Multispectral Optoacoustic Tomography in Crohn ’s Disease: Noninvasive Imaging of Disease Activity

Inflammatory bowel diseases, such as Crohn ’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis, lead to severe complaints including diarrhea, rectal bleeding, abdominal pain, fatigue, or weight loss in affected patients. These symptoms are caused by a chronic relapsing inflammatory process within the intestinal wall. Acute aggravations of Inflammatory bowel disease need frequent adjustments or changes in therapy to reduce symptoms and prevent severe complications. To enable a quick and appropriate change of therapy, reliable and accurate methods are required to provide an objective assessment of disease activity.

Source: Gastroenterology - June 2, 2016 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Maximilian J. Waldner, Ferdinand Knieling, Cornelia Egger, Stefan Morscher, Jing Claussen, Marcel Vetter, Christian Kielisch, Sarah Fischer, Lukas Pfeifer, Alexander Hagel, R üdiger Görtz, Dane Wildner, Raja Atreya, Deike Strobel, Markus F. Neurath Tags: Gastroenterology in Motion Source Type: research