Endoscopic Needle Knife Stricturotomy (NKSt) vs balloon dilation for Crohn’s disease stricture treatment in distal ileum…any advice??

Posted by Michael Jannicelli | Jan 29, 2025 | Uncategorized | 0 |

Later this month I am supposed to have a balloon dilation in order to treat a stricture in my distal ileum, with steroid injections in order to try to avoid surgery.

However doing some research online I discovered that the balloon dilation results usually do not last very long…..I came across with this other procedure by the rather long name of Endoscopic Needle Knife Stricturotomy (NKSt)….

It seems that the results last much longer than the balloon dilation but it seems it is not done…

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