What the trial was testing
The ENRICH-US enrolled 597 patients with crohn's disease. The study was sponsored by Northwestern University and tracked outcomes across the full group of patients who matched the trial's eligibility profile.
It was a large trial designed to confirm whether the treatment works well enough for wider use. Trials at this stage are designed to produce evidence regulators and physicians can act on — not just observations to follow up later.
What the results showed
Kids who followed the full recovery plan went home more than a day sooner and had half the complications.
JAMA surgery · 2026 · NCT04060303
These findings — that kids who got the full recovery program went home more than a day sooner — were published in the JAMA surgery and represent the headline result of the study.
Researchers tracked outcomes across 597 patients enrolled in the trial. The result was consistent enough across the group that the team felt confident reporting it.
What this means for patients
For patients with crohn's disease, this result changes the calculus on what to ask their care team about. Whether it changes day-to-day care depends on factors like disease subtype, prior treatments, and where the patient is in their care journey.
What you can do now
If your child is having bowel surgery, ask if the hospital uses an enhanced recovery program. This approach helps kids eat sooner, use less pain medicine, and move around faster after surgery — and it can mean a shorter hospital stay and fewer problems. The program is available at some children's hospitals now, though not everywhere yet.
Eligibility for the treatments mentioned above depends on specific test results and clinical history. Bring this summary, the trial name, and your most recent labs or pathology report to your next visit.
Open crohn's disease trials
Intermittent Caloric Restriction in Patients With Mild to Moderate Crohn's Disease
Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. CD is a common inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), frequent (150,000 patients in France and 1.5 million in Europe), disabling and incurable. The environmental factors, and in particular diet, play a major role in the pathogenesis of CD. The prevalence of CD is steadily increasing in highly industrialized countries, where the Western diet rich in saturated fats and refined sugars, is blamed for this to explain this true pandemic. On the other hand, enteral nutrition, exclusive or partial, is known to be effective in the initial treatment of CD, especially in pediatrics. There are a number of evidence in favor of a nutritional management nutritional management of caloric restriction during inflammatory diseases such as psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis,whose physiopathology is similar to that of IBD. To date, and despite patient concern, there is no consensus nutritional in the management of CD to influence the natural course of the disease. The investigators have decided to initiate a clinical study to evaluate for the first time the efficacy, acceptability and safety of intermittent caloric restriction in patients with CD.
Phase 3 Study of Human TH-SC01 Cell Injection for Treating Perianal Fistulas in Patients With Crohn's Disease
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of human TH-SC01 cell injection for the treatment of perianal fistulas in Crohn's Disease over 24 weeks.