Rodrigues-Pinto, Eduardo Morais, Rui Sousa-Pinto, Bernardo Ferreira da Silva, Joel Costa-Moreira, Pedro Santos, Ana L. Silva, Marco Coelho, Rosa Gaspar, Rui Peixoto, Armando
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Digestive Diseases
Introduction: Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is a technically demanding procedure with a high risk for adverse events (AEs). Aim: evaluate patient- and procedure-related risk factors for ERCP-related AEs and develop an online app to estimate risk of AEs. Methods: retrospective study of 1,491 consecutive patients who underwent...
Mateos, Beatriz Sáez-González, Esteban Moret, Inés Hervás, David Iborra, Marisa Cerrillo, Elena Tortosa, Luis Nos, Pilar Beltrán, Belén
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Digestive Diseases
Background: Cytokines emerge as possible biomarkers of response in Crohn’s disease (CD). We aimed to determine the plasmatic cytokine profiles of active CD patients who started infliximab (IFX) treatment and their capacity to predict the response to IFX. Methods: A total of 30 active CD patients receiving an induction therapy of IFX were enrolled i...
Barberio, Brigida Zingone, Fabiana Frazzoni, Leonardo D’Incà, Renata Maccarone, Maria Chiara Ghisa, Matteo Massimi, Davide Lorenzon, Greta Savarino, Edoardo Vincenzo
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Digestive Diseases
Background: Head-to-head comparison studies evaluating the effectiveness and tolerability of anti-tumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF) drugs in inflammatory bowel disease patients are lacking. Aim: To compare the effectiveness and tolerability of anti-TNF-α drugs used in clinical practice in a cohort of patients with moderate-to-severe ulcerative colit...
Hunt, Richard H. East, James E. Lanas, Angel Malfertheiner, Peter Satsangi, Jack Scarpignato, Carmelo Webb, Gwilym J.
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Digestive Diseases
Background: COVID-19 was initially considered a respiratory disease but the SARS-CoV-2 virus can lead to serious systemic consequences affecting major organs including the digestive system. Summary: This review brings new clinically important information for the gastroenterologist. This includes: the mechanisms of tissue damage seen with the SARS-C...
Vyas, Ashish Kumar Singh, Anirudh
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Digestive Diseases
Anastasiou, Olympia E. Lange, Christian M.
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Digestive Diseases
Blanco-Velasco, Gerardo Zamarripa-Mottú, Raúl Antonio Solórzano-Pineda, Omar Michel Mascarenhas-Saraiva, Miguel Blancas-Valencia, Juan Manuel Hernández-Mondragón, Oscar Victor
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Digestive Diseases
Introduction: Capsule endoscopy (CE) is the first-line tool for diagnosis of small bowel bleeding. There are some studies that have compared different types of CE. OMOM CE is one of the newest in the market and has not been compared with other types of CE. The objective of this study was to compare the diagnostic yield of the Pillcam SB3 and OMOM C...
Bornschein, Jan Tran-Nguyen, Terry Fernandez-Esparrach, Gloria Ash, Stephen Balaguer, Francesc Bird-Lieberman, Elisabeth L. Córdova, Henry Dzerve, Zane Fassan, Matteo Leja, Marcis
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Digestive Diseases
Background: Guidelines give robust recommendations on which biopsies should be taken when there is endoscopic suggestion of gastric inflammation. Adherence to these guidelines often seems arbitrary. This study aimed to give an overview on current practice in tertiary referral centres across Europe. Methods: Data were collected at 10 tertiary referr...
Barabás, Loránd Hritz, István István, Gábor Tulassay, Zsolt Herszényi, Lászloó
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Digestive Diseases
Background: We and others have previously shown that matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) play a role in colorectal cancer (CRC) invasion and metastasis. However, the serum changes of various MMPs and their inhibitors (TIMPs) have scarcely been concomitantly investigated in identical blood samples in the normal colon-adenoma-CRC sequence. Methods: The ...
Weber, Sabine Benesic, Andreas Buchholtz, Marie-Luise Rotter, Isabelle Gerbes, Alexander L.
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Digestive Diseases
Introduction: A proportion of patients with drug-induced liver injury (DILI) present with autoantibodies, which has led to the current concept of autoimmune-like DILI. However, no standardized definition exists and the clinical relevance has not been studied in detail yet. Methods: 143 patients with DILI enrolled in a prospective study were analyze...
