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Development of significant disease in a cohort of patients with non-specific enteritis on capsule endoscopy: clinical suspicion and a high base line Lewis score are predictive of Crohn's disease.
(2020)Background: As with isolated ileitis the findings of nonspecific small bowel enteritis (NSE) on capsule endoscopy (CE) poses a clinical challenge. There is lack of available evidence to help clinicians to predict significant ... -
Environmental risk factors associated with ANCA associated vasculitis: A systematic mapping review
(2020)Background: Anti-neutrophil cytoplasm antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) is a rare multi-system autoimmune disease, characterised by a pauci-immune necrotising small-vessel vasculitis, with a relapsing and remitting ... -
Shared changes in angiogenic factors across gastrointestinal vascular conditions: A pilot study
(2020)BACKGROUND Neovascularisation is common to a variety of gastrointestinal (GI) disorders with differing aetiologies and presentations; usually affecting adults above 60 years. Shared angiogenic factors modulated by disease ... -
Troponin status predicts 30-day in-hospital mortality
(2020)Aim: To evaluate the prognostic value of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin (hscTnT) levels in unselected emergency medical admissions. Methods: We report on all hscTnT tests in emergency medical admissions, ... -
IL-1 family members in health and disease
(2019)In 1985, two distinct cDNAs encoding proteins sharing human Interleukin-1 (IL-1) activity were described, thus defining the first two members of the IL-1 family – IL-1α and IL-1β. These potent pro-inflammatory cytokines ...