Pilot Study of Preoperative Intestinal Training Using Antegrade Ileostomy Infusion

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phasePhase 1, Phase 2
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18-80
SponsorUniversity of California, San Diego

About this trial

This research study is being conducted to study the effect of infusing your contents from your ostomy bag back into your intestine to re-train them prior to the ostomy takedown operation, which is a surgery to reverse your ostomy to put your intestine back together. Because your intestine past the ostomy hasn't seen any intestinal content for several weeks to months before the takedown operation, it is no longer used to handling the daily work of processing intestinal content and will take time to recover its normal function after surgery. We hope to speed up this process by training them before your planned surgery.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Has a diverting loop ileostomy

undergoing evaluation for stoma takedown

Disqualifiers

unable to perform consent

unable to perform stoma infusion

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • antegrade infusion of ileostomy content

Treatment groups

20 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups