Healio

Intestinal ultrasound helps monitor response in ulcerative colitis

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Assessing bowel wall thickness with intestinal ultrasound can be a helpful tool to monitor therapeutic response ...
Medscape

Ultrasound Popular With Patients to Monitor IBD

Intestinal ultrasound is highly acceptable and well tolerated by patients with inflammatory bowel disease, reflecting strong ...
Healio

Intestinal ultrasound effectively measures bowel wall thickness, endoscopic disease

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A point-of-care intestinal ultrasound effectively assessed endoscopic disease severity through bowel wall ...
Medscape

Ultrasound for Small Bowel Crohn's Strictures Recommended

Experts agree that intestinal ultrasound is repeatable, well-tolerated, and accurately diagnoses and provides a monitoring strategy for small bowel Crohn's disease strictures. Diverse roundtable panel ...
University of California

There’s a more humane way to monitor Crohn’s and colitis patients

Joe Bojanowski, 56, has had exactly one colonoscopy – and, not surprisingly, it made him grateful he hasn’t needed more. If he’d been diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) much earlier than ...
EurekAlert!

A new ultrasound technology is revolutionizing IBD care at UNC School of Medicine

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – For gastroenterologists, getting eyes on the gut traditionally requires timely MRI testing or endoscopy procedures. Patients grappling with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) must ...
Nature

Real-time bowel ultrasound to characterize intestinal motility in the preterm neonate

To characterize normal patterns of intestinal motility by ultrasound (US) in the preterm neonate during the first 5 days of life. Bowel US examinations were performed with an US machine (Vivid-i, ...
EurekAlert!

Intestinal ultrasound offers in-clinic visualization of the bowel for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis patients

For more than a decade, Sharon Rosati-Wilkie needed a yearly colonoscopy to help manage her Crohn’s disease. Now she has something far better – the University of Chicago Medicine’s new, ...
UC San Francisco

New and Easier Way to Monitor Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Kids

Sabina Ali, MD (front) uses a new intestinal ultrasound (IUS) machine on Dhiya Ravikumar (back) at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Walnut Creek. Photo by Brian Feulner Dhiya Ravikumar would ...
Nature

Transmural penetration of intravenously applied microbubbles during contrast-enhanced ultrasound as a new diagnostic feature in patients with GVHD of the bowel

Allogeneic PBSCT is a well-established treatment modality for a variety of nonmalignant and malignant disorders. Acute GVHD is a major complication after allo-SCT, and can cause severe damage to skin, ...
Fox 5 San Diego

A first of its kind locally, Scripps doctors are now using ultrasounds to monitor IBD

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