ReviewTherapeutic advances in gastroenterology2018
Advanced imaging techniques for small bowel Crohn's disease: what does the future hold?
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Abbreviated non-contrast magnetic resonance enterography for Crohn's disease: a reliability study.La Radiologia medica · 2026Article
- Recent advances in the management of small bowel Crohn's disease.The Korean journal of internal medicine · 2026Review
- Biodegradable ultrasound contrast tape for tracing intestinal motility.Nature communications · 2025Article
- The diagnostic value of two-dimensional ultrasound Su-RADS combined with shear wave elastography for benign and malignant lesions of the gastric wall.BMC medical imaging · 2024Article
- Elastography as a Discriminator Between Fibrotic and Inflammatory Strictures in Crohn's Disease: A Dead End or Bright Future in Clinical Decision-Making? Critical Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Radiology of fibrosis part II: abdominal organs.Journal of translational medicine · 2024Review
- Inflammatory bowel disease cross-sectional imaging: What's new?United European gastroenterology journal · 2022Review
- Diagnostic Accuracy of Magnetic Resonance Enterography for the Evaluation of Active and Fibrotic Inflammation in Crohn's Disease.Frontiers in surgery · 2022Article
- Crohn's disease at radiological imaging: focus on techniques and intestinal tract.Intestinal research · 2021Review
- Lemann Index for Assessment of Crohn's Disease: Correlation with the Quality of Life, Endoscopic Disease Activity, Magnetic Resonance Index of Activity and C- Reactive Protein.Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) · 2019Article
- Intestinal ultrasound in assessment of suspected Crohn's disease in patients with negative ileocolonoscopy: a paradigm shift?Therapeutic advances in gastroenterology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Treatment of Crohn's disease (CD) is intrinsically reliant on imaging techniques, due to the preponderance of small bowel disease and its transmural pattern of inflammation. Ultrasound (US), computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are the most widely employed imaging methods and have excellent diagnostic accuracy in most instances. Some limitations persist, perhaps the most clinically relevant being the distinction between inflammatory and fibrotic strictures. In this regard, several methodologies have recently been tested in animal models and human patients, namely US strain elastography, shear wave elastography, contrast-enhanced US, magnetization transfer MRI and contrast dynamics in standard MRI. Technical advances in each of the imaging methods may expand their indications. The addition of oral contrast to abdominal US appears to substantially improve its diagnostic capabilities compared to standard US. Ionizing dose-reduction methods in CT can decrease concern about cumulative radiation exposure in CD patients and diffusion-weighted MRI may reduce the need for gadolinium contrast. Clinical indexes of disease activity and severity are also increasingly relying on imaging scores, such as the recently developed Lémann Index. In this review we summarize some of the recent advances in small bowel CD imaging and how they might affect clinical practice in the near future.
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