Treatments for gastrointestinal disorders, such as inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, usually involve patients having to maintain a drug-infused enema in the colon for hours while the medication is absorbed. This can be very difficult for patients with diarrhea and incontinence, so anything that can reduce the duration of the procedure would be very welcome.
Now, new research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) reported in Science Translational Medicine shows that ultrasound could be a way to hasten drug absorption in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.
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