Value of Speckle Tracking Echocardiography Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients

NCT ID: NCT06695065

Last Updated: 2025-10-02

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Total Enrollment: 100 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-10-01
• Study Completion Date: 2027-12-01

Brief Summary

Value of speckle tracking echocardiography in early assessment of cardiac function in inflammatory bowel disease .

Detailed Description

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a common form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that consists of chronic inflammatory disorders of the colon and the small intestine with unknown etiology. Chronic inflammation is the basis of complicated pathogenesis, and the course of the disease is often complicated by an immune response. Malnutrition, malabsorption and the involvement of organs other than those of the gastrointestinal tract are frequent consequences of the disease . Although extra-intestinal manifestations of IBD are common (ranging from 6% to 47%), cardiac involvement is rare.

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). IBD patients have a two- to threefold increased risk of venous thromboembolism, particularly during acute flares when disrupted homeostasis of anti- and procoagulants leads to a hypofibrinolytic state. Cardiovascular manifestations in Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) include conditions such as Takayasu's arteritis, pericarditis, and myocarditis. Chronic inflammation and altered lipid metabolism, along with long-term use of anti-inflammatory drugs (e.g., corticosteroids, TNF-α inhibitors), are thought to drive CV pathology in IBD. Additionally, chronic inflammation is linked to pathological collagen deposition in affected organs.

Although conventional echocardiography is a widely accessible and easy tool to detect cardiac abnormalities, novel echocardiographic techniques and indices offer easy, reproducible and quantitative information for evaluating left ventricle function and subclinical changes . Speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) is an advanced echocardiographic methodology for the quantification of myocardial function. STE has been successfully used to identify early subclinical cardiac involvement in a variety of asymptomatic populations with chronic diseases and unremarkable conventional echocardiography. Unlike earlier echocardiography techniques, two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (2DSTE) is less angle-dependent. In addition, STE is not affected by the rotation of the heart and allows heart functions to be examined segment by segment from various echocardiographic views . Despite, studies have examined subclinical cardiac impairment in patients with IBD, to the best of our knowledge, none have explored the impact of ulcerative colitis activity on cardiac function through using STE.

Conditions

Echocardiography; Inflammatory Bowel Diseases; Cardiac Function

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: CASE_CONTROL
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

Study group adult with ulcerative colitis

50 Adult patients with ulcerative colitis

No interventions assigned to this group

control group

50 age and sex matched control group.

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Age (18-60) yrs.
• Both sexes.
• Patients with IBD either in active form or in remission.

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients with ischemic heart disease. -Patients with other comorbidities affecting heart as uncontrolled hypertension or diabetes. -
• Pregnant females.
• Malignancy

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 60 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Assiut University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Asmaa AbdelShafy mohamed

Physician

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Central Contacts

Asmaa Abdelshafy Mohamed

Role: CONTACT

Asma.shafy@aun.edu.eg

0109950131

Noor el_deen Abdelazeem Mohamed

Role: CONTACT

noorelhefny@aun.edu.eg

0100503518

Other Identifiers

Echocardiogray in IBD

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id