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Color Doppler Ultrasound Assessment of Clinical Activity in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Author(s): F. Celikyay, R. Yuksekkaya*, M. Yuksekkaya and A. Kefeli

Volume 17, Issue 6, 2021

Published on: 28 December, 2020

Page: [741 - 750] Pages: 10

DOI: 10.2174/0929867328666201228124621

Abstract

Background: Ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD) are two varieties of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Clinicians need a monitoring technique in the IBD. The disease activity can be assessed with endoscopy, activity indexes, and imaging techniques. Color Doppler US (CDUS) is also a non-invasive, radiation, and contrast material free examination which shows the intramural blood flow.

Objective: To evaluate the usefulness of B-mode, CDUS, and a newly developed software Color Quantification (CQ) to determine the activity of the IBD.

Methods: The disease activity was assessed by clinical activity indexes. Caecum, terminal ileum, ascending colon, transverse colon, and descending colon were evaluated by B-mode, CDUS, and the CQ. Bowel wall thickness (BWT), loss of bowel stratification, loss of haustration, and the presence of enlarged lymph nodes, mesenteric masses, abscesses, fistula, visual vascular signal patterns of the bowel as “hypo and hyper-flow” and the CQ values were investigated. BWT was compared with laboratory results and clinical activities. Vascular signal patterns and the CQ values were compared with BWT and clinical activity. The diagnostic performances of the CQ were investigated.

Results: Fifty-two patients with IBD were evaluated. Patients with increased BWT at the transverse colon had an increased frequency of “hyper-flow” pattern. Clinically active patients had an increased incidence of “hyper-flow” pattern at the terminal ileum, ascending colon, and whole segments. They had increased CQ values at the terminal ileum, ascending colon, and descending colon, and whole segments. A cut-off value for the CQ (24.7%) was obtained at the terminal ileum. In the diagnostic performances of CQ, we observed utilities significantly at the ascending colon, descending colon, terminal ileum, and whole segments. There was a positive correlation between the CQ values and BWT at the caecum, ascending colon, transverse colon, and descending colon.

Conclusion: Increased visual vascular signal scores and CQ values might be useful for monitoring the disease activity in patients with IBD.

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