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ReviewDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Role of Intestinal Ultrasound for IBD Care: A Practical Approach.

Joerg C Hoffmann, Tobias Ungewitter

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Review in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Diagnostic accuracy of the international bowel ultrasound segmental activity score for assessing disease activity in Crohn's disease.Indian journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Joerg C HoffmannGastroenterologie am Herrngarten, Frankfurter Str. 3, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany.
Tobias UngewitterMedizinische Klinik I, Vincentiuskrankenhaus, 76829 Landau, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intestinal ultrasound (IUS) has recently become the imaging technique of choice for patients with different types of intestinal inflammation. IUS has a high sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value when diagnosing Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis. Further, it is now the preferred imaging modality for routine IBD reevaluations because of its non-invasiveness, cost-effectiveness, availability (at least in Europe), and reproducibility in all age groups. However, the clinical success of IUS requires IUS training for doctors and technicians who perform IUS with a standardised description of ultrasound findings of the terminal ileum and entire colon. Complications such as abscess formation, fistulae, and stenosis can be detected by either conventional IUS or contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS). Lately, several disease activity scores have been proposed for Crohn's disease, postoperative Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis both in adults (including elderly) and in children. IUS was successfully used in randomised clinical trials in order to measure the treatment response. Therefore, IUS now plays a central role in clinical decision making.

Indexed as

Crohn’s diseasediagnostic algorithmimagingstandardised reportingtherapeutic algorithmulcerative colitis

Identifiers

PMID39125517
PMCPMC11311560

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