Bowel Wall Thickness Cutoff Value for Assessing Inflammatory Bowel Disease Activity Using Intestinal Ultrasonography in Children
Although IUS is an excellent tool for detecting moderate/severe bowel inflammation, this method showed limited accuracy in children <6 years old. The adult BWT cutoff missed over 30% of bowel inflammation in children. BWT cutoff of 0.27-0.30 cm in boys and 0.23-0.25 cm in girls and/or children <40 kg indicated active gut inflammation.
Authors
- Laura Räisänen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4892-5710)
- Michael R. Couper (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1564-279X)
- Ray Lang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3814-1971)
- Peter J. Lewindon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9502-3090)
Institutions
- Children's Medical Research Institute (AU)
- The University of Queensland (AU)
- Women's and Children's Hospital (AU)
- Pirkanmaa Hospital District (FI)
- Queensland Children’s Medical Research Institute (AU)
- Tampere University Hospital (FI)
- Tampere University (FI)
- Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
- Published
- 2025-11-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ibd/izaf298
- Primary Topic
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00