Aparato Digestivo, Hospital 12 de Octubre de Madrid, España.
Rev Esp Enferm Dig. 2021 Apr;113(4):286-291. doi: 10.17235/reed.2020.7499/2020.
Intestinal ultrasound is a non-invasive, inexpensive, accessible imaging technique that is appropriate for the study of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). It provides an assessment of inflammatory activity and complications with a diagnostic accuracy similar to that of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT). Furthermore, it has proven to be of great value for the follow-up and monitoring of these patients. The addition of contrast enhancement has improved the diagnostic ability of intestinal ultrasound in the assessment of both inflammatory activity and complications. The development of dynamic studies able to quantify contrast arrival and determine a number of parameters in time-intensity curves (TICs) has increased the capability of intestinal ultrasound to identify inflammation and predict response to biologic therapy.
肠超声是一种非侵入性、廉价、易于获得的成像技术，适用于炎症性肠病（IBD）患者的研究。它提供了对炎症活动和并发症的评估，其诊断准确性与磁共振成像（MRI）和计算机断层扫描（CT）相似。此外，它已被证明对这些患者的随访和监测具有重要价值。对比增强的应用提高了肠超声在评估炎症活动和并发症方面的诊断能力。能够定量评估对比剂到达时间并确定时间-强度曲线（TIC）中多个参数的动态研究的发展，提高了肠超声识别炎症和预测对生物治疗反应的能力。
