Effects of cleaning colon with hydragogue and colon cleaning device in patients before colonoscopy / 中华消化内镜杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To compare the effectiveness and side-effect of different bowel preparations. Methods Three hundreds and twelve patients preparing for colonoscopy were randomly divided into four groups; oral mannitol group ( group A) , oral senna leaf group ( group B) , colon cleaning device group (group C) and combination of group B and C (group D). Under the colonoscopy, the endoscopist blindly scored the cleaning of each bowel segment as class 0 to 4 (0, fecal mass at rectosigmoid; 1, cleaning up to sigmoid; 2, cleaning up to descending colon; 3, cleaning up to transverse colon; 4, cleaning of entire colon ) and the degree of cleaning as optimal (Ⅰ) , acceptable ( Ⅱ ) or dissatisfied (Ⅲ). Results The cleaning rate (88. 6% ) of pan colon in group D was higher than that of group A ( 15. 4% , P