title: Assessment of presence and grade of activity in ileal Crohn's disease.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the sensitivity of magnetic resonance enterography (MRE) in the diagnosis of Crohn's disease (CD) activity and correlation between endoscopic and MRE scores in predicting the activity grade.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty-five ileal CD patients with clinical and biochemical evidence of activation underwent ileocolonoscopy and MRE within 7 days of their application. Simplified endoscopic scoring of CD (SES-CD) and MRE scores was done and compared with each other and other parameters of activation (CRP, leukocyte count, platelet count).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The sensitivity of MRE scoring was found to be 92%; however, the statistical correlation with SES-CD was not significant (p=0.83) for the grading of the activity.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  MRE scoring is sensitive enough to use in CD activity evaluation; however, it can not be used alone, and it is rather a complementary technique to endoscopy and is especially valuable for patients with extraluminal disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, İzmir Atatürk Teaching and Research Hospital, İzmir, Turkey. elifsaritas35@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Elif Sarıtaş
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Yüksel
authors.forename: Serkan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ipek
authors.forename: Firdevs
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Topal
authors.forename: Gonca
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Koç
authors.forename: Zehra
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Akpınar
authors.forename: James C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Slaughter
authors.forename: Orhan
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Oyar
authors.forename: Belkıs
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Unsal
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000175:diagnosis*; D018450:Disease Progression; D016099:Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007079:Ileitis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012720:Severity of Illness Index