Clinical Trial Details
— Status: Not yet recruiting
Administrative data
NCT number |
NCT05223452 |
Other study ID # |
US IN IBD |
Secondary ID |
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Status |
Not yet recruiting |
Phase |
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First received |
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Last updated |
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Start date |
May 1, 2022 |
Est. completion date |
July 2023 |
Study information
Verified date |
January 2022 |
Source |
Assiut University |
Contact |
shrouk gad |
Phone |
01028565525 |
Email |
shroukgad863[@]gmail.com |
Is FDA regulated |
No |
Health authority |
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Study type |
Observational
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Clinical Trial Summary
The aim of this article is to provide an extensive overview of the actual role of bowel
ultrasound in the detection and follow-up of patients with chronic inflammatory bowel disease
Description:
The inflammatory bowel disease is a chronic bowel disorder; it can involve the whole
gastrointestinal tract, but its localization in the ileum or colon is most common. The
reference standard for the diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease is ileocolonoscopy with
histologic assessment. Dan Carter, Lior H. Katz, Eytan Bardan, Eti Salomon, Shulamit
Goldstein, Shomron Ben Horin, Uri Kopylov, and Rami Eliakim The reference standard for the
detection of any complications is surgery. However, imaging techniques have an important role
both in the detection/localization of C D and in the followup of C D patients. In the last
few years, the technical development of ultrasound equipment, the advent of new technologies
such as elastography and mostly the increased expertise of sonographers have boosted the role
of bowel ultrasound in assessment of the gastrointestinal tract. In fact, bowel ultrasound is
particularly attractive thanks to its widespread availability, non-invasiveness, low cost and
good reproducibility, as it can be easily repeated during follow-up Clara Benedetta Conti ,
Mariangela Giunta , Daniele Gridavilla , Dario Conte , Mirella Fraquelli . Bowel ultrasound
has become the first-line imaging technique for patients with suspected C rohn's disease
because it is cheap ,less radiation effect ,it can be done more than one time for follow up
these patient . Some signs, for example, bowel loop elasticity (i.e., the capability of the
bowel wall to collapse on the bowel lumen and return to the original size and shape after
manual compression and decompression) and compressibility at probe contact and peristalsis
(usually impaired), are not specific, whereas other signs, such as the characteristics of the
bowel wall, are more specific. Among the latter, the most important sign is bowel wall
thickening (BWT) . Also important are bowel wall echo pattern characteristics (BWP) , the
presence of any margin irregularity and the grade of vascularity at echo color Doppler or
power Doppler . Other yet less frequent signs are the luminal alterations, such as the
distension or any luminal stenosis. Other possible findings outside the bowel loop are
mesenteric hypertrophy , enlarged mesenteric lymph nodes and free fluid in the abdominal
cavity or among the bowel loops .