Publications by authors named "Ariadna Clos Parals"
Background: Bacterial infections remain one of the main complications in cirrhosis and worsen patients' prognosis and quality of life. An increase in multidrug resistant microorganism (MDRM) infections among patients with cirrhosis, together with infection-related mortality rates, have been reported in recent years. Therefore, adaptation of the initial empiric antibiotic approach to different factors, particularly the local epidemiology of MDRM infections, has been recommended.
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- Tacrolimus is a medicine used to help prevent organ rejection in transplant patients and may also help people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
- A study in Spain looked at 143 adult patients with IBD who took tacrolimus for 3 months, and many showed improvement in their symptoms.
- Some patients had side effects, and 84% stopped taking the medicine because it stopped working for them, with a small number developing serious issues like cancer.
Background: Colonic cytomegalovirus [CMV] reactivation has been involved in steroid refractoriness in patients with active ulcerative colitis [UC]. The benefits of antiviral therapy in this clinical setting are still under debate, but the burden of viral reactivation has been associated with a poorer outcome in some studies. Our aim was to assess whether the burden of CMV reactivation measured by the number of viral inclusions by immunohistochemistry [IHC-CMV] is associated with a risk of colectomy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPoor correlation between acute phase reactants and intestinal involvement in patients with onset of Crohn's disease under treatment with an interleukin-6 inhibitor due to seronegative arthropathy.
Gastroenterol Hepatol
December 2016