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Faecal calprotectin level for assessing endoscopic activity and predicting future clinical course in patients with moderately active ulcerative colitis undergoing granulomonocytapheresis: a prospective cohort study

BACKGROUND: Calprotectin is a stable neutrophil protein, which can be measured in faecal samples. The faecal level of calprotectin increases during disease activity in ulcerative colitis (UC). Nonetheless, the relevance of faecal calprotectin (FC) measurement during granulomonocytapheresis (GMA) for...

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Autores principales: Shimoyama, Takahiro, Yamamoto, Takayuki, Umegae, Satoru, Matsumoto, Koichi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6090982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30068300
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12876-018-0853-4