Study Status: RECRUITING
Recruit Status: RECRUITING
Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
Official Title: Assessment of Intestinal Inflammation by Infrared Thermography in Pediatric Crohn Disease
Brief Summary:
The assessment of digestive inflammation and disease activity in paediatrics Crohn's disease (CD) is currently based on anamnestic, clinical and paraclinical elements such as the paediatric CD activity index (wPCDAI) , faecal calprotectin measuring or digestive endoscopy.
Infrared thermal imaging is based on capturing electromagnetic waves, on a specific Wavelength, emitted by the human body surface and representing local thermic-metabolic activity.
It concern metabolic activity in digestive inflammations.
Infrared imaging is a non-invasive, contactless, stressless technique that assess the variations in skin surface temperature of the patient's entire abdomen or more targeted areas in a single photography.
This technique would be useful for determination of Crohn's disease activity, inflammation's degree and partial mapping of inflammatory lesions.
In a specific room with a patient lying, the investigators will determine the abdominal infrared radiation with a FLIR� thermal camera.
This will be correlated with the measurement of the faecal calprotectin concentration and the composite CD activity index wPCDAI.
All measurements will be performed during the standard follow-up of Crohn disease.
No additional follow will be necessary.