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Keep this study
Lead
Bühlmann Laboratories AG
With
ICON Clinical Research
Age
22–any
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
You may be eligible if
1. Adults or pediatric patients evaluated by a gastroenterological service for investigation of possible inflammatory intestinal disease or IBS. Patients are referred for sub-specialty evaluation of symptoms such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, altered appetite, weight loss, or anemia.
* IBD: Eligible subjects will be analyzed as patients with IBD after a confirmed diagnosis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (CD, UC, or Indeterminate Colitis), based on endoscopy and confirmed by histology of biopsies taken during endoscopy.
* IBS: Eligible candidate subjects can also include patients who are self-referred with the relevant constellation of complaints. Eligible subjects will be enrolled after having a diagnosis of IBS based on the Rome III criteria confirmed by negative endoscopy including the colon and terminal ileum.
* other GI Disorders: Eligible subjects will be enrolled after having a diagnosis of a gastrointestinal disorder other than IBD or IBS, confirmed by endoscopy results and other appropriate diagnostic studies.
* Healthy Controls: Adults (≥22) with no abdominal complaints and no history of IBS, IBD or other chronic intestinal disorder, confirmed by medical history and physical examination at enrolment.
2. Individuals of either gender, ≥22 years of age (adult samples) or 2 to -21 years of age (pediatric samples).
3. IBD patients whose diagnostic endoscopy occurred within the previous month.
4. Individuals able to understand the study and the tasks required, and who sign the Informed Consent Form (adult subjects; ICF) or whose parent/guardian provides consent (ICF) and, if age 7-to-18 years of age, who provide assent (pediatric subjects).
You may not be if
1. Individuals unable or unwilling to provide a stool specimen.
2. Individuals with known intestinal cancer, intestinal infection, upper gastrointestinal disease
3. Individuals receiving chemotherapy or systemic immunosuppressive drugs.
4. Individuals who have taken, within the previous 2 weeks, protein pump inhibitors or H2-receptor antagonists.
5. Individuals with previously diagnosed Inflammatory Bowel Disease managed with immunomodulators, 5-ASA (5-aminosalicylic acid) or biologic therapies or who have undergone a surgical resection or diversion procedure.
6. Individuals who have taken NSAIDs (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs), including aspirin, on 7 or more days during the 2 weeks before providing the sample.
