Measuring disease activity in Crohn's disease: what is currently available to the clinician

Measuring disease activity in Crohn’s disease: what is currently available to the clinician

Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease characterized by a relapsing-remitting clinical behavior and dominated by intestinal inflammation. Being a chronic disorder that with time develops into a disabling disease, it is important to monitor the severity of inflammation to assess the efficacy of medication, rule out complications, and prevent progression. This is particularl...

Limitations of currently available Chagas disease chemotherapy.

1 Rev Esp Quimioter 2012;25 (1):1-3 post-treatment, which was deemed to reflect the effectiveness of the treatment to clear parasites better than serology. Moreover, PCR allowed treatment failure to be ratified – in our case in 6.9% of the patients, who shifted to positive at the end of the follow-up period. Although PCR is a sensitive and specific tool for the early detection of the parasite’s...

Cardiovascular disease could be contained based on currently available data!

Largely due to better control of infectious diseases and significant advances in biomedical research, life expectancy worldwide has increased dramatically in the last three decades. However, as the average age of the population has risen, the incidence of chronic age-related diseases such as arthritis, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, cardiovascular disease, cancer, osteoporosis, benign prostatic hype...

Visual perception in preterm children: what are we currently measuring?

Over the past two decades, cerebral visual impairment has been recognized as a principal deficit in preterm children, and in particular those with cerebral palsy. We review the current knowledge of visual processing deficits in these children, and provide an overview of the tools for assessing cerebral visual impairment. Commercially available instruments are usually directed at evaluating visu...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): What we need to know (In Press)