• Hiroyuki Fujimura, Shinichi Hashimoto, Kensaku Shimizu, Hideko Onoda, Masahiro Tanabe, Mayumi Higashi, Ryo Ogawa, Atsushi Goto, Koichi Hamabe, Jun Nishikawa, Katsuyoshi Ito, and Taro Takami.
• Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan.
• Intern. Med. 2022 Jan 1; 61 (20): 299930072999-3007.

AbstractObjective Transmural healing (TH) has been attracting attention as a new therapeutic target for Crohn's disease, but there are few clinical data on TH in Japan. We introduced low-dose computed tomography enterography (CTE) as a monitoring method for Crohn's disease and retrospectively investigated the accuracy of evaluating TH by CTE. Methods Among Crohn's disease patients who underwent low-dose CTE at our hospital from January 2009 to March 2021, 122 patients who underwent colonoscopy or balloon endoscopy within 2 weeks were included. Results of radiological and endoscopic examinations were reviewed independently by radiologists and gastrointestinal endoscopists, respectively. The concordance rate of the diagnosis between CTE and endoscopy was evaluated. Results Twenty-six patients (21.3%) achieved TH, and the kappa index was 0.743. On comparing the TH and non-TH groups, the Crohn's disease activity index (p=0.02), endoscopic healing rate (p<0.001), serum albumin (p=0.043), and serum C-reactive protein level (p=0.018) showed significant differences. Among the 122 patients, 69 (56.5%) showed concordance between the diagnosis of CTE and endoscopy, and 22 (18.0%) achieved both TH and endoscopic healing. Conclusion This study provides real-world data on Crohn's disease evaluated with low-dose CTE in Japan. The TH criterion used in this study has a high kappa coefficient and can be used reproducibly in many institutions.

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