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Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT03581149
Date of registration: 27/03/2018
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: American University of Beirut Medical Center
Public title: Tolerability and Efficacy of Sodium Picosulfate/Magnesium Citrate Versus PEG/Ascorbic Acid in Ulcerative Colitis Patients
Scientific title: Tolerability and Efficacy of Low-Volume Sodium Picosulfate/Magnesium Citrate Versus 2L Polyethylene Glycol/Ascorbic Acid in Patients With Ulcerative Colitis Undergoing Colonoscopy: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Date of first enrolment: March 26, 2018
Target sample size: 68
Recruitment status: Recruiting
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT03581149
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Diagnostic. Masking: Single (Investigator).  
Phase:  Phase 4
Countries of recruitment
Lebanon
Contacts
Name:     Louma Rustam, MD
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Affiliation: 
Name:     Ala Sharara, M.D
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Telephone: 00961893989
Email: as08@aub.edu.lb
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Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Patients diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis

- Patients undergoing elective outpatient colonoscopy

- Patients consenting to the study

Exclusion Criteria:

- Age less than 18 years

- Pregnant or lactating women

- Significant gastroparesis

- Gastric outlet obstruction

- Ileus

- Known or suspected bowel obstruction or perforation

- Phenylketonuria

- Toxic colitis or megacolon

- Having a stoma

- Compromised swallowing reflex or mental status

- Psychiatric disease or known or suspected poor compliance

- Severe chronic renal failure (creatinine clearance <30 mL/minute)

- Severe congestive heart failure (New York Heart Association [NYHA] class III or IV)

- Dehydration

- Laxative use or dependency

- Chronic constipation (<3 spontaneous bm/week)

- Uncontrolled hypertension (systolic blood pressure =170 mm Hg, diastolic blood
pressure =100 mm Hg)

- Prior colon resection

- Age above 65 years

- Profusely bleeding patients with severe UC



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 65 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Ulcerative Colitis
Intervention(s)
Drug: Sodium Picosulfate/Magnesium Citrate Laxative
Drug: 2L polyethylene glycol/ascorbic acid
Primary Outcome(s)
Tolerability of the preparation as assessed by a Likert-type scale [Time Frame: 1 year]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Assessment of adherence to protocol [Time Frame: 1 year]
Quality of the preparation as assessed by the Boston Bowel Preparation Scale. [Time Frame: 1 year]
Quality of the preparation as assessed by the Modified Aronchick scale. [Time Frame: 1 year]
Secondary ID(s)
BIO-2017-0434
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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