Figure 5.

Abdominal temperature is elevated in patients with active Crohn’s disease. [A] Representative abdominal thermal images of a healthy female, a female with inactive Crohn’s disease [CD] and a female with active CD, matched by age and body mass index. [B] Maximum, minimum and average temperature of intestinal areas were obtained by selecting the area of interest with the rectangle in the FLIR tools program. The average temperature is significantly higher in active CD with respect to healthy controls and is significantly lower in inactive CD with respect to active CD. Bars in graphs represent mean ± SEM. *p = 0.001; **p < 0.0001 vs control; ^$p = 0.001 and ^$$p < 0.0001 as indicated in the figure.