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Pouchitis After Ileal Pouch-Anal Anastomosis: A Pouchitis Disease Activity Index

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The PDAI provides simple, objective, and quantitative criteria for pouch inflammation after IPAA and is more sensitive than prior scoring systems.
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This article is published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.The article was published on 1994-05-01. It has received 674 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Pouchitis & Pouchoscopy.

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Ulcerative colitis practice guidelines in adults: American College Of Gastroenterology, Practice Parameters Committee.

TL;DR: Guidelines for clinical practice are aimed to indicate preferred approaches to medical problems as established by scientifically valid research, and are applicable to all physicians who address the subject regardless of specialty training or interests.
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Oral bacteriotherapy as maintenance treatment in patients with chronic pouchitis: A double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

TL;DR: Oral administration of a probiotic preparation containing 5 x 10 per gram of viable lyophilized bacteria of 4 strains of lactobacilli, 3 strains of bifidobacteria, and 1 strain of Streptococcus salivarius subsp.
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British Society of Gastroenterology consensus guidelines on the management of inflammatory bowel disease in adults

Christopher A. Lamb, +41 more
- 27 Sep 2019 - 
TL;DR: Comprehensive up-to-date guidance is provided regarding indications for, initiation and monitoring of immunosuppressive therapies, nutrition interventions, pre-, peri- and postoperative management, as well as structure and function of the multidisciplinary team and integration between primary and secondary care.
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Prophylaxis of pouchitis onset with probiotic therapy: a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

TL;DR: Treatment with VSL#3 is effective in the prevention of the onset of acute pouchitis and improves quality of life of patients with ileal pouch-anal anastomosis.
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Development of a Crohn's Disease Activity Index: National Cooperative Crohn's Disease Study

TL;DR: In this paper, a multiple regression computer program was utilized to derive an equation for prediction of the physician's over-all ratings from a subset of the predictor variables fulfilling a combination of constraints.
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Coated oral 5-aminosalicylic acid therapy for mildly to moderately active ulcerative colitis. A randomized study.

TL;DR: It is concluded that oral 5-ASA administered in a dosage of 4.8 g per day is effective therapy, at least in the short term, for mildly to moderately active ulcerative colitis.
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Proctocolectomy without ileostomy for ulcerative colitis.

A G Parks, +1 more
- 08 Jul 1978 - 
TL;DR: An operation has been developed that permits total removal of all disease-prone mucosa in ulcerative colitis but avoids the need for a permanent ileostomy and four patients were highly satisfied with the result in improved health and function.
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A meta-analysis of the role of smoking in inflammatory bowel disease.

TL;DR: There is no justification for health care providers to change the Surgeon General's recommendations on smoking or tobacco use for ulcerative colitis patients specifically and a review of the literature, meta-analysis of selected studies, and assessment of causality criterion suggest that not smoking and ulceratives colitis and smoking and Crohn's disease are consistent with a causal relationship.
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Variation between observers in describing mucosal appearances in proctocolitis.

TL;DR: An analysis of the overall visual impression of recto-sigmoid mucosa in proctocolitis found that observer-variation for graded characteristics is high and that for the few discontinuous variables, the presence or absence of blood in the lumen is low.
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