Usefulness of an intensive bowel cleansing strategy for repeat colonoscopy after preparation failure.

Background: No consensus exists regarding the optimal bowel preparation regimen for patients with poor bowel cleansing at a previous colonoscopy.

Objective: We investigated the usefulness of an intensive cleansing regimen for repeat colonoscopy after previous failure of bowel preparation.

Design And Setting: A prospective observational study was performed in patients undergoing colonoscopy at a university-based, tertiary referral hospital.