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Filter by:Patients with long lasting colonoscopy are characterized by higher risk of incompletion. Endorail is an accessory for colonoscopy aimed at facilitating progression of the endoscope in the large intestine. Endorail works as a magnetic anchor that is able to guide the colonoscope and to straighten colon curves and loops. The aim of this study is to test the safety and efficacy of Endorail in ensuring that incompletion rate in long-lasting colonoscopies is lower than the 10% threshold. Outpatients of either sex aged between 22-75 years undergoing elective diagnostic or surveillance colonoscopy with caecal intubation time greater than 10 minutes will take part in the study. The primary efficacy endpoint is the percentage minor or equal to 10% of incomplete long-lasting colonoscopies. The primary safety endpoints are the absence of device-related serious adverse events and the evaluation of the equality or reduction of the adverse events rates compared to diagnostic colonoscopies without Endorail.
A total of 8000 colonoscopies are performed on a yearly basis on the Funen Island. Between 5% and 10% of those are incomplete due to excessive pain, fixed colon loops, and other reasons. The current standard procedure is to refer the patient to the department of radiology for a CT-colonography. In some instances the radiology department can offer the investigation the next day, and thus in the same colon preparation. At other times they cannot, and the patient has to go through an second colon preparation for the colonography. A CCE procedure could be provided to the participants immediately after the failed colonoscopy and the investigation can be completed the next morning in the same bowel preparation without a visit to the radiology department.