Detecting and managing small bowel Crohn’s disease – capsule endoscopy becoming a first line diagnostic method?
- Small bowel endoscopy is crucial for diagnosing small bowel Crohn’s disease, and capsule endoscopy is complemented by balloon-assisted enteroscopy to take biopsies and by magnetic resonance imaging to visualize enteral and extra-intestinal involvement. Recently, imaging has also become a key instrument to manage Crohn’s disease patients. Treatment control is advised for patients who have undergone bowel resections and is increasingly used to testify treatment success in non-operated patients, too. In this review we present the modern imaging methods to diagnose and to manage Crohn’s disease with a special focus on the small bowel. Moreover, current knowledge on the impact of diagnostic methods on the patients’ outcome is reported.
| Author: | Johannes HausmannORCiDGND, Jörg Gerhard AlbertORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-242883 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.4172/jgds.S1-002 |
| ISSN: | 2161-069X |
| Parent Title (English): | Journal of Gastrointestinal & Digestive System |
| Publisher: | OMICS Publishing Group |
| Place of publication: | Sunnyvale, Calif. |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2012/08/10 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2011/11/15 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2012/08/10 |
| Tag: | Capsule endoscopy; Crohn’s disease; Small bowel endoscopy |
| Volume: | 2011 |
| Issue: | S1-002 |
| Page Number: | 5 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 307232344 |
| Institutes: | Medizin / Medizin |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0 |
