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NCT Number: NCT06309017

Pre-operative Nutrition for Elective Resection Surgery in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

This study aims to determine if improved risk stratification tools and interventions to mitigate malnutrition reduce postoperative risk in patients undergoing elective or emergent resection surgery for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and if adding immune modulation nutrition improves surgical outcomes. The primary objective is to assess whether preoperative malnutrition screening and intervention minimize postoperative complications. The secondary objective is to evaluate whether immune modulation nutrition in the peri-operative period decreases length of stay and major complications.

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Key information

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

NYU Langone Health

New York, 10016, United States

Location status: Recruiting

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Able and willing to provide written informed consent
  • Aged 18 years of age or older
  • Confirmed diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease
  • Scheduled for disease-related intestinal resection at NYU Langone Health

Exclusion criteria

  • No current diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease
  • Age less than 18
  • Not proficient (able to read and answer questions) in English

Treatment and study plan

Nutrition specialist

Other

Nutrition specialist to help improve nutritional status by diet, oral nutrition supplements or parenteral nutrition.

Ensure Surgery Immunonutrition shakes

Dietary Supplement

All study subjects, including subjects without malnutrition, will be given the Ensure Surgery Immunonutrition Shakes for prior to surgery as per standard of care. All subjects will also receive additional shakes starting as an inpatient when diet is advanced.

Primary outcomes

  1. Length of hospital stay

    Time frame: Up to 30 days post-surgery

    From the time the patient is admitted at hospital for surgery until the patient is discharged.

  2. Proportion of patients who experienced postoperative major complications

    Time frame: Visit 3 (30 days post-surgery)

    Major complications include infection, bleeding (requiring blood transfusion or requiring intervention), cardiac event (myocardial infarction, arrhythmia, and cardiac arrest), stroke, acute kidney injury (increase in serum creatinine of ≥0.3 mg/dL from baseline or ≥1.5 times baseline), venous thromboembolism, reoperation, readmission, and need for ICU-level care. The outcome measure will be obtained from the electronic health record (EHR).

Secondary outcomes

  1. Proportion of patients who participated in a nutritional intervention program before surgery

    Time frame: Visit 3 (30 days post-surgery)

  2. Proportion of patients who participated in a nutritional intervention program after surgery

    Time frame: Visit 3 (30 days post-surgery)

  3. Number of nutritional shakes completed

    Time frame: Visit 3 (30 days post-surgery)

  4. Percentage of nutritional shakes completed overall

    Time frame: Visit 3 (30 days post-surgery)

  5. Percentage of nutritional shakes completed pre-surgery

    Time frame: One day prior to surgery

    Subject will be called the day prior to surgery to determine the number of shakes consumed by patient.

  6. Percentage of nutritional shakes completed post-surgery

    Time frame: One week post surgery

    One week after surgery, a phone call will follow to determine how many shakes subject consumed.

  7. Proportion of patients who experienced any postoperative complications

    Time frame: Visit 3 (30 days post-surgery)

  8. Proportion of patients with 30 day readmission

    Time frame: Up to 30 days post-surgery

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Jennifer Katz, MD

CONTACT

[email protected]

(855) 698-4232

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

NYU Langone Health

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2025
Primary completion
2027
Study completion
2027
First posted
Mar 13, 2024
Registry last updated
Mar 5, 2026

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