A gastroenterologist has brought new technology he discovered at a German hospital in the United Arab Emirates to Saskatoon after studying how to use the equipment in Italy. The $200,000 machine will ...

Experts agree that intestinal ultrasound is repeatable, well-tolerated, and accurately diagnoses and provides a monitoring strategy for small bowel Crohn's disease strictures. Diverse roundtable panel ...

Findings on intestinal ultrasound (IUS) are useful for predicting remission in recent-onset Crohn’s disease (CD), a prospective, population-based cohort of newly diagnosed patients in Denmark reported ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A point-of-care intestinal ultrasound effectively assessed endoscopic disease severity through bowel wall ...

Joe Bojanowski, 56, has had exactly one colonoscopy – and, not surprisingly, it made him grateful he hasn’t needed more. If he’d been diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) much earlier than ...

For more than a decade, Sharon Rosati-Wilkie needed a yearly colonoscopy to help manage her Crohn’s disease. Now she has something far better – the University of Chicago Medicine’s new, ...

Sabina Ali, MD (front) uses a new intestinal ultrasound (IUS) machine on Dhiya Ravikumar (back) at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Walnut Creek. Photo by Brian Feulner Dhiya Ravikumar would ...

While endoscopy is the gold standard for assessing treatment response and remission in ulcerative colitis (UC), intestinal ultrasound (IUS) has been proposed as a faster, noninvasive, and less costly ...