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Tacrolimus Bridging and Combination Therapy Following Infliximab and JAK Inhibitor Failure in Ulcerative Colitis: A Case Series.
JGH open : an open access journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

Tacrolimus Bridging and Combination Therapy Following Infliximab and JAK Inhibitor Failure in Ulcerative Colitis: A Case Series.

Patients with UC who fail both anti-TNF and JAK inhibitor therapies have limited options. This report suggests tacrolimus can be used as a short-term bridge or in combination to reach another maintenance drug, with many...

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Colorectal Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa: Diagnostic Challenges and Systemic Care Constraints.
The American surgeon

Colorectal Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa: Diagnostic Challenges and Systemic Care Constraints.

The review highlights that colorectal IBD is under-recognized and often mistaken for infectious colitis in sub‑Saharan Africa due to limited diagnostic and specialist resources, which can delay appropriate care.

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Pruritus Is Frequent and Persistent and Impacts Quality of Life Among Patients With Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis.
Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics

Pruritus Is Frequent and Persistent and Impacts Quality of Life Among Patients With Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis.

Itch is a frequent, often severe symptom in PSC that is linked to liver disease severity and worse quality of life. Recognizing and measuring pruritus matters because it significantly affects daily functioning and may...

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Inflammation-driven carcinogenesis in ulcerative colitis: Molecular and immunological pathways
World Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology

Inflammation-driven carcinogenesis in ulcerative colitis: Molecular and immunological pathways

People with ulcerative colitis face a higher colorectal cancer risk driven in part by chronic inflammation; this review explains the molecular and immune mechanisms behind that risk and highlights biomarkers and...

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Country-year agreement between GBD 2023 ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease rates and GIVES population-based observations: an ecological agreement study
Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Country-year agreement between GBD 2023 ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease rates and GIVES population-based observations: an ecological agreement study

Compares widely used modelled GBD rates with population-based observations and finds they are not interchangeable for country-year estimates—important for research, surveillance, and policy that rely on these numbers.

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Comprehensively validated µSPE-HPLC-MS/MS method for high-throughput clinical monitoring of Janus kinase inhibitor drugs approved for inflammatory bowel disease treatment
Scientific Reports

Comprehensively validated µSPE-HPLC-MS/MS method for high-throughput clinical monitoring of Janus kinase inhibitor drugs approved for inflammatory bowel disease treatment

Reliable, high-throughput lab methods are a prerequisite for therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM). For people with IBD on JAK inhibitors, validated assays can enable exposure measurement needed for future precision dosing...

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Uveitis and Scleritis as Early Signals of Undiagnosed IBD: A Tiered Screening Framework to Reduce Diagnostic Delay.
Ocular immunology and inflammation

Uveitis and Scleritis as Early Signals of Undiagnosed IBD: A Tiered Screening Framework to Reduce Diagnostic Delay.

Recognizing eye inflammation as a possible early sign of IBD could shorten diagnostic delays and lead to earlier gastroenterology evaluation and treatment, which is especially important for children who often wait years...

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C-Reactive Protein-to-Albumin Ratio in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Associations with Disease Activity and Comparison with C-Reactive Protein Alone
Diagnostics

C-Reactive Protein-to-Albumin Ratio in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Associations with Disease Activity and Comparison with C-Reactive Protein Alone

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...

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Multimodal MRI reveals glymphatic system activity associated with systemic inflammation and neuropsychiatric symptoms in Crohn’s disease
Journal of Gastroenterology

Multimodal MRI reveals glymphatic system activity associated with systemic inflammation and neuropsychiatric symptoms in Crohn’s disease

This study suggests brain glymphatic function — a fluid-clearance system — may be altered in people with Crohn’s disease and could relate to inflammation and common neuropsychiatric symptoms like fatigue, anxiety,...

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Plasma Proteomic Profiling Identifies Biomarkers and Therapeutic Targets for Predicting Osteoporosis Risk in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
The Turkish journal of gastroenterology : the official journal of Turkish Society of Gastroenterology

Plasma Proteomic Profiling Identifies Biomarkers and Therapeutic Targets for Predicting Osteoporosis Risk in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

IBD increases risk of osteoporosis; identifying blood proteins that predict later bone loss could help flag higher-risk patients and reveal biological links between gut inflammation and bone health.

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Upadacitinib effectively suppresses IL13RA2 expression in primary human intestinal fibroblasts derived from Crohn's disease tissue.
Biochemical pharmacology

Upadacitinib effectively suppresses IL13RA2 expression in primary human intestinal fibroblasts derived from Crohn's disease tissue.

The study identifies a cellular mechanism (JAK1-STAT6 pathway) by which upadacitinib can lower IL13RA2 — a molecule tied to inflammation and anti-TNF resistance — which could help explain how JAK inhibitors work in IBD...

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Multiple paths to health: A scoping review of dietary interventions for adults with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
Therapeutic advances in gastroenterology

Multiple paths to health: A scoping review of dietary interventions for adults with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.

Many people with IBD try dietary changes to manage symptoms. This review summarizes what published adult studies report and points toward whole-food and Mediterranean-style patterns as commonly supported approaches.

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Relative abundance of a gut-derived Lancefieldella parvula strain is associated with severe inflammation in IBD
Gut Pathogens

Relative abundance of a gut-derived Lancefieldella parvula strain is associated with severe inflammation in IBD

If confirmed, a gut-derived strain of Lancefieldella parvula that rises with local inflammation could become a mucosal biomarker to help track disease severity or study inflammation mechanisms in IBD.

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Isolated Mild Hyperemia Identified by Intestinal Ultrasound Is Associated With Adverse Outcomes in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
JCC Plus

Isolated Mild Hyperemia Identified by Intestinal Ultrasound Is Associated With Adverse Outcomes in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

If intestinal ultrasound shows mild isolated hyperemia even with normal bowel wall thickness, this study found a higher chance of treatment changes, steroid use, surgery, or hospitalization within a year — information...

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Fatigue in inflammatory bowel disease beyond intestinal inflammation: A cross-sectional study.
Journal of psychosomatic research

Fatigue in inflammatory bowel disease beyond intestinal inflammation: A cross-sectional study.

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...

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Early infliximab levels and clearance predict outcomes in acute severe ulcerative colitis.
Translational gastroenterology and hepatology

Early infliximab levels and clearance predict outcomes in acute severe ulcerative colitis.

Based on the title and source metadata, this appears to be a clinical study related to Ulcerative colitis, Inflammatory bowel disease, and Infliximab. The original article is from Translational gastroenterology and...

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Long-Term Effectiveness and Persistence of Ustekinumab in Crohn's Disease Patients: An Observational Retrospective Study.
Journal of clinical medicine

Long-Term Effectiveness and Persistence of Ustekinumab in Crohn's Disease Patients: An Observational Retrospective Study.

Ustekinumab is already approved for moderate-to-severe Crohn's disease; this real-world study reports encouraging longer-term clinical, biological, and endoscopic outcomes up to 96 weeks and suggests good treatment...

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Ingestible Hydrogel-Encapsulated Optogenetic Yeast Controlled by Wearable Electronics Enables Programmable IL-10 Delivery for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Therapy.
ACS applied materials & interfaces

Ingestible Hydrogel-Encapsulated Optogenetic Yeast Controlled by Wearable Electronics Enables Programmable IL-10 Delivery for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Therapy.

This work explores a novel, programmable way to deliver anti-inflammatory protein therapy (IL-10) directly in the gut using engineered yeast and wearable electronics. If further developed and translated, it could offer a...

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Living well with Crohn’s & Colitis fatigue, pain and urgency/faecal incontinence: the IBD-BOOST research programme including an RCT
Europe PMC

Living well with Crohn’s & Colitis fatigue, pain and urgency/faecal incontinence: the IBD-BOOST research programme including an RCT

Many people with IBD experience persistent fatigue, pain and faecal incontinence even when inflammation is controlled; this programme tested a supported online self-management approach to help those symptoms and assessed...

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Study to Assess Change in Disease Activity of Risankizumab Treatment in Japanese Participants With Moderate to Severe Ulcerative Colitis
ClinicalTrials.gov

Study to Assess Change in Disease Activity of Risankizumab Treatment in Japanese Participants With Moderate to Severe Ulcerative Colitis

This registry will track how people with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis do on risankizumab in routine Japanese clinical practice, which may provide information about real-world remission rates and longer-term...

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VIGIL: Vision-Language Guided Multiple Instance Learning Framework for Ulcerative Colitis Histological Healing Prediction.
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering

VIGIL: Vision-Language Guided Multiple Instance Learning Framework for Ulcerative Colitis Histological Healing Prediction.

The study presents an AI method that combines endoscopic images and diagnostic text to predict histological healing in ulcerative colitis, which could help non-invasive assessment and reduce annotation effort in...

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Evolving role of intestinal ultrasound in the evaluation of Crohn's disease: A clinical- radiological perspective
European Journal of Radiology Open

Evolving role of intestinal ultrasound in the evaluation of Crohn's disease: A clinical- radiological perspective

Intestinal ultrasound is increasingly used to evaluate Crohn’s disease because it’s noninvasive, repeatable, and can detect activity and some complications—potentially reducing reliance on more invasive tests. Wider...

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Treatment persistence after switching between anti-tumor necrosis factor agents and tofacitinib in ulcerative colitis: A nationwide claims-based cohort study in South Korea.
Therapeutic advances in gastroenterology

Treatment persistence after switching between anti-tumor necrosis factor agents and tofacitinib in ulcerative colitis: A nationwide claims-based cohort study in South Korea.

Patients and clinicians considering sequencing of advanced UC therapies may care because this study reports differences in how long patients stayed on second-line treatment depending on the order of anti-TNF agents and...

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