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SPECIAL ISSUES FROM MEETINGS
2005 DDW abstract highlights
2006 DDW CME satellite symposium on TNF antagonists
2006 ACG CME satellite symposium on TNF antagonists
2007 DDW CME satellite symposium on innovative strategies for biologic therapies in Crohn's disease
2007 ACG satellite symposium
CHROMOENDOSCOPY
Detection of intraepithelial neoplasia and colon cancer
CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE
Screening for p53 and K-ras mutations
COLITIS
A systematic review of collagenous colitis
Long-term colectomy rates after infliximab therapy
Multicenter double-blind trial of budesonide in collagenous colitis
Case-control study of association with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) use
Weekend 5-aminosalicylic acid (ASA) enema maintenance therapy
CROHN'S DISEASE
Adalimumab induction therapy
Adalimumab maintenance therapy
Adherence to thiopurines and mesalamine in children
Antibiotic treatment
Anti-interleukin-12 therapy
Assessment of imaging techniques for small bowel disease
Association of perianal disease with intestinal fistulization
Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Azathioprine maintenance
Birth outcomes in Danish women related to therapy of women with CD
Budesonide for maintenance remission therapy
Capsule endoscopy vs. enteroclysis
Certolizumab pegol as treatment for Crohn’s disease (CD)
Combined budesonide and antibiotic therapy
Defining contributions of gene mutations, age at onset, and tobacco use
Effect of infliximab on resource use
Enteral nutrition (EN) as therapy in children with Crohn’s disease (CD).
CD after allogeneic stem cell transplantation
CD medication and birth outcomes
CD patients’ relatives with subclinical intestinal inflammation
Change in diagnosis from ulcerative colitis (UC) to Crohn’s disease (CD).
Confirmation of the role of ATG16L1
Combination antibiotic therapy in Crohn’s disease
Conventional vs. laparoscopic ileocolic resection
Corticosteroid therapy increases the risk for intra-abdominal or pelvic abscess
Detection of postsurgical Crohn’s disease recurrence
Diagnosis and management of CD
Double-balloon endoscopy and capsule endoscopy
Effects of 5-aminosalicylates (5-ASAs) on renal function
Effects of budesonide and prednisolone on bone mineral density
Elevated vitamin D levels in CD
Ethical issues concerning therapeutic studies
Exposure to diagnostic medical radiation
Expression of I2 antibodies predicts response to fecal diversion
Factors that influence progressive disease behavior
Familial Mediterranean fever gene prevalence
Fontolizumab dose-escalation studies
Guide to infliximab treatment
Immunosuppressive drugs decrease recurrence rate after second resection
Immunosuppressive therapy reduces the formation of antibodies to infliximab
Impact of immunosuppressant therapies
Incidence of Clostridium difficile infection
Increased risk for carcinoid tumors
Ineffectiveness of probiotics
Inflammatory CD and the effect of tobacco consumption
Infliximab maintenance therapy for fistulizing CD
Infliximab: maintenance for life vs episodic therapy
Infliximab for pediatric CD
Infliximab-induced autoantibodies
Infliximab trough serum level predicts outcomes
Laparoscopic ileocolic resection
Localization of anal fistulas
Long-term fracture risk
Long-term outcomes after colonoscopic balloon dilation of strictures
Long-term outcomes after corticosteroid-induced remission
Long-term results of ileocecal resection
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of effects of infliximab therapy
Maintenance budesonide therapy
Maintenance infliximab therapy
Maintenance therapy with adalimumab
Medication adherence
Mercaptopurine following intolerance to azathioprine
Mesalamine formulation determines effectiveness
Meta-analyses of CD studies
Methotrexate (MTX) in pediatric CD patients
Mortality by inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) medication use
Mortality 10 years after diagnosis
Natalizumab therapy
Natalizumab maintenance therapy
Natalizumab treatment for active Crohn’s disease (CD)
Natalizumab and progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
Novel serologic markers
NOD2/CARD15 does not influence response to infliximab
Open-label study of adalimumab
Oral manifestations
Ornidazole prophylaxis
Osteoporotic vertebral fractures
Phenotype predicts recurrence rates
Pilot study anti-interleukin (IL)-6 receptor monoclonal antibody therapy
Pitfalls in interpretation of non-neoplastic mucosal biopsy specimens
Placebo response and remission rates
Postoperative therapy
Predictors of Crohn’s disease
Predictors of response to infliximab
Pregnancy and disease activity
Prevalence of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) in intestinal mucosal biopsies
Prognostic studies
Push-and-pull enteroscopy
Race and health insurance are predictors for bowel resection
Randomized study of adalimumab therapy
Rising hospitalization rates for IBD
Risk of vertebral fractures
Risk factors for colorectal neoplasia
Risk factors for initial surgery in a pediatric population
Risk for intestinal cancer
Role of intestinal microflora
Role of organic cation transporter gene polymorphism
Safety profile of infliximab
Small-bowel adenocarcinoma
Steroid injection after dilation of anastomotic strictures
Risk of early surgery
Risk factors for the development of stricturing or penetrating disease
Serum immune response in children as a predictor of disease progression
Surgical vs. percutaneous drainage of abdominal and pelvic abscesses
Survival after colorectal cancer
Swedish twin study
Tacrolimus for the treatment of fistulas
The hygiene hypothesis
Thiopurine S-methyltransferase (TPMT) deficient CD patients and azathioprine therapy
Treatment with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor
Trial of certolizumab
Trial of Lactobacillus GG in addition to standard maintenance therapy in children with CD
Trial of sargramostim
Wireless capsule endoscopy
ILEAL POUCHITIS
Factors affecting cost and length of hospitalization
Probiotic therapy
INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE
6-thioguanine
6-thioguanine nucleotide (6-TGN) levels
Acute gastroenteritis and risk of IBD
Allopurinol in azathioprine (AZA) or 6-mercaptopurine (6-MP) failures
Aminosalicylates and colorectal cancer in IBD: a review
Antibodies as predictors of IBD
Arterial thromboembolic diseases
Assessment of thrombin-activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor
Association of azathioprine toxicity with gene polymorphisms
Association of antibody reactivity to microbial antigens with small bowel complications
Associated osteopenia.
Azathioprine and 6-mercaptopurine (6-MP) and risk of lymphoma
Budesonide treatment of collagenous colitis
Budesonide treatment.
Cyclosporine
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) colitis
Capsule endoscopy retention
Complementary alternative medicine
Consensus conference
Concerns of patients with inflammatory bowel disease and an ileostomy
Correlation of azathioprine thioguanine nucleotide metabolite levels and disease activity
Corticosteroids and immunomodulators: postoperative risks for infection
Corticosteroid use and bone fracture
Discriminating IBD from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
Do life events trigger IBD relapse?
Do patients receive optimal care?
Effects of appendectomy
Effect of smoking on phenotype
Efficacy and safety of thalidomide
Enteric infection at relapse
Epithelial barrier disruption and intestinal inflammatory response
Familial transmission of CARD15
Genetics of IBD
Guidelines for immunizations in patients with IBD
Gut barrier function
Hepatosplenic T-cell lymphoma (HSTCL) following infliximab.
Herpes zoster incidence
HLA disparity and disease activity
Hormonal replacement therapy (HRT)
IBD and pregnancy
IBD-associated gastrointestinal cancer: Prognosis and risk
IBD in children under 5 years of age
IBD is not a risk factor for cardiovascular (CV) disease mortality
IBD-related osteonecrosis
IBD summer camp and improvement in health-related quality of life
Immune-mediated disease clustering in IBD patients
Impact of IBD on labor force
Impact of IBD on women
Impact of race and ethnicity
Immune responses to influenza vaccine
Immunosuppression: A role in the management and development of inflammatory bowel disease
Increased risk for demyelinating and other inflammatory diseases
Indeterminate colitis
Ineffective biologics
Iron deficiency anemia
Iron therapy
Laboratory markers
Long-term follow-up of tacrolimus therapy
Long-term nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) activity
Mortality in IBD
Neoplasms after 6-mercaptopurine
Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug treatment of IL-10-deficient mice
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and colonic ulcers
Only non-specific inhibitors of both cyclooxygenase (COX)-1 and COX-2 induce IBD flares
Oral iron therapy in IBD
Oral medication adherence in a pediatric population
Patient nonadherence to medication
Patient-orientated self management
Pediatric Crohn's disease
Pediatric intermediate colitis
Pediatric therapies for inflammatory bowel disease
Pharmacogenomic studies during thiopurine therapy
Pharmacokinetic effect of mesalazine on mercaptopurine metabolites
Pregnancy outcomes
Prevalence of anemia
Report on the vitamin D status of IBD patients

Reproduction in patients with IBD

Reviews

Risk for lymphoma

Risk for thromboembolism
Risk of developing IBD is affected by having siblings
Role of smoking
Safety of 6-mercaptopurine (6-MP) for childbearing patients
Seasonal variation of flares
Survival and causes of mortality
Targeting selective adhesion molecules
The effect of iron therapy for anemia on quality of life
Thiopurine-induced liver injury
Thiopurine methyltransferase (TPMT) enzyme activity is predictive of azathioprine-induced myelosuppression.
Total and cancer mortality in UC vs. CD patients
Treatment of anemia with intravenous iron sucrose
Uveitis and erythema nodosum in IBD
Work losses related to IBD
INFLIXIMAB THERAPY
A comparison of infliximab treatment strategies
Antibody formation to infliximab
Antibody responses to infliximab
Association between response to infliximab and type of fistula
Associated autoimmunity
CDC warns physicians who prescribe TNF-alpha antagonists to monitor patients for TB
Effects of infliximab maintenance therapy on quality of life
High incidence of anergy
Induction of tolerance to infliximab in patients with prior severe infusion reactions
Infliximab management for CD of the ileal-pouch anastomosis
Infliximab and risk of latent virus reactivation
Infliximab management of ulcerative colitis
Infliximab plus azathioprine (AZA)/6-mercaptopurine (MP)
Infliximab therapy adherence in CD
Infliximab therapy and pregnancy outcomes
Infliximab use is not associated with an increased risk of neoplasia
Influence of immunogenicity
Lack of postoperative complications in CD patients
Long-term safety data for patients treated with infliximab
Patient perceptions of infliximab
Population-based cohort safety study
Relationship with the onset of granulomatous infection
Risk-benefit analysis of infliximab therapy
Transplacental transfer of infliximab
NOVEL THERAPIES
Daclizumab therapy of active ulcerative colitis
Pulse cyclophosphamide
POUCHITIS
Probiotic therapy for recurrent or refractory pouchitis
PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM
Infliximab therapy (November 2002)
Infliximab therapy (October 2003)
RECTOVAGINAL FISTULAS
Long-term infliximab treatment
ULCERATIVE COLITIS
5-aminosalicylate (ASA) use and the development of colorectal cancer
5-aminosalicylate (ASA) use and colorectal cancer risk
Adenoma-like dysplasia-associated lesions or masses (DALMs): long-term follow-up after polypectomy
Assessment of rectal mucosa by magnifying colonoscopy
Azathioprine vs. azathioprine plus olsalazine
Azathioprine vs 5-aminosalicylic acid
Balsalazide therapy associated with more rapid improvements
Blockade of cellular adhesion molecules
Chromoscopic endomicroscopy vs chromoscopy alone
Clinical course of distal UC
Colectomy rates in a European cohort
Combined oral and enema treatment with mesalamine
Continuous Infusion vs. bolus administration of steroids
Controversies in IBD
Curcumin maintenance therapy
Cyclosporine therapy
Cytomegalovirus infection
DNA fingerprinting abnormalities
Dose-finding study of alicaforsen enemas
Dose-finding study of oral tacrolimus
Effectiveness of 5-amino-salicylic acid (5-ASA) enemas
Effectiveness of colorectal cancer surveillance
Endoscopic cancer surveillance in ulcerative colitis
Endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) of flat neoplasia
Epidermal growth factor (EGF) enema therapy
Experience with infliximab in childhood UC
Factors associated with colorectal cancer
Factors associated with a decrease in the extent of disease
Female fertility after ileal pouch-anal anastomosis
Follow-up of patients with low-grade dysplasia
High concentration multimatrix system (MMX) mesalamine
High-dose vs. low-dose cyclosporine
Higher-dose mesalamine
Histologic inflammation is a risk factor for progression to neoplasia