Newly developed PET radiotracer facilitates early, noninvasive detection of IBD
USA: A recent study published in The Journal of Nuclear Medicine has shown the utility of a newly developed PET radiotracer as an imaging biomarker of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Targeting the IBD biomarker IL12/23p40, the PET imaging tool offers a minimally invasive approach to identifying disease and guiding treatment.
"A newly developed PET radiotracer can be used to create an inflammation map of the entire gastrointestinal tract, providing detailed information to accurately detect and stage inflammatory bowel disease," the researchers wrote.
IBD is an inflammatory disorder of the gastrointestinal tract that affects nearly seven million people worldwide. The most common forms of IBD are Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Detecting and tracking chronic inflammation in the gastrointestinal tract is critical to improving outcomes among patients.
Current diagnostic and surveillance methods for IBD involve some combination of tracking clinical manifestations (e.g., bloody diarrhea) plus physical examination, endoscopy, and pathological findings. However, none of the available standard-of-care diagnostic tools, whether used alone or in combination, completely meets the need for safe, accessible, reliable, quantitative visualization of gastrointestinal inflammation with high spatial and molecular specificity.
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