introduction and aims: we noticed in our practice that the patients with ulcerative colitis (uc) who have developed primary sclerosing cholangitis (psc) experience a milder course of colonic disease. our objective in this study was to define whether there is any difference between uc activity and its course in patients with and without psc. materials and methods: 19 patients with uc and psc (8 ...

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a nonspecific acute and chronic inflammatory bowel disease that diffusely involves the colonic mucosa. The etiology of UC has not yet been elucidated fully. However, many studies have found that immunologic disorders may play a role in the pathogenesis of UC. In addition, due to an increased frequency of UC in families, especially an increased monozygotic compared...

aim : this retrospective study is aimed to review demographic and clinical characteristics of ibd to elucidate the probable factors associating with ibd development in taleghani hospital in iran since 2001 during a 12-year-period.   background : ulcerative colitis (uc) and crohn’s disease (cd) are two major idiopathic entities of inflammatory bowel disease (ibd). previous studies have reported ...

In this paper, a parametric study of conventional Uniplanar Compact Photonic Band Gap (UC-PBG) structures, with different dimensions, is investigated. The studied structure operates as an Artificial Magnetic Conductor (AMC) in which the performance is mainly characterized by the resonant frequency and bandwidth. Simulation and numerical analysis have been carried out using CST Microwave Studio ...

background: the amount of literature concerning the implication of the red cell distribution width (rdw) in the assessment of ulcerative colitis (uc) activity is rather limited. the aim of this study is to investigate the potential role of rdw in the evaluation of uc disease activity. materials and methods: a total of 96 patients with uc and 51 age and sex-matched healthy volunteers were includ...

aim : the study aims to document the oral lesions in patients with uc. background : inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) is comprised of two chronic, tissue-destructive and clinical entities including crohn's disease (cd) and ulcerative colitis (uc), both of which are immunologically based. patients and methods : the population of the study includes fifty patients with uc, as the experimental group...

anemia is the most common hematologic disorder in patients with ulcerative colitis (uc). in some cases, normochromic anemia results from the presence of chronic disease; however blood loss or malabsorption may lead to an iron deficiency anemia with hypochromic appearance. other rare hematologic manifestations associated with uc include myelodysplastic syndromes and leukemia. several investigato...

background: crohn’s disease (cd) and ulcerative colitis (uc) are two major clinical presentations of inflammatory bowel disease (ibd). many novel candidate genes have been found to be associated with increased risk for ibd. recently il-23 receptor gene is identified as an ibd associated gene in genome-wide studies. objective: to ascertain whether rs7517847 and rs1004819 snps in the il-23 recept...