Bowel Sounds Analysis in Paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Relationship With wPCDAI

The precise and noninvasive evaluation of disease activity among patients with Crohn's disease is not easy, especially for children. It deals with clinical, biological, histological and radiological parameters.

Bowel sounds (BS) when evaluated by a stethoscope are modified by several factors including surgery, infection, drugs or intestinal inflammation. These factors can interact on intestinal motricity. There is a direct relationship between gastrointestinal motility and characteristics of BW. The study of BS using a stethoscope is a simple method, although operator dependent and subjective,with a wide inter and intraindividual variability. Some studies among adults showed interest in the spectral analysis of BS to assess gastrointestinal motility. This more precise and reproducible method is not operator dependent.

To date, no such study has evaluated the correlation between disease activity and the spectral pattern of BS.

of this project is to assess the correlation between disease activity and the spectral pattern of BS in pediatric Crohn's disease.

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Key information

Conditions

Bowel Sounds Crohn Disease Digestive System Diseases Gastroenteritis Gastrointestinal Diseases Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Intestinal Diseases Intestinal Inflammation

Age range

4 year–17 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

CHU Amiens

Amiens, 80054, France

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

Crohn's Disease
Age between 4 and 17 years
Follow-up at CHU Amiens-Picardie

Exclusion criteria

Other diseases than Crohn's or treatments affecting the gastrointestinal tract, recent (< 3 months) surgery or refusal to participate (parents or children)

Treatment and study plan

Abdominal auscultation

Other

spectral analysis of Bowel sounds

Primary outcomes

evaluation of frequency of bowel sounds

Time frame: one day
evaluation of wPCDAI

Time frame: one day

wPCDAI is WEIGHTED PAEDIATRIC CROHN'S DISEASE ACTIVITY INDEX
correlation between wPCDAI and frequency of bowel sounds

Time frame: one day

wPCDAI is WEIGHTED PAEDIATRIC CROHN'S DISEASE ACTIVITY INDEX

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Amiens

Other

Registry information

Acronym: SONO-MICI

Important dates

Study start: 2021
Primary completion: 2022
Study completion: 2022
First posted: Jul 21, 2023
Registry last updated: Jun 11, 2026

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