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Filter by:Children and adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease are at increased risk of poor bone and muscle health through a variety of factors, including underlying disease processes, nutritional deficits, and reduced physical activity. Inflammatory bowel disease can also delay the onset of puberty in children, and pubertal development in adolescents, resulting in sub-optimal adult bone mass, therefore increasing future risk of fractures and osteoporosis. High impact exercise may be a useful additional therapy for adolescents with IBD, as the mechanical strains produced during this type of exercise, through high force muscular contractions and ground reaction forces, can promote bone formation and gains in muscle mass. There have been no previous studies assessing the effects of high impact exercise in IBD, so it is unknown if this type of exercise is feasible in this population. The aim of this study is to assess the feasibility of a short term jumping based exercise intervention for improving muscle and bone outcomes in children and adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease.
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are both auto-immune diseases that are characterized by chronic relapsing inflammation of respectively the ileocolonic tissue and the synovium. Pathogenesis of both auto-immune diseases is attributed to the proinflammatory cytokine tumor necrosis factor α (TNFa). Adalimumab is a human monoclonal anti-TNF antibody used for treating patients with moderate to severely active IBD and RA. However, current rates of therapeutic nonresponsiveness to this antibody are variable and difficult to predict in advance, whereas patients are potentially exposed to a non-effective treatment and its potential side effects; while clinical deterioration progresses. A key unmet need is the development of a predictive tool for assessment of a therapeutic (non-) response to patients and finding an optimal dose strategy in individual patients before initiating anti-TNF therapy. Unfortunately, we currently lack crucial information about drug distribution of the drug of interest throughout the targeted inflamed tissue itself. Therefore, it remains unknown in both IBD and RA, if the drug reaches its target (in sufficient amounts) and how local drug concentrations are related to therapeutic response. Thus, we linked adalimumab to a fluorescent dye (adalimumab-800CW) in order to create a fluorescent signal of the labelled drug in the diseased tissue that we can visualize and quantify with dedicated optical fluorescence imaging systems. We hypothesize that this tracer will bind to TNFa in the mucosa/synovium and thus create a map of medicine distribution in vivo due to colocalization of the fluorescent labelled compound. Therefore, the aim of this study is to assess the feasibility of fluorescent molecular imaging of adalimumab-800CW in IBD and RA patients.
Identify the association between certain food IgGs (Wheat, rice, broad beans, cow milk, eggs, chicken and beef) and the immunological response in patients with IBD
Heart disease and failure are the major causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide, despite significant advances in medical technologies in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Cardiovascular disease may arise for various reasons including the steadily increasing incidence of obesity, type 2 diabetes, genetic, environmental, dietary and lifestyle factors. Besides all these, there is much evidence suggetsing that inflammation is an important player in the pathogenesis of heart disease, as well as atherogenesis and atherosclerosis.
Trial for IBD patients non-responsive to biological drugs, using medical app reminding patients to take their physician-prescribed medications
The inflammatory bowel diseases represent a heterogeneous group of chronic , relapsing- inflammatory disorders of the gastrointestinal tract. Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are the two major clinical forms.The global incidence and prevalence of the inflammatory bowel diseases has increased over the last 2-4 decades . Despite the great progress in understanding the pathogenesis of these diseases, their etiology remains unclear . Considerable effort has been devoted to the development of an accurate ,noninvasive biomarkers that have increased diagnostic sensitivity and specificity . Osteoprotegerin is a member of the Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor superfamily of proteins. Osteoprotegerin is of particular importance in bone metabolism, inflammation , tumorigenesis, and other processes where cell differentiation, survival, and death are controlled. Osteoprotegerin activates inflammation in the gut by stimulating immune cells, cytokines, and the Necrosis factor-κappaB pathway . Soluble Receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-Β ligand is known as a type II membrane protein and as a member of tumor necrosis factor superfamily . Soluble Receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-Β ligand has been identified to affect the immune system and a binding partner of ( Osteoprotegerin ), and controls cell proliferation.The interactions between Osteoprotegerin and Soluble Receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-Β ligand, Soluble Receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-Β have relevance to inflammatory pathways. Soluble Receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-Β ligand- Soluble Receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-Β ligand binding activates pathways that contribute to the survival of T-lymphocytes and dendritic cells .
Using transcriptomics and proteomics to gain insights in the development of psoriasiform skin lesions under anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) therapy, and predicting response to ustekinumab.
Infections after elective intestinal surgery remain a significant burden for patients and for the health care system. The cost of treating a single surgical site infection is estimated at approximately $27,000. In adult patients, there is good evidence that the combination of oral antibiotics and mechanical bowel preparation is effective at reducing infections after intestinal surgery. In children, the body of evidence is much weaker. In this population, little evidence exists for oral antibiotics reducing infections and no data exists as to the effect of combining antibiotics with mechanical bowel preparation (such as polyethylene glycol (PEG)). The goal of the proposed study is to examine the effects of oral antibiotics with and without the combined use of mechanical bowel preparation on the rate of post-operative infectious complications in children aged 6 months to 18 years. This will be compared to the institution's current standard of care, which is to abstain from any type of mechanical bowel preparations or oral antibiotic administration before intestinal surgery.
IBD-related arthropathy is one of a group of inflammatory arthritides considered as seronegative spondyloarthropathies, a group of disorders that also includes ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, reactive arthritis, and undifferentiated SpA. IBD-related SpA is mainly characterized by axial involvement but may also be associated with peripheral symptoms, such as synovitis, dactylitis, or enthesitis
Aim of the work: To evaluate the role of CT in diagnosis of IBD