Transabdominal ultrasound of the intestine: new possibilities in the practice of a gastroenterologist
Ultrasonic diagnosis of the intestine is an intensively developing technique. The most popular method of ultrasound examination of the small intestine in foreign studies is the technique of small intestinal contrast ultrasonography, when the patient on an empty stomach independently takes 250-500 ml of a solution of polyethylene glycol. Contrasting the colon by filling it is usually done in two ways. One option is ultrasonic irrigoscopy, the second variant of contrasting the colon is to take the liquid insid. In accordance with international recommendations, when using modern ultrasound diagnostic equipment, the thickness of the intestinal wall (other than the duodenal and rectum bulb) of less than 2 mm can be considered normal with the usual filling of the examined intestine. The ultrasound method provides high accuracy of the dynamics of inflammatory diseases during treatment, and can also be used to participate in the study.