Endoscopy is an essential tool in the management of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). To date, upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy are both required for the diagnosis of IBD; furthermore, endoscopy is essential for the differential diagnosis between ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD), the assessment of disease location and activity, and the follow-up of disease course. The advent of mucosal healing as a new goal for IBD therapy may further increase the role of endoscopy to assess response to therapy. Ileocolonoscopy still keeps its fundamental role in the surveillance for dysplasia/neoplasia.
Esophagogastroduodenoscopy and ileocolonoscopy
Strisciuglio C.;
2018
Abstract
Endoscopy is an essential tool in the management of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). To date, upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy are both required for the diagnosis of IBD; furthermore, endoscopy is essential for the differential diagnosis between ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD), the assessment of disease location and activity, and the follow-up of disease course. The advent of mucosal healing as a new goal for IBD therapy may further increase the role of endoscopy to assess response to therapy. Ileocolonoscopy still keeps its fundamental role in the surveillance for dysplasia/neoplasia.File in questo prodotto:
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