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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT00593021
Date of registration: 28/12/2007
Primary sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital
Public title: Diagnostic Evaluation of Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Scientific title: Diagnostic Evaluation of Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Date of first enrolment: October 2007
Target sample size: 100
Recruitment status: Recruiting
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00593021
Study type:  Observational
Study design:  Observational Model: Case-Only, Time Perspective: Prospective  
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:   Jaya R Agrawal, MD, MPH
Address: 
Telephone: 617-525-8763
Email: jagrawal@partners.org
Affiliation: 
Name:   Jaya R Agrawal, MD, MPH
Address: 
Telephone: 617-525-8763
Email: jagrawal@partners.org
Affiliation: 
Name:   John R Saltzman, MD
Address: 
Telephone:
Email:
Affiliation:  Brigham and Women's Hospital
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Anemia, hematochezia, melena, Hematemesis, heme positive stool with negative
EGD+/-colonoscopy

Exclusion Criteria:

- Under the age of 18

- Unable to give consent

- IV Contrast Allergy (excluded from CT)

- Renal insufficiency (excluded from CT)

- Unable to swallow (excluded from capsule)

- Small bowel obstruction or stricturing disease (excluded from capsule)



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Intervention(s)
Primary Outcome(s)
Diagnostic yield of capsule endoscopy and CT Enterography in patients with obscure GI bleeding [Time Frame: Continuous]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Hospital course, clinical improvement [Time Frame: 120 days from enrollment]
Secondary ID(s)
SALTZMAN: 2007P-000991
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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