An observational study in Crohn Disease (CD) and Postoperative Recurrence and Metastasis, sponsored by Sixth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University. Recruiting at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 70 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-17.
Sponsored by Sixth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University · Observational
This multicenter prospective observational cohort study aims to develop and validate a multimodal prediction model for postoperative recurrence in patients with Crohn's disease.
Patients with Crohn's disease who undergo intestinal resection will be enrolled and followed after surgery. Residual surgical tissue that would otherwise be discarded, together with routinely collected clinical data and biological samples, will be used for research. Multi-omics analyses, including single-cell transcriptomics and spatial transcriptomics, will be performed to identify biological features associated with postoperative recurrence.
Participants with Crohn's disease will be followed for clinical, endoscopic, and imaging recurrence after surgery. The study will use data from a screening cohort to develop a prediction model and a validation cohort to evaluate the performance of the model. A control group consisting of patients undergoing intestinal resection for conditions such as colorectal tumors or diverticular disease will also be included for comparative molecular analyses.
No treatment will be assigned by the study protocol. All treatment decisions will be made by the treating physicians according to routine clinical practice.
Crohn's disease is characterized by chronic relapsing intestinal inflammation, and a substantial proportion of patients eventually require intestinal resection because of complications such as strictures, penetrating disease, or failure of medical therapy. Postoperative recurrence remains common, but reliable biomarkers and validated prediction models for identifying patients at high risk of recurrence are still lacking.
This is a multicenter, prospective, observational cohort study designed to investigate the predictors and molecular mechanisms of postoperative recurrence in Crohn's disease. The study consists of a screening cohort and a validation cohort. Approximately 200 patients with Crohn's disease undergoing intestinal resection will be enrolled, including 100 participants in the screening cohort and 100 participants in the validation cohort. In addition, approximately 50 patients undergoing intestinal resection for colorectal tumors, diverticular disease, or other non-inflammatory bowel disease conditions will be enrolled as controls.
In the screening cohort, residual surgical specimens that would otherwise be discarded will be collected. Clinical characteristics, follow-up information, biological samples, and multi-omics data will also be collected. Molecular profiling will include analyses such as bulk transcriptomics, single-cell transcriptomics, spatial transcriptomics, proteomics, microbiome analysis, and metabolomics, as applicable. Differences between patients with and without postoperative recurrence will be evaluated, and machine-learning methods will be used to construct a multimodal prediction model.
The validation cohort will be used to evaluate the predictive performance of the multimodal model in a multicenter setting. Postoperative recurrence will be assessed using clinical, endoscopic, and imaging evaluations during follow-up. The study also aims to investigate molecular pathways associated with postoperative recurrence and to identify potential therapeutic targets.
This study is observational. No randomized assignment or protocol-mandated treatment will be provided. Clinical management and postoperative treatment decisions will be made independently by the treating physicians according to routine clinical practice.
1,992 studies on the registry are indexed under Crohn Disease; 478 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 250 is above the median of 185 across 645 observational studies indexed under Crohn Disease.
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Hospitalized or outpatient patients who require intestinal resection will be screened by the investigators. The study population includes patients with Crohn's disease undergoing clinically indicated intestinal resection and non-IBD control participants undergoing intestinal resection for conditions such as colorectal tumors or diverticular disease. Patients with Crohn's disease will be enrolled into a screening cohort or a multicenter validation cohort.
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Crohn's Disease Cohorts:
Non-IBD Control Cohort:
1.Patients who require surgical resection of an intestinal segment because of conditions such as colorectal tumors or diverticular disease.
Exclusion Criteria:
Crohn's Disease Cohorts:
Non-IBD Control Cohort:
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A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.
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Autoimmune disease
A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.
Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.
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Patients with Crohn's disease undergoing clinically indicated intestinal resection. Approximately 100 participants will be enrolled in this cohort. Residual surgical tissue, clinical characteristics, biological samples, and multi-omics data will be collected. Participants will be followed after surgery to identify clinical, endoscopic, and imaging recurrence. Data from this cohort will be used to identify molecular features associated with postoperative recurrence and to develop a multimodal prediction model.
Procedure: Intestinal Resection · Procedure: Biospecimen Collection
Patients with Crohn's disease undergoing clinically indicated intestinal resection. Approximately 100 participants will be enrolled in this multicenter validation cohort and followed after surgery. Clinical, endoscopic, imaging, and biological data will be collected to evaluate the predictive performance of the multimodal model developed in the screening cohort.
Procedure: Intestinal Resection · Procedure: Biospecimen Collection
Patients without inflammatory bowel disease who undergo clinically indicated intestinal resection for conditions such as colorectal tumors or diverticular disease. Approximately 50 participants will be enrolled. Residual surgical tissue that would otherwise be discarded will be collected for comparative molecular and multi-omics analyses.
Procedure: Intestinal Resection · Procedure: Biospecimen Collection
Participants undergo intestinal resection as clinically indicated as part of routine medical care. The surgical procedure is not assigned by the study protocol. Residual surgical tissue that would otherwise be discarded may be collected for research analyses.
Residual surgical tissue and biological samples are collected for research. Surgical tissue used for research consists of residual specimens remaining after routine clinical pathological examination. Samples may be used for transcriptomic, single-cell transcriptomic, spatial transcriptomic, proteomic, microbiome, metabolomic, and other multi-omics analyses.
Clinical Recurrence Rate at 6 Months
Clinical recurrence is defined as the recurrence of clinical manifestations or complications such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, hematochezia, fistula, or perforation, together with a Harvey-Bradshaw Index (HBI) \>4 or Crohn's Disease Activity Index (CDAI) \>150, with recurrence confirmed by endoscopic or imaging assessment. The outcome is reported as the proportion of participants with clinical recurrence.
Time frame: 6 months after intestinal resection
Endoscopic Recurrence Rate at 6 Months
Endoscopic recurrence is defined as a Rutgeerts score of i2 or higher on postoperative endoscopy after complete resection of macroscopically diseased bowel. The outcome is reported as the proportion of participants meeting the criterion for endoscopic recurrence.
Time frame: 6 months after intestinal resection
Endoscopic Recurrence Rate at 1 Year
Endoscopic recurrence is defined as a Rutgeerts score of i2 or higher on postoperative endoscopy after complete resection of macroscopically diseased bowel. The outcome is reported as the proportion of participants meeting the criterion for endoscopic recurrence.
Time frame: 1 year after intestinal resection
Clinical Recurrence Rate at 1 Year
Clinical recurrence is defined as recurrence of clinical manifestations or complications such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, hematochezia, fistula, or perforation, together with a Harvey-Bradshaw Index (HBI) \>4 or Crohn's Disease Activity Index (CDAI) \>150, with recurrence confirmed by endoscopic or imaging assessment. The outcome is reported as the proportion of participants with clinical recurrence.
Time frame: 1 year after intestinal resection
Imaging Recurrence Rate at 1 Year
Imaging recurrence is defined as a score of 2 or higher on computed tomography enterography (CTE) or magnetic resonance enterography (MRE) after surgical resection of the diseased bowel. The outcome is reported as the proportion of participants meeting the imaging recurrence criterion.
Time frame: 1 year after intestinal resection
Imaging Recurrence Rate at 6 Months
Imaging recurrence is defined as a score of 2 or higher on computed tomography enterography (CTE) or magnetic resonance enterography (MRE) after surgical resection of the diseased bowel. The outcome is reported as the proportion of participants meeting the imaging recurrence criterion.
Time frame: 6 months after intestinal resection
Reoperation or Endoscopic Treatment Rate at 1 Year
The outcome is defined as the proportion of participants who require repeat intestinal resection or endoscopic treatment because of Crohn's disease recurrence after the index intestinal resection. Stoma reversal procedures and surgeries for perianal disease are not counted as outcome events.
Time frame: 1 year after intestinal resection
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Started Jul 2025 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Dec 2028, 41 months after the start.
Of 231 non-industry observational studies under Crohn Disease, half reached primary completion within 47 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 32 and three quarters within 101. This study's planned 41 months is below that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 304 studies reached it within 42 months; a quarter within 29 and three quarters within 88.
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