Examination of the Large Intestine With Camera Capsule in Patients With Blood Stream Infection With Gut-associated Bacteria
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Conditions studied: Colorectal Cancer (CRC), Colorectal Cancer and Pre-cancer Polyps, Blood Stream Infection, Anaerobic Infection, Bacteriaemia
In brief
The goal of this observational study is to diagnose colorectal cancer or precancerous tumors in participants over the age of 18 hospitalized with blood stream infection with anaerobic gut-associated bacteria. The main question it aims to answer is: • How prevalent is cancer and precancerous tumors in the large intestines and rectum in patients with anaerobic bacteremia? Participants will be offered an examination using colon capsule endoscopy 4-8 weeks after discharge.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT06919068
- Run by
- Odense University Hospital
- People needed
- 100
- Starts
- 2025-04-23
- Expected to finish
- 2027-12-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2025-11-18
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Older than 18 years
- Blood culture with growth of one or more of the following bacterial genera Bacteroides, Clostridium, Filifactor, Fusobacterium, Gemella, Granulicatella, Parvimonas, Peptostreptococcus, Prevotella, Solobacterium, Peptoniphilus, Ruminococcus, Finegoldia and Streptococcus.
- Able to provide oral and written informed consent
- Able to read and speak Danish
You may not qualify if…
- Prior colorectal cancer diagnosis
- History of stenosis of the gastrointestinal tract
- Previous treatment of inflammatory bowel disease
- Previous major surgery of the gastrointesinal tract (e.g. gastric bypass)
- Colostomy
- Pacemaker/ICD
- Pregnancy or breastfeeding
- Allergies to the bowel preparation regimen
- Severe kidney disease
- Focus of infection in skin and soft tissue or outside the truncus (e.g. decubitus, diabetic foot ulcer)
- Tumor in the colon or rectum at diagnostic imaging
- Transfer to other hospital outside the region
Where it is running
- Odense University Hospital — Odense, Denmark (enrolling)
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