Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Fig. 9.1 (a and b) Angiodysplasia in jejunum Fig. 9.2 (a) Ulcer due to ileal Crohn’s disease (CD). (b) Ulceration due to recurrent CD in neo-terminal ileum. (c) Ulcer at…
Celiac Disease and Other Malabsorption States
Fig. 11.1 Normal duodenal villi after (a) air insufflation and (b) water immersion Fig. 11.2 Endoscopic features suggestive of celiac disease. (a) Mucosal fissures, grooves, and scalloping of the duodenal…
Spiral Enteroscopy and “On Demand” Enteroscopy
Fig. 8.1 The anterograde Spirus EndoEase Discovery SB overtube utilized primarily for anterograde deep enteroscopy. The same overtube can be used for retrograde procedures but only with a small bowel…
Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy
Fig. 6.1 (a) Pillcam SB3 (Given Imaging, Yokneam, Israel); (b) Endocapsule (Olympus Medical Systems Corporation, Tokyo, Japan); (c) Mirocam (IntroMedic Co., Ltd., Seoul, Korea); (d) Capsocam SV1 (Capsovision, Saratoga, USA);…
Indications for Imaging the Small Bowel
Vascular Inflammatory Neoplastic Other • Angioectasia • Peptic ulcer disease • Carcinoid • Abnormal imaging study • Arteriovenous malformation • Inflammatory bowel disease • GIST • Symptom evaluation • Dieulafoy…
Ultrasound
Fig. 2.1 Surgical section of small bowel from a patient with Crohn’s disease. The wall (arrows) is significantly thickened especially at the level of muscularis propria. By courtesy of Prof….
Fluoroscopic Techniques for the Interrogation of IBD Patients
Fig. 3.1 A 17-year-old male on Adalimumab and steroids with persistent abdominal pain. Images show serial spot films from a SBFT demonstrating (a) lymphoid hyperplasia (in brackets), (a) aphthous ulcerations…
Magnetic Resonance Enterography
Sequence type Orientation Number of slices Slice thickness (mm) Slice gap (mm) Field of view (mm) TR (ms) TE (ms) Fat saturation Matrix Flip angle (°) Single-shot TSE-T2 (HASTE, SSFSE,…
Diseases That Can Mimic IBD
Fig. 10.1 Segmental colitis in the setting of acute diverticulitis Infectious A number of infectious colitides can present with bloody or non-bloody diarrhea resembling IBD. These may be due to…
Role of Endoscopy in Diagnosis of Crohn’s Disease and Chronic Ulcerative Colitis
Fig. 6.1 (a, b) Duodenal stricture Our current understanding of UGI CD has not been systematically evaluated with regards to the true incidence, prevalence, response to therapy or the natural…
