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Assessing inflammation and predicting relapse in ulcerative colitis is more accurate when performed by IBD specialized gastroenterologists
Door Alizadeh M, George LA, Abutaleb A en 13 anderen.
Inhoud in het Engels
Abstract
Background
Ulcerative colitis is monitored through clinical, laboratory, endoscopic, and histologic measures. Persistence of histologic inflammation despite clinical and endoscopic remission is associated with disease flare.
Methods
We compared the identification of clinically significant histologic inflammation by general and IBD-specialized gastroenterologists (GI) using a simplified binary scoring system and looked at associations with disease relapse.