Findings on intestinal ultrasound (IUS) are useful for predicting remission in recent-onset Crohn’s disease (CD), a prospective, population-based cohort of newly diagnosed patients in Denmark reported ...

In children hospitalised with acute severe ulcerative colitis on intravenous corticosteroids, intestinal ultrasound (IUS) parameters such as colonic wall thickness (CWT) were associated with ...

For patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), monitoring by intestinal ultrasound (IUS) results in reduced time to treatment change and to remission, according to a study presented at the annual ...

For more than a decade, Sharon Rosati-Wilkie needed a yearly colonoscopy to help manage her Crohn’s disease. Now she has something far better – the University of Chicago Medicine’s new, ...

Joe Bojanowski, 56, has had exactly one colonoscopy – and, not surprisingly, it made him grateful he hasn’t needed more. If he’d been diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) much earlier than ...

At the recent Digestive Disease Week (DDW) conference, a study was presented that assessed the predictive role of biomarkers and intestinal ultrasound parameters after infliximab (Remicade) induction ...

Sabina Ali, MD (front) uses a new intestinal ultrasound (IUS) machine on Dhiya Ravikumar (back) at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Walnut Creek. Photo by Brian Feulner Dhiya Ravikumar would ...