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Erschienen in: Digestive Diseases and Sciences 4/2022

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 | Ausgabe 4/2022

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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 [1]. …
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Titel
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
Publikationsdatum
21.07.2021
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Digestive Diseases and Sciences / Ausgabe 4/2022
Print ISSN: 0163-2116
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-2568
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10620-021-07154-4

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