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Two Worlds, One Life: Narrative Spaces of Identity Between Health and Illness [PDF]
This paper reports a component of a larger study about how adolescents adapt to chronic illness. The condition in question was Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), a medical term for two conditions, ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. Ulcerations appear
Gross, Harriet +2 more
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Risk of Vaccine-Preventable Infections in Swiss Adults with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. [PDF]
BACKGROUND Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have a higher risk of infection and are frequently not up to date with their immunizations. OBJECTIVES This study aims to review vaccination status and evaluate whether age, disease type,
Verolet, Charlotte +44 more
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Clinical presentation of Crohn's disease. Association between familial disease, smoking, disease phenotype, extraintestinal manifestations and need for surgery [PDF]
Background/Aims: Recent molecular data suggest that genetic factors may underlie the disease heterogeneity observed in Crohn's disease (CD). It was also suggested that familial inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a homogenous subgroup, phenotypically ...
Gasztonyi, Beáta +24 more
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Analysis of IL12B gene variants in inflammatory bowel disease [PDF]
IL12B encodes the p40 subunit of IL-12, which is also part of IL-23. Recent genome-wide association studies identified IL12B and IL23R as susceptibility genes for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
Darina Czamara +79 more
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Reactive oxygen species (ROS) play vital roles in intestinal inflammation. Therefore, eliminating ROS in the inflammatory site by antioxidant enzymes such as catalase and superoxide dismutase may effectively curb inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
Jun Zhou +9 more
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Pathophysiology of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Innate Immune System
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), comprising Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), is a heterogeneous state of chronic intestinal inflammation with no exact known cause.
Angela Sáez +4 more
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Candidate genes colocalized to linkage regions in inflammatory bowel disease [PDF]
Background and Aims: The genes encoding for tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and the vitamin D receptor (VDR) are colocalized to inflammatory bowel disease-associated linkage regions on chromosomes 6, 7 and
Folwaczny, Christian +4 more
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Objectives: Restorative proctocolectomy and ileal pouch anal anastomosis (IPAA), with diverting ileostomy, are established ulcerative colitis (UC) treatments.
Ryuichi Kuwahara +7 more
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Smoking in inflammatory bowel diseases: Good, bad or ugly? [PDF]
Smoking is an important environmental factor in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), having different effects in ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD).
Peter Laszlo Lakatos +5 more
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A decade of inflammatory bowel disease: a single center experience in Egypt
Background Inflammatory bowel disease is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the gastrointestinal tract and includes ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. Inflammatory bowel disease has always seemed to be rare in the Middle East and Northern Africa. In
Mostafa Abd Alfattah Shamkh +7 more
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