WIRELESS CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY TO EVALUATE THE SMALL INTESTINE

这个子项目是许多研究子项目中利用 资源由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供。子项目和 调查员(PI)可能从NIH的另一个来源获得了主要资金， 并因此可以在其他清晰的条目中表示。列出的机构是 该中心不一定是调查人员的机构。 支持这一建议的假设是，被诊断为溃疡性结肠炎(UC)、不明原因结肠炎(IC)和克罗恩结肠炎(CC)的儿童患者可能有小肠受累，这是以前使用末端回肠造影和内窥镜无法发现的。 无线胶囊内窥镜(WCE)将允许更全面地确定肠道受累的程度，可能导致将诊断从UC或IC重新分类为克罗恩病，并可能改变UC、IC和CC患者的治疗决定。

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. The hypothesis underlying this proposal is that pediatric patients with diagnoses of ulcerative colitis (UC), indeterminate colitis (IC) and Crohn colitis (CC) may have small bowel involvement that has not been previously detectable using barium contrast radiography and endoscopy of the terminal ileum. Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) will allow a more complete determination of the extent of intestinal involvement, potentially leading to reclassification of the diagnosis from UC or IC to Crohn disease, and likely altering therapeutic decisions in patients with UC, IC and CC.