ArticleSpinal cord2018
Colorectal cancer screening in patients with spinal cord injury yields similar results to the general population with an effective bowel preparation: a retrospective chart audit.
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- Faecal occult blood testing in persons aged 50-74 years with established spinal cord injury: a prospective case series.Spinal cord series and cases · 2025Article
- Primary Care in the Spinal Cord Injury Population: Things to Consider in the Ongoing Discussion.Current physical medicine and rehabilitation reports · 2023Review
- Colorectal cancer mortality after spinal cord injury.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2022Article
- Recommendations for evaluation of neurogenic bladder and bowel dysfunction after spinal cord injury and/or disease.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2020Review
- Bowel Dysfunction in Spinal Cord Injury.Current gastroenterology reports · 2018Review
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designRetrospective chart audit.
objectivesTo compare adequacy of colonoscopy bowel preparation and diagnostic findings between persons with SCI receiving an extended inpatient bowel preparation and the general population.
settingVeterans Affairs Puget Sound Healthcare System, Seattle, WA, USA.
methodsWe reviewed an electronic database of all colonoscopies performed at a tertiary Veterans Affairs medical center between 7/12/13 and 15/10/15. Patients with SCI received a multi-day bowel preparation with magnesium citrate, and 8-10 liters of polyethylene glycol-3350 and electrolyte colonic lavage solution (PEG-ELS) over two and one half days. The control population received a standard bowel preparation consisting of magnesium citrate and 4 liters of PEG-ELS over 1 day.
resultsTwo hundred and fifty-five patients were included in the study, including 85 patients with SCI. Average risk screening was a more common colonoscopy indication in patients with SCI vs. the control population (24 vs. 13% p = 0.03). There was no difference in adequacy of bowel preparation (87 vs. 85%, p = 0.73) or adenoma detection rate (55 vs. 51%, p = 0.59) when comparing patients with SCI with the control population. No difference in polyp histopathology was detected (p = 0.748).
conclusionsOur study demonstrated that an extended bowel preparation for patients with SCI produces similar bowel preparation results and diagnostic yield when compared to patients without SCI undergoing colonoscopy.
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