Intestinal Elastography in the Diagnostics of Ulcerative Colitis: A Narrative Review.

ABSTRACT: Ulcerative colitis (UC) is an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that mainly affects developed countries, but the number of cases in developing countries is increasing. We conducted a narrative review on the potential application of ultrasound elastography in the diagnosis and monitoring of UC, as this newly emerging method has promising results in other gut diseases. This review fulfilled the PRISMA Statement criteria with a time cut-off of June 2022. At the end of the review, of the 1334 identified studies, only five fulfilled all the inclusion criteria. Due to the small number of studies in this field, a reliable assessment of the usefulness of ultrasound elastography is difficult. We can only conclude that the transabdominal elastography examination did not significantly differ from the

SUBMITTER: Cebula M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9497506 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature