Objective To explore the role of Australian nurses in the provision of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) health services. Design A questionnaire survey. Setting Hospitals in Australia and the South West of the United Kingdom (UK). Subjects Inflammatory bowel disease nurses. Main outcome measure The diversity of IBD services. Results Twelve Australian and 19 UK nurses returned completed questionn...

Background Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection has been associated with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Numerous studies have been conducted to analyze the association between HCMV infection and risk of IBD and steroid-resistant IBD, but no clear consensus had been reached. Objectives The aim of this study was to confirm this relationship precisely by doing a systematic review and meta-a...

BACKGROUND Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a common cause of signs of gastrointestinal disease in cats. A subset of cats with IBD has neutrophilic inflammation of the intestinal mucosa. HYPOTHESIS Neutrophilic enteritis in cats is associated with mucosal invasion by microorganisms, and specifically Campylobacter spp. ANIMALS Seven cats with neutrophilic IBD and 8 cats with lymphoplasmac...

Background and Aims Although genome-wide association studies [GWAS] in inflammatory bowel disease [IBD] have identified a large number of common disease susceptibility alleles for both Crohn's disease [CD] and ulcerative colitis [UC], a substantial fraction of IBD heritability remains unexplained, suggesting that rare coding genetic variants may also have a role in pathogenesis. We used high-th...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) might be at increased risk for herpes zoster infection. We sought to quantify the risk of herpes zoster in patients with IBD and evaluate the effects of IBD and IBD medications on the risk of herpes zoster. METHODS We conducted 2 retrospective studies of populations of Veterans, from January 2000 through June 2016. In study 1, w...

Worldwide, the highest prevalence of esophageal cancer (EC) occurs in Northern China. High-density SNP arrays allow identification of identity-by-descent (IBD) segments in genomic DNAs representative of shared common ancestral regions. We utilized IBD approaches to map susceptibility loci associated with low-penetrance SNPs in high-risk Henan hereditary esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC)...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has familial aggregation in African Americans (AAs), but little is known about the molecular genetic susceptibility. Mapping studies using the Immunochip genotyping array expand the number of susceptibility loci for IBD in Caucasians to 163, but the contribution of the 163 loci and European admixture to IBD risk in AAs is unclear. We performed ...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) may result in disability. We aim to validate a novel scoring system for the IBD disability index (IBD-DI), and identify predictors of disability and its correlation with work absenteeism. METHODS This prospective IBD ambulatory clinic cohort study measured IBD-DI, Crohn's Disease Activity Index (CDAI) for Crohn's disease (CD) or partial Ma...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Morbid obesity is an emerging problem in the inflammatory bowel disease [IBD] population. Bariatric and IBD surgeries share technical difficulties and elevated morbidity. However, nothing is known about the possibility of performing bariatric surgery in patients with a definite diagnosis of IBD. The aim of this study was to evaluate safety and efficacy of restrictive bariatr...

Introduction: Increasing evidence has raised an alert about the potential risk of vascular complications in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Estimating the magnitude of this risk is imperative to better address IBD patients. The aim of this study was to determine the venous (VTE) and Arterial Thromboembolic Events rates (ATE), as well as the Cardiovascular Events (CVE) and related mortality in...