ReviewAbdominal radiology (New York)2018
Role of contrast-enhanced ultrasound in evaluation of the bowel.
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32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 88 citations in OpenAlex.
- Review Article: Extending the Frontiers of Intestinal Ultrasound Knowledge, Performance and Expansion.Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics · 2026Pooled it
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy alters bowel perfusion and improves outcomes in patients with treatment-refractory ulcerative colitis: a prospective pilot trial.Journal of Crohn's & colitis · 2026Trial
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- Standardizing Safety Practices for Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound in Radiology.Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine · 2025Article
- Contrast-enhanced ultrasound in pregnancy.Abdominal radiology (New York) · 2025Review
- A Comprehensive and Repeatable Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Quantification Approach for Clinical Evaluations of Tumor Blood Flow.Investigative radiology · 2025Article
- Ultrasound of the bowel with a focus on IBD: the new best practice.Abdominal radiology (New York) · 2025Review
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- Ultrasound imaging of bowel obstruction in infants and children.La Radiologia medica · 2024Review
- Current Developments and Role of Intestinal Ultrasound including the Advent of AI.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Abdominal perfusion in canine patients with pyometra and sepsis evaluated by Doppler and contrast-enhanced ultrasound.BMC veterinary research · 2023Article
- PET assessment of acute gastrointestinal graft versus host disease.Bone marrow transplantation · 2023Review
- Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasonography for the Evaluation of Crohn's Disease in Pediatric Patients.Journal of Korean medical science · 2023Article
- Dynamic contrast enhanced ultrasound in gastrointestinal diseases: A current trend or an indispensable tool?World journal of gastroenterology · 2023Review
- Submucosal fat accumulation in Crohn's disease: evaluation with sonography.Intestinal research · 2023Article
- The Utility of Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound and Elastography in the Early Detection of Fibro-Stenotic Ileal Strictures in Children with Crohn's Disease.Pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology & nutrition · 2023Article
- Aptamer-Functionalized Microbubbles Targeted to P-selectin for Ultrasound Molecular Imaging of Murine Bowel Inflammation.Molecular imaging and biology · 2023Article
- Intestinal Ultrasound Early on in Treatment Follow-up Predicts Endoscopic Response to Anti-TNFα Treatment in Crohn's Disease.Journal of Crohn's & colitis · 2022Article
- Ultrasonographic scores for ileal Crohn's disease assessment: Better, worse or the same as contrast-enhanced ultrasound?BMC gastroenterology · 2022Article
- Impact of intestinal ultrasound with a portable system in the management of Crohn's disease.Gastroenterology report · 2021Article
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Abstract
Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) of the gastrointestinal tract provides vascular information helpful for characterizing masses and other pathologies in and around the bowel, similar to contrast applications in other solid organs. However, the use of microbubble contrast agents for the bowel provides additional unique contributions as it gives both subjective and objective information about mural and mesenteric blood flow, invaluable for the determination of disease activity in those many patients affected by inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). IBD is a lifelong chronic disease and has its peak age of onset in adolescence or young adult life. Today, we have moved away from treating patient's symptoms and strive instead to alter the course of disease by obtaining mucosal healing. Expensive and aggressive biologic therapies and lack of agreement of patient's symptoms with their disease activity and complications necessitate frequent imaging surveillance, which must be safe, readily available, inexpensive, and effective. Ultrasound with the benefit of contrast enhancement meets these requirements and is shown in meta-analysis to be equivalent to CT and MRI scans for these indications.
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