Transmural healing in Crohn ’s disease: Beyond mural findings – Authors’ reply

We sincerely appreciated the interest and the comments on our paper by Lopes et al. [1,2]. The authors refer about their interesting study including 29 newly diagnosed patients with active Crohn ’s disease (CD), all performing endoscopy and computed tomography enterography (CTE). After one year of follow-up, 6 out of 29 patients (20.7%) achieved the transmural healing (TH). Particularly, the authors put their attention on a new, interesting but unexplored, endpoint: the “extramural heal ing”, defined as the radiological remission of all signs of inflammation beyond mural findings (e.g.

Source: Digestive and Liver Disease - October 11, 2017 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Fabiana Castiglione, Anna Testa, Nicola Imperatore, Antonio Rispo Tags: Correspondence Source Type: research