Abstract Background and Aims No consensus exists on defining intestinal ultrasound
response, transmural healing, or transmural remission in inflammatory bowel disease, nor …

Evolution of treatment targets in IBD has increased the need for objective monitoring of
disease activity to guide therapeutic strategy. Although mucosal healing is the current target …

There are several scoring systems presently available to classify disease severity in
ulcerative colitis [UC] within the multiple domains of disease activity, which aid objective …

This manuscript describes the use of ultrasound elastography, with the exception of liver
applications, and represents an update of the 2013 EFSUMB (European Federation of …

The accuracy and usefulness of gastrointestinal ultrasound (GIUS) for detecting activity and
complications of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), has been reported in studies …

In October 2014 the European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and
Biology formed a Gastrointestinal Ultrasound (GIUS) task force group to promote the use of …

Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic relapsing and remitting disease that can affect any
segments of the gastrointestinal tract. More than 50% of patients with CD develop stricturing …

Abstract Background and Aims Ultrasound elastography [USE] is an innovative, non-
invasive, promptly available, ancillary technique that has been proposed in the evaluation of …

Background Inflammation, fibrosis, and muscular hypertrophy lead to thickened bowel in
Crohn's disease forming strictures. Ultrasound shear wave elastography (SWE) measures …

Background and aim The distinction of intestinal fibrosis from inflammation in Crohn's
disease (CD) associated strictures has important therapeutic implications. Ultrasound …