Open AccessDegree of Creeping Fat Assessed by Computed Tomography Enterography is Associated with Intestinal Fibrotic Stricture in Patients with Crohn’s Disease: A Potentially Novel Mesenteric Creeping Fat Index
Author(s) -
Xuehua Li,
ShiTing Feng,
Qinghua Cao,
J. Calvin Coffey,
Mark E. Baker,
Li Huang,
Zhuangnian Fang,
Yun Qiu,
Baolan Lu,
Zhihui Chen,
Yang Li,
Dominik Bettenworth,
Marietta Iacucci,
Canhui Sun,
Subrata Ghosh,
Florian Rieder,
Minhu Chen,
Ziping Li,
Ren Mao
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of crohn's and colitis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1876-4479
pISSN - 1873-9946
DOI - 10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjab005
Subject(s) - medicine , prospective cohort study , retrospective cohort study , receiver operating characteristic , cohort , gastroenterology , radiology
Emerging evidence points to a link between creeping fat and the pathogenesis of Crohn's disease [CD]. Non-invasive assessment of the severity of creeping fat on cross-sectional imaging modality has seldom been investigated. This study aimed to develop and characterize a novel mesenteric creeping fat index [MCFI] based on computed tomography [CT] in CD patients.