Fecal Calprotectin and the Clinical Activity Index Are Both Useful to Monitor Medical Treatment in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 485-491

  Burri, Emanuel ^a   Beglinger, Christoph ^b   von Felten, Stefanie ^b   Lehmann, Frank Serge ^b  

^a Kantonsspital Liestal   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Colonoscopy; Drug therapy; Fecal calprotectin; Signs and symptoms, digestive; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

AMINOSALICYLIC ACID; AZATHIOPRINE; CALGRANULIN; CYCLOSPORIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; INFLIXIMAB; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ACTIVITY INDEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLONOSCOPY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASE ASSESSMENT; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG MONITORING; FECES LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PANCOLITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENCE RISK; RELAPSE; REMISSION; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; CHEMISTRY; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; FECES; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RECURRENT DISEASE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COLONOSCOPY; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENTS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE L1 ANTIGEN COMPLEX; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; REMISSION INDUCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922093883     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: 15732568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-014-3383-0     Document Type: Article

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