Is the APEX Score the Pinnacle of Predictive Scoring Systems of Disease Flare in Crohn’s Patients with Documented Mucosal Healing?
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DOI: 10.1007/s10620-021-07154-4
Abstract: Crohn’s disease (CD) is a chronic relapsing immune-mediated disease affecting the gastrointestinal tract. Effective disease management is dependent on regularly assessing patients with CD for disease recurrence, which is defined according to clinical, radiographic, serologic,… read more here.
Keywords: sbce; small bowel; disease; mucosal healing ... See more keywords
Does discontinuation of antithrombotics affect the diagnostic yield of small bowel capsule endoscopy in patients demonstrating obscure gastrointestinal bleeding?
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DOI: 10.3164/jcbn.17-142
Abstract: A large proportion of patients demonstrating obscure gastrointestinal bleeding (OGIB) are antithrombotic users and need to undergo small bowel capsule endoscopy (SBCE). We examined the effect of discontinuation of antithrombotics on the diagnostic yield of… read more here.
Keywords: sbce; sbce findings; discontinuation antithrombotics; diagnostic yield ... See more keywords