How does disease location affect acute phase reactants in ulcerative colitis?

Differing acute phase responses in Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.

Thirty eight patients with Crohn's disease and 30 patients with ulcerative colitis have been assessed using the technique of faecal excretion of 111Indium granulocytes to quantify precisely acute inflammatory activity. At the time of each faecal granulocyte measurement the serum concentration of the acute phase protein C-reactive protein and the erythrocyte sedimentation rate were estimated. C-...

Acute Phase Reactants as a Prognostic Factor in Acute Stroke

Introduction: Elevated levels of CRP are present among patients at risk for further first-ever myocardial infarction and stroke. It has been shown that after ischemic stroke, increased levels of CRP are associated with unfavorable outcomes. Methods: From 120 patients admitted to the emergency unit of our hospital with the diagnosis of stroke CRP, D-dimer and ferritin level was measured and the ...

Crohn's disease from ulcerative colitis. Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease

were studied, using an indirect immunoperoxidase technique. These findings were compared with the immunoglobulin containing cell number in colonic biopsies from 10 control patients with no evidence of colitis. In biopsies from the 20 patients with inflammatory bowel disease a marked increase in area of the lamina propria per millimetre mucosa length was found. In ulcerative colitis a marked inc...

How does the disease activity of Ulcerative Colitis relate to the incidence of Colon cancer?

How Does Monetary Policy Affect Household Income Distribution?

Over the last decades the research on monetary policy has largely concentrated on the impact of monetary authorities’ decisions on inflation and the fine-tuning of the macroeconomic, so that distributional effects of monetary policy which are non-trivial has been ignored. A view that has become increasingly popular since the financial crisis 2008 is that expansionary monetary policy can exacerb...