... of this inflammation and is also important in the assessment of disease activity and monitoring of treatment. Furthermore, mucosal healing is increasingly becoming a therapeutic target for treatment of IBD and the golden standard of assessing it is endoscopy. However, due to the costs, invasiveness, and to limited...

... significant positive correlation with disease activity of IBD. MMP-2 and TIMP-2 levels inversely correlated with CD activity. Significant correlations were found between MMP-9/TIMP-1 and MMP-2/TIMP-2 antigen levels in both UC and CD. Conclusions: We demonstrated that serum antigen concentrations of MMP-9...

... assessment of disease activity with imaging. Moreover, there is no consensus in the literature about a suitable reference standard. 30 9 2010 © 2010 S. Karger AG, Basel 2010 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Copyright: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be translated...

...Holger Neye; Winfried Voderholzer; Steffen Rickes; Jutta Weber; Wolfram Wermke; Herbert Lochs Background/Aim: In recent years, power Doppler sonography has been proposed as a method to assess disease activity in patients with Crohn’s disease. The aim of this prospective study was to evaluate...