a non invasive technique such as SICUS can be used to detect minimal CD lesions, i.e. low grade recurrence limited to ileo-colonic anastomosis the intestinal wall thickness measured at the level ...

Conclusion Radiation exposure in Crohn’s disease appears to be increasing despite new modalities such as ultrasound and MRI. The increase is attributed to the increased use of CT scanning, as ...

Diagnosis of Crohn's disease (CD) is often challenging and ... computed tomographic enterography and intestinal ultrasound) and noninvasive markers of disease such as fecal calprotectin and ...

The aim of this prospective study was to evaluate the accuracy of a new technique (hydrogen peroxide enhanced ultrasound (US)-fistulography) compared with conventional xray fistulogram and/or surgical ...

Intestinal ultrasound (IUS) responses were assessed ... Italy and principal investigator, said: “Crohn's disease patients may respond to treatment while continuing to experience internal ...

Medical records research — uses historical information collected from medical records of large groups of people to study how diseases progress and which treatments and surgeries work best. Participant ...

Crohn’s disease is an immune-mediated inflammatory disease of the gastrointestinal tract and can involve different areas of the digestive tract in different people. It occurs because of a ...

Crohn’s disease is swelling and redness (inflammation ... At Seattle Children’s, we try to use methods that use low or no radiation, such as ultrasound and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging). Some ...

HealthDay News — Intestinal ultrasound (IU) can be considered a screening tool for pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a study published online Dec. 24 in the Journal of Pediatric ...

About 40,000 children in the U.S. suffer from Crohn's disease, a chronic inflammatory disease of the gut that causes diarrhea, cramping and pain. Of those children, about one in three will develop ...

In all the patients the following examinations were performed: biochemical tests evaluating liver and bile duct function, immunological examinations—levels of IgA, M, G, autoantibodies (ANCA, ASCA, ...