Clinical Trial: Plain Magnetic Resonance (MR) in the Assessment of Patients With Acute Abdomen

Study Status: Withdrawn
Recruit Status: Withdrawn
Study Type: Interventional

Official Title: Assessment of Patients With Nontraumatic Acute Abdominal Pain With Plain MR of the Abdomen - a Comparison With CT

Brief Summary: At present, CT is the gold standard in the assessment of patients with acute abdomen. Yet, one CT of the abdomen exposes patients to a radiation dose equivalent to several years of background radiation. MR can be expected to yield the same information without ionizing radiation, but tends to be more time consuming. In this study, patients with nontraumatic acute abdominal pain referred to CT of the abdomen by the department of surgery will also have performed an additional MR scan covering the entire abdomen with few fast imaging sequences in approximately 15min. CT is the diagnostic test. The MR scan is only used for scientific purposes. It will be evaluated by a radiologist blinded for the results of the CT scan. Fourteen days after admission, a final diagnosis is established based on clinical, peroperative, pathological and lab. findings. The performance of CT and MR will then be compared. The investigators hypothesize that MR can provide a diagnostic accuracy comparable to CT.

Detailed Summary:
Sponsor: Zealand University Hospital

Current Primary Outcome: diagnostic accuracy of CT vs. MR [ Time Frame: 14 days ]

Original Primary Outcome: Same as current

Current Secondary Outcome:

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Information By: Zealand University Hospital

Dates:
Date Received: January 6, 2010
Date Started: October 2011
Date Completion:
Last Updated: January 29, 2017
Last Verified: January 2017