Does daily fecal volume predict the clinical outcome of the acute flare of extensive ulcerative colitis in terms of need for acute colectomy? [2]

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 418-419

  Eriksson, Anders ^a   Heimtun, Erling ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CORTICOSTEROID; HAPTOGLOBIN; OROSOMUCOID; STOMACH SECRETION INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON DILATATION; COLON RESECTION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROCTOCOLECTOMY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT INDICATION; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COLECTOMY; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 17444420823     PISSN: 10780998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.MIB.0000164025.18471.66     Document Type: Letter

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