Predictors of Durability of Radiological Response in Patients With Small Bowel Crohn's Disease.

ABSTRACT: Background:The long-term significance of radiological transmural response (TR) as a treatment goal at the first follow-up scan in small bowel Crohn's disease (CD) has been previously shown. We examined the durability of a long-term strategy of treating to a target of radiological TR and the influence of baseline predictors on the maintenance of TR. Methods:Small bowel CD patients between January 1, 2002, and December 31, 2014, were identified with serial computed tomography enterography (CTE)/magnetic resonance enterography (MRE) before and after initiation of therapy or on maintenance therapy. Overall TR (inflammatory lesions with/without strictures) w1as characterized by abdominal radiologists in up to 5 small bowel lesions per patient at each serial scan until last follow-up or small bo

SUBMITTER: Deepak P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6391864 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature