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21.07.2021 | Editorial
Is the APEX Score the Pinnacle of Predictive Scoring Systems of Disease Flare in Crohn’s Patients with Documented Mucosal Healing?
verfasst von:
Georgios I. Tsiaoussis, Eirini Christaki
Erschienen in:
Digestive Diseases and Sciences
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Ausgabe 4/2022
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Excerpt
Crohn’s disease (CD) is a chronic relapsing immune-mediated disease affecting the gastrointestinal tract. Effective disease management is dependent on regularly assessing patients with CD for disease recurrence, which is defined according to clinical, radiographic, serologic, and endoscopic criteria. Since approximately 20% of patients with CD have disease limited to the small intestine and since the entire length of the small intestine cannot be visualized endoscopically, these investigations are often inconclusive. In these instances, a small bowel capsule endoscopy (SBCE) is needed to establish the diagnosis or to diagnoses a recurrence of small bowel CD [
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