between CE scoring index (CESI), biological markers, and disease activity indices remain undefined. Methods: A prospective study was conducted between October 2008 and February 2011 on 58 established SBCD patients and suspected patients who received a definitive SBCD diagnosis during study. Patients underwent complete CE, and were scored according to the CESI (inactive, <135; mild inflammation, 135-790; moderate-severe inflammation, >790) and Harvey-Bradshaw index (HBI). Statistical correlation between CESI, HBI, C-reactive protein (CRP), serum albumin, and hemoglobin was assessed. At follow-up (~9 months), 11 of the patients underwent CE with scoring for CESI, HBI, and CRP.