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Recommendations for the detection of latent tuberculosis infection in patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases candidates for anti-TNF therapy may not be applicable in all settings
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Open AccessReal-life experience with 4 years of golimumab persistence in ulcerative colitis patients
Golimumab has demonstrated its long-term efficacy and safety in ulcerative colitis in clinical trials, but no data of long-term persistence has been published from real world. To estimate long-term persistence...
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Correlation Between Anti-TNF Serum Levels and Endoscopic Inflammation in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients
(a) To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of anti-TNF trough levels to predict mucosal healing in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD); (b) to determine the best cut-off point to predict mucosal healing in IBD patie...
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Adalimumab for Induction of Histological Remission in Moderately to Severely Active Ulcerative Colitis
Histological remission represents a target distinct from endoscopic healing in ulcerative colitis (UC) and seems a better predictor of clinical outcomes.
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Adalimumab Maintenance Treatment in Ulcerative Colitis: Outcomes by Prior Anti-TNF Use and Efficacy of Dose Escalation
The impact of prior anti-TNF use on “real-life” outcomes of adalimumab therapy in ulcerative colitis (UC) is not well known.
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Infliximab Dose Escalation as an Effective Strategy for Managing Secondary Loss of Response in Ulcerative Colitis
The outcomes of infliximab dose escalation in ulcerative colitis (UC) have not been well evaluated.
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Open AccessCD209 in inflammatory bowel disease: a case-control study in the Spanish population
The etiology of Ulcerative Colitis (UC) and Crohn's Disease (CD), considered together as Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD), involves environmental and genetic factors. Although some genes are already known, th...
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Crohn’s Disease
Crohn’s disease is a debilitating and expensive disease that is growing in incidence in both develo** and developed countries. While conventional therapies, such as corticosteroids and immunosuppressants, co...
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Influence of the inducible nitric oxide synthase gene (NOS2A) on inflammatory bowel disease susceptibility
The great amount of nitric oxide (NO) produced by the inducible isoform of NO synthase (iNOS) exerts deleterious effects, and iNOS expression is raised in the colonic mucosa of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)...