ArticleCanadian journal of gastroenterology & hepatology2016
Point of Care Ultrasound Accurately Distinguishes Inflammatory from Noninflammatory Disease in Patients Presenting with Abdominal Pain and Diarrhea.
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- The introduction of an intestinal ultrasound service is associated with significantly reduced endoscopy usage in an inflammatory bowel disease service-the SCOPELESS study.Journal of Crohn's & colitis · 2026Article
- Correlation of Point-of-Care Intestinal Ultrasound With Endoscopic Disease Severity in Crohn's Disease.JGH open : an open access journal of gastroenterology and hepatology · 2025Article
- Experimental study and clinical significance of the impact of gastrointestinal motility disorders on hepatic blood perfusion.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Moving beyond Symptom Criteria to Diagnose and Treat Functional Disorders: Patient-Reported Symptoms of Functional Lower Gastrointestinal Disorders Correlate Poorly with Objective Assessment of Luminal Contents Seen on Intestinal Ultrasound.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Prediction of mechanical ventilation outcome by early abdominal-visceral-blood-flow-and-function score in critically ill patients after cardiopulmonary bypass in the ICU: A prospective observational study.Journal of intensive medicine · 2024Article
- Bedside Intestinal Ultrasound Performed in an Inflammatory Bowel Disease Urgent Assessment Clinic Improves Clinical Decision-Making and Resource Utilization.Crohn's & colitis 360 · 2023Article
- Positioning intestinal ultrasound in a UK tertiary centre: significant estimated clinical role and cost savings.Frontline gastroenterology · 2023Article
- The Colon Wall Thickness Measured Using Transabdominal Ultrasonography Is Useful for Detecting Mucosal Inflammation in Ulcerative Colitis.Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) · 2022Article
- Treat to transmural healing: how to incorporate intestinal ultrasound into the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease.The British journal of radiology · 2022Review
- Ultrasound use to assess Crohn's disease in the UK: a survey of British Society of Gastroenterology Inflammatory Bowel Disease Group members.Frontline gastroenterology · 2022Article
- Gastrointestinal Ultrasound in Functional Disorders of the Gastrointestinal Tract - EFSUMB Consensus Statement.Ultrasound international open · 2021Review
- Accuracy of point-of-care intestinal ultrasound for Crohn's disease.Australasian journal of ultrasound in medicine · 2020Article
- Radiation Exposure in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: a Fourteen-Year Review at a Tertiary Care Centre in MalaysiaAsian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2017Article
- Point-of-care ultrasonography as a training milestone for internal medicine residents: the time is now.Journal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives · 2016Article
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Abstract
Background. Approaches to distinguish inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) from noninflammatory disease that are noninvasive, accurate, and readily available are desirable. Such approaches may decrease time to diagnosis and better utilize limited endoscopic resources. The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy for gastroenterologist performed point of care ultrasound (POCUS) in the detection of luminal inflammation relative to gold standard ileocolonoscopy. Methods. A prospective, single-center study was conducted on convenience sample of patients presenting with symptoms of diarrhea and/or abdominal pain. Patients were offered POCUS prior to having ileocolonoscopy. Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV) with 95% confidence intervals (CI), as well as likelihood ratios, were calculated. Results. Fifty-eight patients were included in this study. The overall sensitivity, specificity, PPV, and NPV were 80%, 97.8%, 88.9%, and 95.7%, respectively, with positive and negative likelihood ratios (LR) of 36.8 and 0.20. Conclusion. POCUS can accurately be performed at the bedside to detect transmural inflammation of the intestine. This noninvasive approach may serve to expedite diagnosis, improve allocation of endoscopic resources, and facilitate initiation of appropriate medical therapy.
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