ArticleActa radiologica open2019
Acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) shear wave elastography of the bowel wall in healthy volunteers and in ulcerative colitis.
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- Treat-to-Target in Ulcerative Colitis: How Soon Is Now?Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Novelties and Perspectives of Intestinal Ultrasound in the Personalised Management of Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases-A Systematic Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Current Developments and Role of Intestinal Ultrasound including the Advent of AI.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- The Role of Transabdominal Ultrasound Elastography in Gastrointestinal Non-Liver Diseases: Current Application and Future Prospectives.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Intestinal Elastography in the Diagnostics of Ulcerative Colitis: A Narrative Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Evaluation of ulcerative colitis activity using transabdominal ultrasound shear wave elastography.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2022Article
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- Ultrasound Elastography in the Assessment of the Intestinal Changes in Inflammatory Bowel Disease-Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Review
- Using shear wave elasticity in normal terminal ileum of a healthy southwest Chinese population: a pilot study of reference elasticity ranges.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundAcoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) elastography is a non-invasive, ultrasound-based approach of evaluation of tissue elasticity. It has not yet been systematically applied to the bowel wall. PURPOSE: To perform ARFI elastography of the bowel wall in healthy volunteers and patients with ulcerative colitis (UC). MATERIAL AND
methodsA high-frequency ultrasound (with bowel wall thickness and vascularization score) and an ARFI elastography of the bowel wall were performed in 20 patients with UC and 13 healthy volunteers. At least 10 ARFI measurements were obtained within the terminal ileum and the ascending, transverse, descending, and sigmoid colon and correlated with results of high-frequency ultrasound.
resultsThe UC group had mostly moderate disease activity. All patients had signs of inflammation upon B-mode ultrasound. Eight patients showed an ulcerative (ileo)pancolitis. Overall, ARFI elastography values and wall thickness were higher in the UC group than in the group of healthy volunteers (
conclusionARFI elastography of the bowel wall of the colonic frame and the terminal ileum is feasible but shows high standard deviation. ARFI shear wave velocities appear to be slightly higher in patients with UC than in healthy volunteers, particularly in the sigmoid and transverse colon. Further studies are needed.
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