Endoscopy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Endoscopy in inflammatory bowel disease.

Small bowel imaging and endoscopy in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) underwent a lot of change and advancement in the recent years. Modalities have shifted from gastroscopy, colonoscopy and small bowel follow through, to ileo-colonoscopy, computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance (MR), enteroscopy, wireless video capsule endoscopy and balloon assisted enteroscopy. Nowadays endoscopy has a...

Small Bowel Endoscopy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Crohn disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that affects the entire gastrointestinal tract but is most frequently localized to the large and small bowel. Small bowel endoscopy helps with the differential diagnosis of CD in suspected CD patients. Early diagnosis of CD is preferable for suspected CD conditions to improve chronic inflammatory infiltrates, fibrosis. Small bowel endos...

Endoscopy in Paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

The Study of Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

Background and aims: In diagnosing inflammatory bowel disease, one of diagnostic way is upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, which helps in differential diagnosis of unspecified colitis as well. The aim of this study was to investigate the necessity of upper gastrointestinal endoscopy in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.   Materials and Methods: In this descriptive cross-sectional...

European evidence based consensus for endoscopy in inflammatory bowel disease.

a Dept. Gastroenterology, University Hospital Careggi, Largo Brambilla 3, 50139 Florence, Italy b S.C. Gastroenterologia, A.O. Ordine Mauriziano, Corso Re Umberto 109, 10128 Torino, Italy c Tees Bowel Cancer Screening Centre, University Hospital of North Tees, Hardwick Road, TS19 8PE Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, UK d Durham University, County Durham, UK e Gastroenterology, CHU Henri Mondor, 51 ...