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Clinically active Crohn's disease in the presence of a low C-reactive protein.
Scandinavian journal of gastroenterology - 1 Mar 2006
Florin Timothy H J, Paterson Ewan W J, Fowler Elizabeth V, Radford-Smith Graham L
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OBJECTIVE: Clinical interest in C-reactive protein (CRP) -- a component of the innate immune system -- has focused mainly on its worth as an indicator of disease activity. There has been a resurgence of interest in CRP in the Crohn's disease (CD) literature because several trials of new treatments for active CD have been characterized by both a large proportion of patients with low CRP (<10 mg/l) at entry to the...
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