| Category |
Gastroenterology & Hepatology |
| Manuscript Type |
Autobiography |
| Article Title |
Prospective postsurgical capsule endoscopy in patients with Crohn’s disease
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| Manuscript Source |
Invited Manuscript |
| All Author List |
Tomoaki Kono, Nobuyuki Hida, Koji Nogami, Masaki Iimuro, Yoshio Ohda, Yoko Yokoyama, Koji Kamikozuru, Katsuyuki Tozawa, Mikio Kawai, Tomohiro Ogawa, Kazutoshi Hori, Hiroki Ikeuchi, Hiroto Miwa, Shiro Nakamura and Takayuki Matsumoto |
| Funding Agency and Grant Number |
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| Corresponding Author |
Tomoaki Kono, MD, Department of Lower Gastroenterology, Hyogo College of Medicine, 1-1 Mukogawa-cho, Nishinomiya, Hyogo 663-8501, Japan. kono@hyo-med.ac.jp |
| Key Words |
Crohn’s disease; Postoperative recurrence; Capsule endoscopy; Lewis score; Small bowel |
| Core Tip |
The usefulness of capsule endoscopy (CE) in diagnosing recurrent small bowel lesions after surgery for Crohn’s disease (CD) has not yet been sufficiently established. This study revealed that many inflammatory lesions were already present throughout the residual small bowel shortly after surgery for CD, thus indicating an active stage of the disease on the basis of the total Lewis score in 77.8% of the patients. We concluded that the CE findings shortly after surgery can be used as a baseline for comparison against the findings from additional CE sessions over time and that this method can be used to objectively evaluate the postoperative recurrence of small bowel lesions after surgery for CD. |
| Publish Date |
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| Citation |
Kono T, Hida N, Nogami K, Iimuro M, Ohda Y, Yokoyama Y, Kamikozuru K, Tozawa K, Kawai M, Ogawa T, Hori K, Ikeuchi H, Miwa H, Nakamura S, Matsumoto T. Prospective postsurgical capsule endoscopy in patients with Crohn’s disease. World J Gastrointest Endosc 2014; 6(3): 88-98 |
| URL |
http://www.wjgnet.com/1948-5190/full/v6/i3/88.htm |
| DOI |
http://dx.doi.org/10.4253/wjge.v6.i3.88 |
