The Endoscopic Assesment of Intestinal Grafts
Purpose
The study validates prospectively a new endoscopic scoring system (Gothenburg Intestinal Transplant Endoscopy Score, GITES) designed to summarize and stratify the abnormal ileal endoscopic findings after intestinal transplantation. GITES is a five-tier, four grade score which asseses mucosal friability, mucosal erythema and mucosal injury (ulcerations) as well as villous changes according to severity. These features (i.e., endoscopic descriptors) are also grouped from mild to very severe in the same sequence as observed during the progression of several pathologic conditions encountered after intestinal transplantation (acute rejection, infectious enteritis).
Conditions
- Transplant; Intestine
- Transplant; Complication, Rejection
- Transplant; Failure, Bowel
- Enteritis
- Mucosal Inflammation
Eligibility
- Eligible Ages
- All ages
- Eligible Genders
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- transplantation of a segment of small intestine (as isolated graft or together with other organs)
Exclusion Criteria
- contraindications for ileoscopy
Study Design
- Phase
- Study Type
- Observational
- Observational Model
- Cohort
- Time Perspective
- Prospective
Recruiting Locations
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Washington, District of Columbia 20007
Washington, District of Columbia 20007
Contact:
Stuart Kaufman, MD
Stuart Kaufman, MD
More Details
- Status
- Unknown status
- Sponsor
- Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden