While endoscopy is the gold standard for assessing treatment response and remission in ulcerative colitis (UC), intestinal ultrasound (IUS) has been proposed as a faster, noninvasive, and less costly ...

The diagnosis of ulcerative colitis (UC) is based on clinical evaluation and medical history and confirmed through laboratory, radiologic, endoscopic and histologic findings. Before making the ...

Infectious colitis is an inflammatory condition caused by bacteria, a virus, or a parasite. It can cause diarrhea and other symptoms. Treatment will depend on the cause. Infectious colitis causes ...

The oral cavity may be involved (ie, with ulcers), but the esophagus and pharynx are rarely involved. The antrum and duodenum are the most common sites involved in the upper gastrointestinal tract.

Prompted by retrospective studies suggesting that upper gastrointestinal (UGI) endoscopy may have a role in the diagnosis of pediatric IBD, Castellaneta et al. have carried out the first prospective ...

Docbot’s artificial intelligence platform can be trained to predict levels of ulcerative colitis severity after reviewing full-length endoscopy videos, AiThority reported Nov. 6. Researchers studied ...

The disease is characterized by relapsing and remitting episodes of mucosal inflammation that cause symptoms of diarrhea, bleeding, urgency, and pain on the left side of the abdomen. The most common ...

According to a new statement from a panel of national and international experts in gastroenterology, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and other areas, interventional (or therapeutic) IBD endoscopy has ...