Blood biomarkers reflect integration of severity and extent of endoscopic inflammation in ulcerative colitis: Blood biomarkers in ulcerative colitis
2017
Background and Aim
Blood markers are not always regarded as satisfactory surrogate biomarkers for predicting endoscopic activity in ulcerative colitis (UC). However, those biomarkers have been evaluated solely based on endoscopic activity at the most severe colorectal location, taking no account of the extent of inflammation. This study aimed to examine whether integrated evaluation of severity and extent of endoscopic activity improves the performance of blood biomarkers for UC.
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