Tests and monitoring tools
CRP articles covering C-reactive protein blood testing, inflammation monitoring, treatment response, and IBD research. Monitoring context emphasizes diagnosis, follow-up, disease activity, treatment response, and care decisions.
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Based on the title and source metadata, this appears to be a clinical study related to Ulcerative colitis, Inflammatory bowel disease, and CRP. The original article is from Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics.
Blood biomarkers that predict vedolizumab response could help patients and clinicians choose the most effective therapy sooner and avoid ineffective treatments. The study suggests LRG and MCP‑1 may differentiate...
Capsule endoscopy can safely help diagnose small-bowel disease in very young children, including cases of suspected IBD, and may be particularly helpful when blood tests or imaging suggest inflammation or low albumin....
People receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors who develop colitis may face different risks of needing stronger immunosuppression depending on the ICI drug class. Understanding which features predict escalation could...
Noninvasive blood indices are appealing because they’re easier than colonoscopy. This study tests whether two such indices (SII and HALP) reliably reflect endoscopic activity in ulcerative colitis and whether...
The study will test whether routine point‑of‑care intestinal ultrasound changes clinical decisions compared with standard monitoring, which could make monitoring less invasive and more responsive if effective.
This real-world multicentre study evaluates risankizumab effectiveness and short-term persistence in adults with Crohn's disease, including those previously treated with ustekinumab — information that can help patients...
Standardized intestinal ultrasound scoring could help non-invasively monitor Crohn’s disease activity and reduce reliance on colonoscopy for some assessments. A high-sensitivity IUS score may be useful to rule out...
Many women with UC use hormonal contraception and worry it might worsen disease activity. This study provides evidence that HCT was not linked to more recurrent flares or higher cumulative inflammatory burden in the...
This paper evaluates CAR, a simple blood‑based biomarker, in children with IBD and finds it reflects disease severity and changes over time in pediatric Crohn’s disease. That matters because reliable, easy-to-measure...
People on biologic therapy who lose response often face choices: switch drugs or increase dose. This study shows that escalating doses of infliximab, adalimumab, or vedolizumab frequently led to clinical improvement and...
Validated, language‑adapted questionnaires let clinicians and researchers measure disease control and quality of life reliably. A Persian IBDcQ-8 helps include Persian‑speaking patients in clinical care and research and...
Fatigue is common and disabling for people with IBD; this study shows that factors beyond intestinal inflammation—especially central sensitization and psychological symptoms—explain much of fatigue. That means treating...
1) People with IBD are known to have higher cardiovascular risk; this study directly assessed subclinical carotid atherosclerosis to see if plaque burden explains that risk.
VTE is a serious, potentially preventable complication in children with newly diagnosed IBD. Identifying risk factors could help clinicians consider which pediatric patients might need closer monitoring or future...
The study tests whether a simple blood-derived index (CRP×NLR) can help identify moderate-to-severe endoscopic inflammation when timely endoscopy is limited in hospitalized UC patients.
The T&W criteria are still used to define severe UC on admission, but relying on them alone may delay recognition of steroid non‑response and escalation decisions. Integrating biomarkers, endoscopy, and imaging can help...
If validated, blood microRNAs could become noninvasive biomarkers to help track inflammation and predict biochemical response to infliximab or vedolizumab in Crohn’s disease, complementing CRP and fecal calprotectin.
The study suggests most adults with chronic diarrhea in this tertiary setting had organic/inflammatory disease and identifies accessible clinical and lab predictors that could help prioritize endoscopic evaluation.
Researchers and clinicians are increasingly studying combinations of IBD drugs because single‑drug remission rates have plateaued; dual therapy may improve outcomes for patients who have failed prior treatments.
Real‑world studies of ustekinumab help patients and clinicians understand how the drug performs outside clinical trials, including effectiveness for steroid‑free remission and use across different UK care settings.
Diet-based therapies like CDED + PEN may help control Crohn’s symptoms and improve nutrition without adding medications. This study suggests some adults can maintain remission and gain nutritional benefits over a year...
The criteria were tested specifically in patients with psoriasis, uveitis, or IBD presenting with chronic back pain—groups at higher risk of axSpA—so results inform how well the new criteria perform in these real‑world...
The study provides real-world effectiveness and safety data for risankizumab in a largely difficult-to-treat Crohn's population, showing about half achieved corticosteroid-free clinical remission at 24 weeks —...
Combination (dual) therapy is an active area of research because many people with Crohn’s disease don’t achieve lasting remission on a single advanced therapy. New trials suggest some combinations may improve remission...
The study tests whether adding MRI-based transmural assessment to a fecal-calprotectin–guided (CALM) strategy improves the ability to keep people with Crohn’s disease in corticosteroid-free clinical remission and may...
Blood-based inflammatory ratios like CRP/albumin were associated with higher odds of needing anti‑TNF therapy, colectomy, and longer hospital stays in moderate–severe UC, suggesting potential utility as complementary...
The study suggests nickel accumulation and iron deficiency may be linked with more severe IBD. If confirmed, blood metal and micronutrient levels could help researchers understand disease mechanisms and guide nutritional...
The 1955 Truelove and Witts criteria do not account for patients already on modern outpatient therapies. Updated consensus criteria could change how ASUC is recognized and triaged in current clinical practice.
Guidelines recommend treating objective inflammation even when symptoms are mild because untreated disease can cause complications; the article describes escalation to risankizumab due to endoscopic inflammation, high...
An externally validated, simple prediction score could help identify patients unlikely to need early aggressive treatment and inform shared decision-making about monitoring and therapy.
For patients and clinicians facing steroid- and infliximab-refractory acute severe ulcerative colitis, upadacitinib may be a third-line medical option that can produce rapid symptom and CRP improvement and allow some...
Blood markers that correlate with endoscopic healing could help track inflammation noninvasively and may reduce the frequency of endoscopy if validated. For people with IBD, better blood-based tools could make monitoring...
Based on the title and source metadata, this appears to be a clinical study related to Ulcerative colitis, Inflammatory bowel disease, and CRP. The original article is from Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics.
People hospitalized with ulcerative colitis who don’t meet classic severe-disease criteria can still face meaningful colectomy risk. Using a lower CRP cutoff might help clinicians identify more high-risk patients...
Lowering the CRP cutoff could help hospitals identify hospitalized UC patients at higher risk of needing surgery who are currently classified as less severe. That may affect monitoring and treatment decisions during...
Proactive TDM of infliximab was associated with high 1‑ and 2‑year durability in this pediatric Crohn's cohort, and the study flags clinical factors that may predict need to switch biologics. This could be relevant when...
Markers of systemic inflammation (CRP and ESR) were consistently higher in people with obesity across Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, psoriasis, and psoriatic arthritis, suggesting body weight may influence...
Patients and clinicians choosing first‑line biologic therapy for ulcerative colitis may find evidence here that vedolizumab can provide sustained clinical benefit and a favorable safety profile in a biologic‑naïve...
Bowel urgency is a common, disruptive UC symptom; this trial analysis shows urgency improvements with etrasimod track with clinical remission, endoscopic improvement, better quality of life, and lower inflammatory...
Many patients and clinicians are interested in subcutaneous infliximab because it can be more convenient than IV infusions and may change drug exposure.
People with IBD and their clinicians want ways to predict which advanced therapy will work best. This review summarizes current evidence and shows that, despite many studies, no biomarker is reliably ready for routine...
Algorithms guide how UC is diagnosed and monitored (endoscopy, labs, fecal markers, imaging) and when to escalate to surgery or other interventions; that affects surveillance, treatment choices, and complication...
Noninvasive blood biomarkers that track IBD activity could reduce reliance on repeat endoscopy. If validated, serum galectin‑3 might complement fecal calprotectin and CRP to help identify active disease.
This study suggests that higher intake of specific fibers (beta‑glucan and inulin) may be linked to lower Crohn’s risk in people with a family history, and it connects those fibers to biomarkers of inflammation, barrier...
Vitamin D supplementation is commonly considered in people with IBD because deficiency is frequent and low vitamin D may relate to inflammation.
The study suggests upadacitinib may improve both symptoms and MRI‑documented healing of perianal fistulas in Crohn’s disease, offering a potential treatment option especially for patients who have not previously received...
This study reports real-world data on mirikizumab in adults with ulcerative colitis, focusing on clinical and endoscopic remission and inflammatory markers — outcomes patients and clinicians use to judge treatment...
