Acute histological inflammatory activity is associated with clinical relapse in patients with ulcerative colitis in clinical and endoscopic remission.

It has been suggested that acute histological activity has a prognostic value in the outcome of ulcerative colitis (UC) patients in clinical and endoscopic remission. Our aim was to assess the role of histology as a risk factor for clinical relapse (CR) in patients in both clinical and endoscopic remission.

Source: Digestive and Liver Disease - September 8, 2017 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Margalida Calafat, Triana Lobat ón, Alba Hernández-Gallego, Míriam Mañosa, Paola Torres, Fiorella Cañete, Eduard Cabré, Isabel Ojanguren, Eugeni Domènech Tags: Alimentary Tract Source Type: research