BACKGROUND AND AIMS Mucosal healing is an important predictor of disease-related outcome in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients, including those in clinical remission. However, colonoscopy is an invasive procedure and many patients decline repeated endoscopic examinations. We aimed to assess whether noninvasive biomarkers could accurately detect endoscopic mucosal inflammato...

OBJECTIVES A central tenet of organised cancer screening is that all persons in a target population are invited. The aims of this study were to identify participant and physician factors associated with response to mailed physician-linked invitations (study 1) and to evaluate their effectiveness in an organised colorectal cancer (CRC) screening programme (study 2). DESIGN AND SETTING 2 studie...

BACKGROUND Sirtuins are a class of proteins with important physiologic roles in metabolism and inflammation. Sirtuin (silent mating type information regulation 2 homolog) 1, or SIRT1, activation is an unexplored therapeutic approach for the treatment of ulcerative colitis (UC). METHODS Patients with mild to moderately active UC were blindly randomized to 50 mg or 500 mg daily of SRT2104, a se...

The aim of the study was to compare an enzyme immunoassay method with shell vial cell culture method for detection of rotavirus in fecal specimens. In addition, the correlation between laboratory results and clinical scores of patients with gastroenteritis was evaluated. A total of 219 fecal specimens from children (ages 3 weeks to 5 years) with acute gastroenteritis submitted to pediatric emer...

Replacing dietary starch with sugar and sodium-propionate has been reported to improve performance in ruminant animals. This experiment was conducted to determine the effects of replacing different sources of energy with barley grain in dairy calves′ starter on weaning, dry matter intake, average daily gain (ADG), feed efficiency, skeletal growth, and fecal score. A total of 21 male calves (42 ...

we conducted this study to compare fecal calprotectin between exclusively breastfed and formula or mixed fed infants aged one month and six months. sixty term infants were enrolled from the labor ward of valiasr hospital between oct 2011 and july 2015 and their fecal calprotectin was checked by the elisa method and hycult biotech kits. the enrolled infants had a birth weight of 2500-4000 g and ...

background: raw vegetables are particularly susceptible to microbial growth and, therefore, use of an effective sanitizer on these food items is of great importance. the objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of the vegetable disinfection protocol set forth by iranian ministry of health in reducing populations of total coliform, fecal coliform, and parasites present on lettuce. me...

Abstract The present report describes the end-to-end technique of anal sphincter repair in a 36-year-old female patient with post-vaginal delivery fecal incontinence (FI). had history two vaginal deliveries and symptoms FI were observed after second delivery. On assessment severity using Wexner score, score 12. Endoanal ultrasonography revealed an anterior defect external extending from 11 to 3...

authors found that the overall accuracy for differentiating IBD from IBS or other types of colitis was 94% and 91% respectively for Quantum Blue ® (cutoff, 50 μg/g); 92% and 89% for EliA TM (cutoff, 50 μg/g); and 82% and 76% for RIDAS-CREEN ® (cutoff, 50 μg/g). The Quantum Blue ® Calprotectin and EliA TM Calprotectin results were significantly correlated with the CDAI (Spearman's rank correlati...