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A Study of the Patency Capsule and Radiologic Tests in Diagnostic Management of Patients with Suspected or Known Intestinal Strictures
Scottsdale/Phoenix, AZ
The purpose of our research study is to identify the usefulness and safety of patency capsule (PC) and compare with radiology tests such as CT enterography or MR enterography in patients with intestinal obstruction.
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Small Bowel Obstruction Anatomic Severity Score
No Locations
The purpose of this study is to determine the concordance of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma – Small Bowel Obstruction (AAST-SBO) scoring system with mortality and to determine if adding a comorbidity and physiologic scoring system improves the concordance.
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Symptom Assessment of Patients following Percutaneous Transesophageal Gastrostomy Tube Placement
Scottsdale/Phoenix, AZ
The purpose of this study is to measure the symptom response in patients with malignant bowel obstruction who have placement of a percutaneous transesophageal gastrostomy tube.
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Acupuncture For The Treatment of Autonomic Dysfunction
Jacksonville, FL
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the benefits of acupuncture in patients who have refractory autonomic dysfunction, including nausea, emesis, ileus, diabetic gastroparesis, failure to thrive.
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Noninvasive Diagnosis of Patients With Bowel Diseases with Computer Aided Auscultation of Phonoenterogram
Rochester, MN
The purpose of this study is to collect and annotate PEG (Phonoenterogram) data from healthy volunteers, patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD),post-surgical patients with an increased risk of developing paralytic postoperative ileus (POI), and patients with evidence of partial bowel obstruction for facilitating the technical development of the PEG-CAAe using Artificial Intelligence.