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Isolated active ileitis: is it a mild subtype of Crohn's disease?
Inflammatory bowel diseases - 1 Aug 2013
O'Donnell Sarah, Crotty Paul L, O'Sullivan Maria, Breslin Niall, O'Connor Humphrey J, O'Morain Colm A, Ryan Barbara M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Ileal intubation is being increasingly performed at colonoscopy and has in turn lead to an increasingly recognized subgroup of patients-those with mild terminal ileal inflammation, an entity that we have coined isolated active ileitis (IAI). The aims of this study were to define the natural history of IAI and determine if IAI shares a similar genetic and serologic profile with Crohn's disease (CD)....
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