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    Intravenous tacrolimus is a superior induction therapy for acute severe ulcerative colitis compared to oral tacrolimus

    Intravenous corticosteroid is the mainstay for managing acute severe ulcerative colitis, but one-third of patients do not respond to intravenous corticosteroid. Tacrolimus, a salvage therapy before colectomy, ...

    Hiromichi Shimizu, Toshimitsu Fujii, Kenji Kinoshita, Ami Kawamoto in BMC Gastroenterology (2021)

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    Usefulness of transabdominal ultrasonography for assessing ulcerative colitis: a prospective, multicenter study

    Transabdominal ultrasonography (US) has been reported to be a useful tool for evaluating ulcerative colitis (UC) although with less well-established data than for Crohn’s disease. This prospective multicenter ...

    Kenji Kinoshita, Takehiko Katsurada, Mutsumi Nishida in Journal of Gastroenterology (2019)