Clinical trial NCT00989560: Post-operative Crohn's Endoscopic Recurrence Study
Official title: Post-Operative Crohn's Disease Endoscopic Recurrence "POCER" Study: Endoscopic Guided Therapeutic Intervention & Determination of Cause
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE3
Conditions: Crohn's Disease
Lead sponsor: University of Melbourne
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2009-10-05
Enrollment: 175
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: This randomised, controlled study aims to evaluate the impact of endoscopic assessment, and adjustment of therapy, after surgery in patients with Crohn's disease. The primary endpoint is the severity of endoscopic recurrence. In addition, tissue will be collected for microbiological and immunological analysis.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* clinical diagnosis of Crohn's and proven history of disease
* patient undergone surgical resection with creation of a primary anastomosis

Exclusion Criteria:

* endoscopically inaccessible anastomosis by standard colonoscopy
* presence of an end stoma
* pregnancy
* suspected perforation of the gastrointestinal tract
* presence of certain unsuitable comorbidities

Primary outcomes:
measure: Endoscopic recurrence of disease
timeFrame: 18 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Melbourne
country: Australia
facility: St Vincent's Hospital
state: Victoria
Study officials:
affiliation: St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne; University of Melbourne
name: Michael A Kamm, MBBS MD FRCP FRACP
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne; University of Melbourne
name: Peter De Cruz, MBBS, FRACP
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Teh JJ, Berendsen EM, Hoedt EC, Kang S, Zhang J, Zhang F, Liu Q, Hamilton AL, Wilson-O'Brien A, Ching J, Sung JJY, Yu J, Ng SC, Kamm MA, Morrison M. Novel strain-level resolution of Crohn's disease mucosa-associated microbiota via an ex vivo combination of microbe culture and metagenomic sequencing. ISME J. 2021 Nov;15(11):3326-3338. doi: 10.1038/s41396-021-00991-1. Epub 2021 May 25.
citation: Wright EK, Kamm MA, Dr Cruz P, Hamilton AL, Ritchie KJ, Bell SJ, Brown SJ, Connell WR, Desmond PV, Liew D. Cost-effectiveness of Crohn's disease post-operative care. World J Gastroenterol. 2016 Apr 14;22(14):3860-8. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v22.i14.3860.
citation: Wright EK, Kamm MA, De Cruz P, Hamilton AL, Ritchie KJ, Krejany EO, Gorelik A, Liew D, Prideaux L, Lawrance IC, Andrews JM, Bampton PA, Sparrow MP, Florin TH, Gibson PR, Debinski H, Gearry RB, Macrae FA, Leong RW, Kronborg I, Radford-Smith G, Selby W, Johnston MJ, Woods R, Elliott PR, Bell SJ, Brown SJ, Connell WR, Desmond PV. Effect of intestinal resection on quality of life in Crohn's disease. J Crohns Colitis. 2015 Jun;9(6):452-62. doi: 10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjv058. Epub 2015 Apr 8.
citation: Wright EK, Kamm MA, De Cruz P, Hamilton AL, Ritchie KJ, Krejany EO, Leach S, Gorelik A, Liew D, Prideaux L, Lawrance IC, Andrews JM, Bampton PA, Jakobovits SL, Florin TH, Gibson PR, Debinski H, Macrae FA, Samuel D, Kronborg I, Radford-Smith G, Selby W, Johnston MJ, Woods R, Elliott PR, Bell SJ, Brown SJ, Connell WR, Day AS, Desmond PV, Gearry RB. Measurement of fecal calprotectin improves monitoring and detection of recurrence of Crohn's disease after surgery. Gastroenterology. 2015 May;148(5):938-947.e1. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2015.01.026. Epub 2015 Jan 22.
citation: De Cruz P, Kamm MA, Hamilton AL, Ritchie KJ, Krejany EO, Gorelik A, Liew D, Prideaux L, Lawrance IC, Andrews JM, Bampton PA, Gibson PR, Sparrow M, Leong RW, Florin TH, Gearry RB, Radford-Smith G, Macrae FA, Debinski H, Selby W, Kronborg I, Johnston MJ, Woods R, Elliott PR, Bell SJ, Brown SJ, Connell WR, Desmond PV. Crohn's disease management after intestinal resection: a randomised trial. Lancet. 2015 Apr 11;385(9976):1406-17. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61908-5. Epub 2014 Dec 24.