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    Accuracy of optical diagnosis with narrow band imaging in the surveillance of ulcerative colitis: a prospective study comparing Kudo, Kudo-IBD and NICE classifications

    The diagnostic accuracy of Narrow Band Imaging (NBI) in the endoscopic surveillance of ulcerative colitis (UC) has been disappointing in most trials which used the Kudo classification. We aim to compare the pe...

    Andrea Cassinotti, Piergiorgio Duca in International Journal of Colorectal Disease (2024)

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    Crohn’s Disease

    Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), which include Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), are chronic inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract [1]. IBD cause significant gastrointestinal sympt...

    Andrea Cassinotti in Imaging of Perianal Inflammatory Diseases (2013)

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    Use of double-balloon enteroscopy in the management of patients with Crohn’s disease: feasibility and diagnostic yield in a high-volume centre for inflammatory bowel disease

    Double-balloon enteroscopy (DBE) is theoretically useful in Crohn’s disease (CD) since it is potentially able to investigate the whole small intestine, but sparse data are available.

    Gianpiero Manes, Venerina Imbesi, Sandro Ardizzone, Andrea Cassinotti in Surgical Endoscopy (2009)

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    New onset of atrial fibrillation after introduction of azathioprine in ulcerative colitis: case report and review of the literature

    We present the case of a 52-year-old man with steroid-dependent ulcerative colitis, needing immunosuppressive therapy with azathioprine. The drug had been started 3 years earlier, but stopped after a few mont...

    Andrea Cassinotti, Alessandro Massari in European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology (2007)