..., patients with autoimmune diseases, such as chronic IBD, often require immunosuppressive therapy, and it is well known that this can increase the risk of severe infections. Inflammatory bowel disease Crohn’s disease Ulcerative colitis SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Booster vaccination © 2024 S...

...Juho Mattila; Johanna Kallio; Eliisa Löyttyniemi; Pirjo Nuutila; Jukka Koffert Introduction: Diagnostics of small bowel Crohn’s disease (CD) can be difficult. Combined positron emission tomography-magnetic resonance enterography (PET-MRE) can be used to evaluate intestinal metabolism, but clinical...

...Rotem Sigall Boneh; Amit Assa; Raffi Lev-Tzion; Manar Matar; Dror Shouval; Chen Shubeli; Tsachi Tsadok Perets; Gabriel Chodick; Raanan Shamir Introduction: Adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MD) was shown to be associated with decreased disease activity in adult patients with Crohn’s disease (CD...

... Maria Huguet; Cristóbal de la Coba Ortiz; Xavier Aldeguer Manté; Antonio Palau Canós; Eugeni Domènech Morral; Pilar Nos; GETECCU Group (Spanish Working Group on Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis) Background: Crohn’s disease (CD) is characterized by the development of complications over the course...

...Ida Normiha Hilmi; Nik Arsyad Nik Muhamad Affendi; Shahreedhan Shahrani; Abdul Malik Thalha; Alex Hwong-Ruey Leow; Xin-Hui Khoo Background: The differentiation between intestinal tuberculosis (ITB) and Crohn’s disease (CD) remains a challenge, particularly in areas where tuberculosis is highly...

... or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. 2022 Inflammatory bowel disease Frailty Impact factors Crohn’s disease Ulcerative...

...Felix Barajas Ordonez; Bohdan Melekh; Pablo Rodríguez-Feria; Oksana Melekh; Maximilian Thormann; Robert Damm; Jazan Omari; Maciej Pech; Alexey Surov Background: High visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and creeping fat (CrF) in Crohn’s disease (CD) have been widely recognized. The VAT to subcutaneous...

.... 2021 Inflammatory bowel disease Crohn’s disease Ulcerative colitis Severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus-2 Vaccination COVID-19 is a viral disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), first described in 2019 [ 1 ]. Currently, more than 3.8...

... after bariatric surgery, specifically focusing on diagnosis rates of Crohn’s disease (CD) in this population. Methods: A retrospective analysis of all VCE procedures was performed between January 2015 and December 2019. All patients who underwent bariatric surgery prior to VCE were included. Indication...

... and dissociative symptoms in a sample of IBD patients compared to healthy controls. A possible relationship with disease activity was also investigated. Methods: A total of 112 IBD patients, 55 Crohn’s disease (CD) and 57 ulcerative colitis (UC), and 114 healthy individuals were evaluated. IBD patients were...

...Beatriz Mateos; Esteban Sáez-González; Inés Moret; David Hervás; Marisa Iborra; Elena Cerrillo; Luis Tortosa; Pilar Nos; Belén Beltrán 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...

...Rui de Sousa Magalhães; Sofia Xavier; Tiago Cúrdia Gonçalves; Francisca Dias de Castro; Bruno Rosa; Maria João Moreira; José Cotter Background: Perianal disease is associated with a disabling course of Crohn’s disease (CD). We aim to study the impact of perianal disease on CD remission rates, after...

...Jose Luis Rueda García; Cristina Suárez-Ferrer; Joaquín Poza Cordón; Eduardo Martín-Arranz; María Sánchez Azofra; Laura García Ramírez; Jesús Noci; María Dolores Martín-Arranz Bakground and Aim: Predictors of the need for surgery in sticturing Crohn’s disease (SCD) are lacking. Bowel ultrasound (US...

...Fabian Grass; Emilie Zhu; Christophe Brunel; Martin Hübner; Alain Schoepfer; Nicolas Demartines; Dieter Hahnloser Background: The objective of this study was to compare functional and surgical outcomes of patients undergoing ileocecal resection for Crohn’s disease (CD) to patients undergoing...

...Stefan Reischl; Jasmin Troger; Moritz Jesinghaus; Atsuko Kasajima; Dirk Felix Wilhelm; Helmut Friess; Philipp-Alexander Neumann Introduction: Crohn’s disease (CD) is characterized by relapsing intestinal inflammation. The anti-inflammatory protein annexin A1 (ANXA1) has been linked to inflammatory...

... and their role in sleep quality are unknown. In this study, we aimed to examine whether and how patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD) differ on sleep quality, sleepiness level, and dream anxiety (DA) level compared to healthy controls (HC), controlling for their depressive and anxious...

... often. Bowel US was performed more frequently for Crohn’s disease. Both groups agreed the main limitation to using bowel US was concern for inter-observer variability and operator-dependent factors; radiologists reported that other modalities are more effective to assess IBD, whereas gastroenterologists...

...Yu Tang; Li Zhao; Na Lei; Pingrun Chen; Yan Zhang Background: Crohn’s disease (CD) is strongly associated with depression, but the mechanisms underlying this relationship are not fully understood. Recently, neuroimmunological studies have demonstrated that proinflammatory monocytes/macrophages play...

.... Inflammatory bowel disease Inflammation Crohn’s disease Ulcerative colitis Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) are chronic diseases characterized by gastrointestinal tract inflammation, with a severe impact on the quality of life of patients. Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) plays...

...Jeanne H.M. de Vries; Milou Dijkhuizen; Petra Tap; Ben J.M. Witteman Background: The inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic lifelong inflammation that may affect the entire gastro-intestinal tract in Crohn’s disease and the colon in ulcerative colitis (UC). Diet plays an important role...