Usefulness of Endoscopic Indices in Determination of Disease Activity in Patients with Crohn’s Disease
Table 2
Division of clinical, endoscopic, and histological indices into four CD disease activity categories for comparison purposes.
Remission
Mild disease
Moderate disease
Severe disease
Clinical indices
Clinical index (range)
CDAI (0–>400)
<150
150–219
220–400
>400
van Hees Index
<100
100–150
151–210
>210
Harvey and Bradshaw Index
<5
5–7
8–16
>16
Oxford Index
<2
2–4
5–7
8–10
Cape Town Index
1–3
4–10
11–20
21–30
Endoscopic indices
Endoscopic index (range)
CDEIS (0–44)
<3
3–9
10–12
>12
SES-CD (0–60)
0–2
3–6
7–15
>15
Histological indices
Histological index (range)
SSFHDAICD (0–16)
0–4
5–7
8–10
11–16
CDEIS: Crohn’s Disease Endoscopic Index of Severity; SES-CD: Simple Endoscopic Score for Crohn’s Disease; SSFHDAICD: Scoring System for Histological Disease Activity in Crohn’s Disease.
