Malaty, Hoda M Lo, Grace Hsiao-Wei Hou, Jason K
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Clinical and experimental gastroenterology
Spondyloarthritis among patients with IBD is usually diagnosed after the initial diagnosis of IBD. No difference in the prevalence of AS or peripheral arthritis was observed by IBD type, age, or race. Recognition and understanding of these results will have important implications for the management of IBD patients with spondyloarthritis.
Sirpal, Sanjeev Chandok, Natasha
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Clinical and experimental gastroenterology
Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a chronic immune-mediated disease affecting intra- and extrahepatic bile ducts, primarily the large biliary ducts. Clinical manifestations are broad, and the spectrum encompasses asymptomatic cholestasis, icteric cholangitis with pruritis, cirrhosis, and cholangiocarcinoma. Though rare, PSC has a propensity t...
Haque, Seraj Zohurul Haque, Mainul
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Clinical and experimental gastroenterology
The human gastrointestinal tract is inhabited by a vast population of bacteria, numbering ~100 trillion. These microorganisms have been shown to play a significant role in digestion, metabolism, and the immune system. The aim of this study was to review and discuss how the human body interacts with its gut microbiome and in turn the effects that th...
Baniya, Ramkaji Upadhaya, Sunil Khan, Jahangir Subedi, Suresh Kumar Shaik Mohammed, Tabrez Ganatra, Balvant K Bachuwa, Ghassan
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Clinical and experimental gastroenterology
PD was as effective as LEM in relieving symptoms of achalasia in the long-term.
Matsumoto, Satohiro Kawamura, Haruna Nishikawa, Takeshi Sagihara, Noriyoshi Miyatani, Hiroyuki Mashima, Hirosato
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Clinical and experimental gastroenterology
Rapid induction therapy with TAC tended to be selected for active UC patients with endoscopic evidence of severe disease, and the present study supported the validity of this therapeutic approach. However, transition to the remission-maintenance phase was more favorable in the anti-TNF group.
Kawasato, Ryo Hashimoto, Shinichi Shirasawa, Tomohiro Goto, Atsushi Okamoto, Takeshi Nishikawa, Jun Sakaida, Isao
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Clinical and experimental gastroenterology
It may be useful to select CS cases for physicians considering sex, age, BMI, hypertension, and bowel preparation.
Campbell, James P Vaughn, Byron P
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Clinical and experimental gastroenterology
Despite improvements in medical therapies for Crohn's disease (CD), up to 70% of patients require surgery within 10 years of diagnosis. Surgery is not curative, and almost all patients will experience endoscopic recurrence, and many will go on to clinical recurrence. Identifying patients at high-risk of endoscopic recurrence and standardizing posto...
Franklin, Howard Barrett, Andrew C Wolf, Ray
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Clinical and experimental gastroenterology
Although all subgroups analyzed showed evidence of quantitative and qualitative benefit from NASHA/Dx therapy, patients with characteristics indicative of mild-to-moderate FI may exhibit the greatest benefit.
Sarrazin, Christoph Castelli, Francesco Andreone, Pietro Buti, Maria Colombo, Massimo Pol, Stanislas Calinas, Filipe Puoti, Massimo Olveira, Antonio Shiffman, Mitchell
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Clinical and experimental gastroenterology
The interferon-free combination of once-daily faldaprevir 120 mg, twice-daily deleobuvir 600 mg, and weight-based ribavirin was evaluated in two Phase III studies (HCVerso1, HCVerso2) in hepatitis C virus genotype-1b-infected, treatment-naïve patients, including those ineligible for peginterferon (HCVerso2). Patients without cirrhosis were randomiz...
Manuc, Teodora-Ecaterina M Manuc, Mircea M Diculescu, Mircea M
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Clinical and experimental gastroenterology
Chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) are a subject of great interest in gastroenterology, due to a pathological mechanism that is difficult to explain and an optimal therapeutic approach still undiscovered. Crohn's disease (CD) is one of the main entities in IBD, characterized by clinical polymorphism and great variability in the treatment re...
