Skip to main content

ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Gastroenterol.
Sec. Therapy in Gastroenterology
Volume 3 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fgstr.2024.1468394
This article is part of the Research Topic Inflammatory Bowel Disease - A State-of-the-Art and Future Aspects from a Systems Biology Perspective View all 4 articles

A new Simple Endoscopic Score for Ulcerative Colitisthe SES-UC

Provisionally accepted
Viktoria Bergqvist Viktoria Bergqvist 1,2Peter Gedeon Peter Gedeon 2Erik Hertervig Erik Hertervig 1,2Jan Marsal Jan Marsal 1,2*
  • 1 Lund University, Lund, Skane County, Sweden
  • 2 Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.

    which displayed similar levels of reliability and accuracy as the established indices. Finally, comparison of sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy showed that up to 38% of patients had their most inflamed segment located proximally to the sigmoid colon.We propose a new simplified endoscopic index for ulcerative colitis, the SES-UC, which is based on the two descriptors vascular pattern and ulcers. The performance of the SES-UC was similar to, and in some regards better than, that of the established indices (MES, UCEIS, and UCCIS). This together with its simplicity makes SES-UC a candidate index for use in clinical practice as well as in clinical studies.

    Keywords: disease activity, Disease extent, disease monitoring, Endoscopic Score, ulcerative colitis CRP, C-reactive protein, Hb, hemoglobin, HR-QoL, health-related quality-oflife, IBD, inflammatory bowel disease

    Received: 22 Jul 2024; Accepted: 08 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Bergqvist, Gedeon, Hertervig and Marsal. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Jan Marsal, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden

    Disclaimer: All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.