Randomized Controlled Trial
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World J Gastroenterol. Dec 28, 2016; 22(48): 10673-10679
Published online Dec 28, 2016. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v22.i48.10673
Effects of premedication with Pronase for endoscopic ultrasound of the stomach: A randomized controlled trial
Guo-Xin Wang, Xiang Liu, Sheng Wang, Nan Ge, Jin-Tao Guo, Si-Yu Sun
Guo-Xin Wang, Xiang Liu, Sheng Wang, Nan Ge, Jin-Tao Guo, Si-Yu Sun, Endoscopy Center, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110004, Liaoning Province, China
Author contributions: Wang GX and Sun SY were involved in the study conception and design; Wang GX drafted the article and analyzed and interpreted the data; Liu X performed critical revision of the article for important intellectual content and collected data; Wang S performed the endoscopic procedure and statistical analysis; Ge N and Guo JT conducted the EUS imaging evaluation; all authors provided approval of the final article.
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 81470908.
Institutional review board statement: This study was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University.
Clinical trial registration statement: The trial was registered in the Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (www.chictr.org.cn). The registration identification number is ChiCTR-DPD-15006240.
Informed consent statement: All study participants provided informed written consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: None of the authors have any competing interests or financial ties to disclose.
Data sharing statement: The technical appendix, statistical code, and data set are available from the corresponding author.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Si-Yu Sun, MD, PhD, Professor, Endoscopy Center, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, No. 36 Sanhao Street, Shenyang 110004, Liaoning Province, China. sun-siyu@163.com
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Received: October 13, 2016
Peer-review started: October 14, 2016
First decision: November 14, 2016
Revised: November 22, 2016
Accepted: November 23, 2016
Article in press: November 28, 2016
Published online: December 28, 2016
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Core Tip

Core tip: Previous studies have confirmed that Pronase can improve the quality of endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) images. Based on previous findings, this study hypothesized that Pronase could further shorten the duration of examination and reduce the usage of physiological saline during EUS examination through improving the quality of EUS images. Moreover, this study verified this hypothesis. This study found that for EUS examination, preoperative application of Pronase could provide clearer ultrasound images, shorten the duration of EUS examination, and reduce the intraoperative usage of physiological saline.