Endorail in Long Lasting Colonoscopy

Multicenter Clinical Trial for the Evaluation of Safety and Effectiveness of Endorail in Patients With Long-lasting Colonoscopy

Patients with long lasting colonoscopy are characterized by higher risk of incompletion. Endorail is an accessory for colonoscopy aimed at facilitating progression of the endoscope in the large intestine. Endorail works as a magnetic anchor that is able to guide the colonoscope and to straighten colon curves and loops. The aim of this study is to test the safety and efficacy of Endorail in ensuring that incompletion rate in long-lasting colonoscopies is lower than the 10% threshold. Outpatients of either sex aged between 22-75 years undergoing elective diagnostic or surveillance colonoscopy with caecal intubation time greater than 10 minutes will take part in the study. The primary efficacy endpoint is the percentage minor or equal to 10% of incomplete long-lasting colonoscopies. The primary safety endpoints are the absence of device-related serious adverse events and the evaluation of the equality or reduction of the adverse events rates compared to diagnostic colonoscopies without Endorail.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Colonoscopy; Incomplete Colonoscopy
• Intervention / Treatment: Device: ENDORAIL

Detailed Description

Patients with long lasting colonoscopy are characterized by higher risk of incompletion. A colonoscopy can be defined as incomplete when the endoscopist cannot reach the caecum. Caecal intubation is one of the main goals of colonoscopy and represents a diagnostic quality indicator. International guidelines recommend caecal intubation rates ≥90% for all colonoscopies in daily clinical practice. Reported incomplete colonoscopy rates range from 4% to 25%. Caecal intubation fails in 4-10% of cases in tertiary referred centres, instead in national surveys colonoscopies are incomplete in 10-25% of cases.

Endorail is a medical device intended to facilitate the positioning of a standard colonoscope. Endorail is a colonoscopy add-on device that works as a magnetic anchor able to guide the colonoscope and to straighten colon curves and loops.

Endorail is composed by the following two CE marked medical devices: Endorail Set and Endorail System. Endorail Set consists of the Endorail Balloon Guide, The Endorail Solution Syringe, The Endorail Powder and the Spike. Endorail System consists of the Endorail Handpiece and the Endorail Cart.

The aim of this study is to test the safety and efficacy of the Endorail in ensuring that incompletion rate in long-lasting colonoscopies is lower than the 10% threshold.

Outpatients of either sex aged between 22-75 years, undergoing elective colonoscopy for diagnostic or surveillance colonoscopy, who have signed a written informed consent and presenting caecal intubation time greater than 10 minutes, will take part in the study. The study plan will include a screening/baseline/treatment visit (Visit 1/Day 1), during which colonoscopy with the investigational medical device Endorail will be performed and a phone follow-up visit (Visit 2), scheduled at 7 (± 1) day after treatment with the investigational medical device Endorail.

The primary efficacy endpoint is the percentage minor or equal to 10% of incomplete long-lasting colonoscopies

The primary safety endpoints are:

• The absence of device-related serious adverse events. AND
• The evaluation of the equality or reduction of the adverse events rates compared to diagnostic colonoscopies without Endorail.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 38
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Belgium
  • Leuven, Belgium, B-3000
    • University Hospitals
• Germany
  • Lippe, Germany, 32105
    • Gastrozentrum
• Italy
  • Milano, Italy, 20089
    • Humanitas

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 22 years to 75 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Patients of both sexes aged between 22 - 75 years (inclusive);
2. Outpatients undergoing long-lasting diagnostic and surveillance colonoscopy; long-lasting colonoscopy is defined as follows: colonoscopy completion (caecal intubation) not achieved after 10 minutes from endoscope insertion through the anal canal;
3. Patients have given a written informed consent for participation in the study at the time of enrolment or before;
4. Patients able to understand the full nature and the purpose of the investigation, including possible risks and side effects, able to cooperate with the Investigator and to comply with the requirements of the entire investigation based on Investigator's judgement.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Body mass index (BMI) > 30 kg/m2;
2. Outpatients undergoing colonoscopy for colorectal cancer screening or therapeutic indication;
3. Patients in class >2 physical status of the classification system of American Society of Anaesthesiologists;
4. Any contraindications to colonoscopy;
5. Any contraindications to sedation;
6. Known allergy or hypersensitivity to any of the elements of the Endorail Set (e.g.: iron);
7. Patients with permanently or semi-permanently implanted medical devices, (e.g. orthopedic implants, trauma fixation devices, cardiac pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillator, drug pumps, neurostimulators, vascular stents, cochlear implants, aneurysm clip);
8. Presence of dense diverticulosis
9. Presence of diverticulitis
10. Presence of ferromagnetic foreign body;
11. Presence of large abdominal hernias;
12. Presence of severe thrombocytopenia;
13. Presence of severe granulocytopenia;
14. Presence of severe coagulopathy;
15. Presence of peritonitis;
16. Presence of colonic wall ischemia or necrosis or injured mucosa;
17. Presence of peritoneal carcinomatosis;
18. Boston Bowel Preparation Scale <2 in at least one of the colonic segments;
19. Presence of obstructing masses and strictures of the colon;
20. History of total or subtotal colectomy.
21. Presence of angulated and fixed colon curves;
22. Pregnant or breast-feeding women;
23. Patient unable to provide the signed informed consent, uncooperative patient or patient unlikely to comply with the protocol or unable to understand the nature, scope and possible consequences of the study;
24. Presence of any other reason that, in the opinion of the investigator, prevents the subject from participating in the study or compromises the subject safety
25. Concomitant participation in other clinical investigations or participation in the evaluation of any investigational product/device in the 30 days before this study or previous participation in the same investigation;
26. Urgent colonoscopy.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Intervention / Treatment

Experimental: Colonoscopy with Endorail; In case of long-lasting colonoscopy, the Endorail Balloon Guide can be inserted inside the endoscope tool channel. It is connected at its proximal (user) end to the syringe containing the Ferromagnetic Fluid. The anchored balloon guide allows to straighten the scope and thus the colon itself. As it is kept in tension, its rigidity increases and works as a rail supporting the movements of the colonoscope. The guided colonoscope can thus be easily moved back and forward to allow better colonoscope positioning and colonoscopy completion. After the Endorail is removed, the straightened colonoscope can be easily pushed forward to achieve colonoscopy completion as foreseen in standard endoscopic technique.

Device: ENDORAIL; In case caecal intubation time is longer than 10 minutes, the balloon catheter is inserted in the tool channel, advanced beyond the colonoscope tip and filled with Ferromagnetic Fluid. By applying the Endorail Handpiece over the patient abdomen, the balloon can be magnetically anchored. The anchored balloon guide allows to straighten the scope and the colon itself. The colonoscope can thus be easily moved back and forward along the anchored guide to facilitate colonoscope positioning and colonoscopy completion. Afterward, Endorail is removed and the straightened colonoscope can be easily pushed forward to achieve colonoscopy completion according to standard endoscopic technique.; Other Names: Endorail Set - Endorail System

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Evaluation of Endorail efficacy	The percentage minor or equal to 10% of incomplete long-lasting colonoscopies (colonoscopy is defined completed when caecal intubation is achieved)	day 1
Evaluation of Endorail safety	The absence of device-related serious adverse events will be collected during the treatment	day 1
Evaluation of Endorail safety	The absence of device-related serious adverse events will be collected through phone call after 7 days of procedure	day 7

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Endostart srl
• Investigators: Study Director: Alessandro F Ferri, Advice Pharma Group S.r.l.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 25, 2023
• Primary Completion (Actual): May 24, 2023
• Study Completion (Actual): July 24, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: November 8, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 15, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): November 25, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): July 25, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 24, 2023
• Last Verified: July 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Safety; Colonoscopy; Effectiveness; Gastrointestinal endoscopy; Medical Device; Magnetic Balloon Technology; Looping
• Other Study ID Numbers: Endorail

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No