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Inflammatory bowel disease: clinical aspects and established and evolving therapies.

Daniel C. Baumgart, +1 more
- 12 May 2007 - 
- Vol. 369, Iss: 9573, pp 1641-1657
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The current diagnostic approach, their pathology, natural course, and common complications, the assessment of disease activity, extraintestinal manifestations, and medical and surgical management are discussed, and diagnostic and therapeutic algorithms are provided.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2007-05-12. It has received 1677 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Inflammatory bowel disease & Alicaforsen.

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Inflammatory bowel disease: cause and immunobiology

TL;DR: How environmental factors, infectious microbes, ethnic origin, genetic susceptibility, and a dysregulated immune system can result in mucosal inflammation are discussed.
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Second European Evidence-Based Consensus on the Diagnosis and Management of Ulcerative Colitis Part 1: Definitions and Diagnosis

TL;DR: The aim of the Consensus is to promote a European perspective on the management of ulcerative colitis and its dilemmas to avoid duplication of effort in the future.
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Expanded adipose-derived stem cells for the treatment of complex perianal fistula: a phase II clinical trial.

TL;DR: Administration of expanded ASCs (20 to 60 million cells) in combination with fibrin glue is an effective and safe treatment for complex perianal fistula and appears to achieve higher rates of healing than fibr in glue alone.
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Maintenance infliximab for Crohn's disease: the ACCENT I randomised trial

TL;DR: Patients with Crohn's disease who respond to an initial dose of infliximab are more likely to be in remission at weeks 30 and 54, to discontinue corticosteroids, and to maintain their response for a longer period of time, if inflIXimab treatment is maintained every 8 weeks.
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A short-term study of chimeric monoclonal antibody cA2 to tumor necrosis factor alpha for Crohn's disease. Crohn's Disease cA2 Study Group.

TL;DR: A 12-week multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of cA2 in 108 patients with moderate-to-severe Crohn's disease that was resistant to treatment, finding clinical response, the primary end point, was a reduction of 70 or more points in the score on theCrohn's Disease Activity Index at four weeks.
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