Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, New York
In this session, Michael Dolinger will discuss the role of intestinal ultrasoound as an emerging tool for tight control disease monitoring of IBD activity in the United States. This will include understanding the normal bowel wall layers and how transmural inflammation in IBD affects them, the basics of performing point-of-care intestinal ultrasound during routine clinic visits, education and training requirements for gastroenterologists to perform intestinal ultrasound, the accuracy of intestinal ultrasound for monitoring inflammation compared to alternative cross-sectional imaging modalities and colonoscopy, and the latest evidence for intestinal ultrasound to monitor IBD activity.
Learning Objectives:
Understand the role of evaluating transmural inflammation with the use of intestinal ultrasound at the point-of-care in monitoring IBD activity.
Evaluate the accuracy of cross-sectional imaging modalities, including intestinal ultrasound, MRE, and CT scan in comparison to colonoscopy to evaluate bowel wall damage and inflammation in inflammatory bowel disease.
Develop personalized treatment strategies that use intestinal ultrasound to monitor disease activity in unique IBD populations, including pregnancy, and post-surgical evaluation.