Kamel S, Sakr M, Hamed W, Eltabbakh M, Askar S, Bassuny A, Hussein R, Elbaz A. Comparative study between bowel ultrasound and magnetic resonance enterography among Egyptian inflammatory bowel disease patients. World J Gastroenterol 2020; 26(38): 5884-5895 [PMID: 33132642 DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v26.i38.5884]
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Ahmed Elbaz, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Tropical Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Ain Shams University, Abbasia, Cairo 11566, Egypt. ahmedelbaz75@gmail.com
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Gastroenterology & Hepatology
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Observational Study
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World J Gastroenterol. Oct 14, 2020; 26(38): 5884-5895 Published online Oct 14, 2020. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v26.i38.5884
Comparative study between bowel ultrasound and magnetic resonance enterography among Egyptian inflammatory bowel disease patients
Shimaa Kamel, Mohamed Sakr, Waleed Hamed, Mohamed Eltabbakh, Safaa Askar, Ahmed Bassuny, Rasha Hussein, Ahmed Elbaz
Shimaa Kamel, Mohamed Sakr, Waleed Hamed, Mohamed Eltabbakh, Safaa Askar, Ahmed Bassuny, Ahmed Elbaz, Department of Tropical Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11566, Egypt
Rasha Hussein, Department of Radiology, Ain Shams University and MR Unit of Misr Radiology Center, Cairo 11566, Egypt
Author contributions: Kamel S completed study design, bowel ultrasound examination, data collection and data analysis; Sakr M, Hamed W, Eltabbakh M and Askar S reviewed the manuscript for important scientific content; Bassuny A finished data collection; Hussein R reviewed the magnetic resonance imaging scans as an expert radiologist with high experience in inflammatory bowel disease, reviewed and edited radiological part of the manuscript; ElBaz A completed literature search, data analysis and writing the manuscript; all authors have read and approved final manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Ain Shams University, Faculty of Medicine, Research Ethics Committee Institutional Review Board, No. FWA000017585.
Informed consent statement: All study participants, or their legal guardian, provided informed written consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: None to declare.
Data sharing statement: Technical appendix, statistical code, and dataset available from the corresponding author at ahmedelbaz75@gmail.com. Participants gave informed consent for data. No additional data are available.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement-checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement-checklist of items.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Ahmed Elbaz, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Tropical Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Ain Shams University, Abbasia, Cairo 11566, Egypt. ahmedelbaz75@gmail.com
Received: May 28, 2020 Peer-review started: May 28, 2020 First decision: July 29, 2020 Revised: August 11, 2020 Article in press: September 11, 2020 Published online: October 14, 2020 Processing time: 139 Days and 3.2 Hours
ARTICLE HIGHLIGHTS
Research background
Bowel ultrasound is a new tool for evaluation of inflammatory bowel.
Research motivation
Up until now, no previous published comparative studies between bowel ultrasound and magnetic resonance enterography (MRE) for Egyptian inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients.
Research objectives
Compare between the role of bowel ultrasound and MRE in Egyptian IBD patients.
Research methods
The study was conducted on 40 patients presented to IBD center of Ainshams University Hospitals. The patients were subjected to clinical, laboratory, colonoscopic and radiological assessments including bowel ultrasound and MRE.
Research results
Bowel ultrasound was a good predictor of disease activity, fistula, stricture, and abscess formation with high sensitivity in ileum and more specificity in large bowel.
Research conclusions
Bowel ultrasound is a useful bedside cheap imaging tool that can be used for diagnosis and follow-up of IBD patients.
Research perspectives
Further studies to compare clinical decisions with and without bowel ultrasound.
