Fecal calprotectin predicts complete mucosal healing and better correlates with the ulcerative colitis endoscopic index of severity than with the Mayo endoscopic subscore in patients with ulcerative colitis

BACKGROUND: We aimed to evaluate the role of fecal calprotectin (FC) as a noninvasive marker for the disease activity of ulcerative colitis (UC) in a Korean cohort. METHODS: A total of 181 fecal samples were collected from 181 consecutive UC patients between April 2015 and September 2016. FC levels...

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Autores principales: Lee, Sun-Ho, Kim, Min-Ju, Chang, Kiju, Song, Eun Mi, Hwang, Sung Wook, Park, Sang Hyoung, Yang, Dong-Hoon, Kim, Kyung-Jo, Byeon, Jeong-Sik, Myung, Seung-Jae, Yang, Suk-Kyun, Ye, Byong Duk
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5654142/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29061121
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12876-017-0669-7

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