Non-invasive diagnosis of ulcerative colitis

Abstract

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a kind of chronic and recurrent abnormal immune-mediated intestinal inflammatory enteropathy by various causes. At present, the diagnosis of the disease mainly depends on the clinical manifestations, colonoscopy and biopsy. This diagnosis method is traumatic, time-consuming, expensive, which is difficult to be popularized. The latest research has found that biochemical markers, tomography and gene marker detection have certain diagnostic value for UC, and non-invasive. Now, the non-invasive diagnostic methods of UC are summarized as follows. Key words: Colitis, ulcerative; Biochemical markers; Tomography; Genetic markers; Diagnosis