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Ultrasound Elastography in the Assessment of the Intestinal Changes in Inflammatory Bowel Disease—Systematic Review
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic condition affecting primarily the gastrointestinal tract and characterized by growing incidence worldwide. Complex diagnostic process of IBD as well as evaluation of disease activity and intestinal complications that are crucial for the therapeutic decis...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8470999/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34575156 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10184044 |
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author | Ślósarz, Dominika Poniewierka, Elżbieta Neubauer, Katarzyna Kempiński, Radosław |
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description | Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic condition affecting primarily the gastrointestinal tract and characterized by growing incidence worldwide. Complex diagnostic process of IBD as well as evaluation of disease activity and intestinal complications that are crucial for the therapeutic decisions, require repetitive, invasive, expensive, time-consuming and poorly tolerated tests. In contrast to endoscopy and computed tomography, ultrasound elastography (UE) is non-invasive, non-radiating and non-contrasting dependent tool which might be utilized in IBD patients for the assessment of the intestinal changes. Therefore, we performed the systematic review to evaluate the possible application of the ultrasound elastography for assessment of the intestinal changes in IBD. After the search of three databases: PubMed, World of Knowledge and Scopus, we identified 12 papers which were included in the final analysis. The majority of the studies were focused on the evaluation of the symptomatic ileal/ileocolonic strictures in Crohn’s disease patients that required surgical resection. Only one study concerned ulcerative colitis. The authors evaluated different UE techniques: strain elastography (SE), acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) and shear wave elastography (SWE). Results were expressed with semi-quantitative color mapping and strain measurement. Histological scores of inflammation and fibrosis in Crohn’s disease were used as a reference test in the majority of studies. Ultrasound elastography seems to be a promising novel imaging technique supporting evaluation of the intestinal strictures in Crohn’s disease patients in respect to fibrosis detection as well as differentiation between fibrosis and inflammation. However, further research is needed to establish the position of ultrasound elastography in IBD management. |
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spelling | pubmed-84709992021-09-27 Ultrasound Elastography in the Assessment of the Intestinal Changes in Inflammatory Bowel Disease—Systematic Review Ślósarz, Dominika Poniewierka, Elżbieta Neubauer, Katarzyna Kempiński, Radosław J Clin Med Review Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic condition affecting primarily the gastrointestinal tract and characterized by growing incidence worldwide. Complex diagnostic process of IBD as well as evaluation of disease activity and intestinal complications that are crucial for the therapeutic decisions, require repetitive, invasive, expensive, time-consuming and poorly tolerated tests. In contrast to endoscopy and computed tomography, ultrasound elastography (UE) is non-invasive, non-radiating and non-contrasting dependent tool which might be utilized in IBD patients for the assessment of the intestinal changes. Therefore, we performed the systematic review to evaluate the possible application of the ultrasound elastography for assessment of the intestinal changes in IBD. After the search of three databases: PubMed, World of Knowledge and Scopus, we identified 12 papers which were included in the final analysis. The majority of the studies were focused on the evaluation of the symptomatic ileal/ileocolonic strictures in Crohn’s disease patients that required surgical resection. Only one study concerned ulcerative colitis. The authors evaluated different UE techniques: strain elastography (SE), acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) and shear wave elastography (SWE). Results were expressed with semi-quantitative color mapping and strain measurement. Histological scores of inflammation and fibrosis in Crohn’s disease were used as a reference test in the majority of studies. Ultrasound elastography seems to be a promising novel imaging technique supporting evaluation of the intestinal strictures in Crohn’s disease patients in respect to fibrosis detection as well as differentiation between fibrosis and inflammation. However, further research is needed to establish the position of ultrasound elastography in IBD management. MDPI 2021-09-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8470999/ /pubmed/34575156 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10184044 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Ślósarz, Dominika Poniewierka, Elżbieta Neubauer, Katarzyna Kempiński, Radosław Ultrasound Elastography in the Assessment of the Intestinal Changes in Inflammatory Bowel Disease—Systematic Review |
title | Ultrasound Elastography in the Assessment of the Intestinal Changes in Inflammatory Bowel Disease—Systematic Review |
title_full | Ultrasound Elastography in the Assessment of the Intestinal Changes in Inflammatory Bowel Disease—Systematic Review |
title_fullStr | Ultrasound Elastography in the Assessment of the Intestinal Changes in Inflammatory Bowel Disease—Systematic Review |
title_full_unstemmed | Ultrasound Elastography in the Assessment of the Intestinal Changes in Inflammatory Bowel Disease—Systematic Review |
title_short | Ultrasound Elastography in the Assessment of the Intestinal Changes in Inflammatory Bowel Disease—Systematic Review |
title_sort | ultrasound elastography in the assessment of the intestinal changes in inflammatory bowel disease—systematic review |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8470999/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34575156 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10184044 |
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