Magnetic Resonance Enterography in 300 Known Cases of Crohn’s Disease: An Initial Report from a Referral Center in Iran
| Autor: | Leila Aghaghazvini, Reza Malekzadeh, Payam Mohammadinejad, Neda Pak, Sepehr Haghighi, Amir Pejman Hashemi Taheri, Rana Eftekhar Vaghefi, Amir Reza Radmard, Sara Naybandi Atashi |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Crohn's disease Hepatology business.industry Gastroenterology Magnetic Resonance Enterography Disease Iran medicine.disease Magnetic resonance enterography 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging Surgery 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Internal medicine Diagnosis Medicine Referral center 030211 gastroenterology & hepatology Original Article business Clinical phenotype Case series Crohn’s Disease |
| Zdroj: | Middle East Journal of Digestive Diseases |
| ISSN: | 2008-5249 2008-5230 |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND Magnetic resonance enterography (MRE) has become the modality of choice in assessment of patients with Crohn’s disease (CD). We aimed to present our experience on 300 patients with CD who underwent MRE during the first 30 months after setting up MRE for the first time in a referral center in Iran. METHODS Patients with a definite diagnosis of CD based on either ileocolonoscopy or histopathological studies were included in the final report and categorized into four phenotypes of inactive, active, stricturing, and penetrating disease. RESULTS This was a case series study on 300 patients with known CD out of 594 referred subjects. The most prevalent phenotype was inactive observed in 162 (54.0%) patients followed by stricturing in 44 (14.7%), active in 40 (13.3%), penetrating in 27(9%), and active on chronic in 27 (9%) cases. The number of referred patients increased from 51 cases in the first 6 months to 165 in the last 6 months. CONCLUSION This study presents the first report on the application of MRE in Iran as superb modality for management of CD. The growing number of referred patients indicates that MRE has been successful in addressing the most critical concerns of clinicians on determining the dominant disease phenotype. |
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