Multispectral optoacoustic tomography enables assessment of disease activity in paediatric inflammatory bowel disease

Regensburger A, Eckstein M, Wetzl M, Raming R, Paulus LP, Bühler A, Nedoschill E, Danko V, Jüngert J, Wagner A, Schnell A, Rückel A, Rother U, Rompel O, Uder M, Hartmann A, Neurath M, Wölfle J, Waldner M, Hörning A, Knieling F (2024)


Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2024

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Book Volume: 35

Article Number: 100578

DOI: 10.1016/j.pacs.2023.100578

Abstract

Multispectral optoacoustic tomography (MSOT) allows non-invasive molecular disease activity assessment in adults with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). In this prospective pilot-study, we investigated, whether increased levels of MSOT haemoglobin parameters corresponded to inflammatory activity in paediatric IBD patients, too. 23 children with suspected IBD underwent MSOT of the terminal ileum and sigmoid colon with standard validation (e.g. endoscopy). In Crohn‘s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) patients with endoscopically confirmed disease activity, MSOT total haemoglobin (HbT) signals were increased in the terminal ileum of CD (72.1 ± 13.0 a.u. vs. 32.9 ± 15.4 a.u., p = 0.0049) and in the sigmoid colon of UC patients (62.9 ± 13.8 a.u. vs. 35.1 ± 16.3 a.u., p = 0.0311) as compared to controls, respectively. Furthermore, MSOT haemoglobin parameters correlated well with standard disease activity assessment (e.g. SES-CD and MSOT HbT (rs =0.69, p = 0.0075). Summarizing, MSOT is a novel technology for non-invasive molecular disease activity assessment in paediatric patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

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APA:

Regensburger, A., Eckstein, M., Wetzl, M., Raming, R., Paulus, L.-P., Bühler, A.,... Knieling, F. (2024). Multispectral optoacoustic tomography enables assessment of disease activity in paediatric inflammatory bowel disease. Photoacoustics, 35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pacs.2023.100578

MLA:

Regensburger, Adrian, et al. "Multispectral optoacoustic tomography enables assessment of disease activity in paediatric inflammatory bowel disease." Photoacoustics 35 (2024).

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