A magnetic resonance enterography index for assessing small bowel Crohn's disease activity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study aimed to construct a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) index for assessing transmural inflammatory activity in the small intestine of patients with Crohn' disease which enables rapid and non-invasive quantitative assessment of Crohn's disease inflammation.

Methods

In this prospective study, magnetic resonance enterography (MRE) was performed to examine 29 consecutive patients with Crohn's disease who had undergone ileocolonoscopy in the Jingling hospital of Nanjing. This diagnostic study was not registered on a clinical trial platform. We grade the T2 signal ratio and T1 enhancement ratio with a score of 0 to 3. The ratios were calculated as follow: terminal ileal inflammation of intestinal T2 signal intensity/adjacent normal intestinal T2 signal intensi

SUBMITTER: Zuo Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10102792 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature