Emerging space for non-polyethene-glycol bowel preparations in inflammatory bowel disease-related colonoscopy: Veering toward better adherence and palatability
Raffaele Pellegrino, Antonietta Gerarda Gravina · 2023
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Description
Raffaele Pellegrino and Antonietta Gravina review bowel cleansing options before colonoscopy for people with inflammatory bowel disease. These patients need repeated colonoscopies to judge disease activity, check healing after surgery, and watch for cancer, and each exam needs a clean bowel to be useful. Standard guidance favors large-volume drinks based on polyethylene glycol because most safety data in this group come from those products. Many patients, though, find them hard to finish because of taste and volume. Writing in twenty twenty-three, the authors survey newer studies of low-volume alternatives.
The alternatives, built on other salts and stimulants, look encouraging on tolerance and patient preference in the studies reviewed. Safety signals also appear reassuring, at least for patients whose disease is quiet or well controlled. The authors stop short of a blanket switch and argue the new evidence may justify a gradual change in guidance for selected patients.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Raffaele Pellegrino, Antonietta Gerarda Gravina |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 16 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |