Screening for advanced liver disease incorporating the use of transitional elastography in primary care.

Objectives: To describe the proportion of patients with liver fibrosis in at-risk populations in primary care (PC). To know the agreement between FIB-4 and transitional elastography (TE), interobserver agreement between PC and hospital care (HC) in TE, and associated risk Factors (RF).

Methods: Observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study in ≥16 years of age with RF for chronic liver disease.

Mercaptopurine and inflammatory bowel disease: the other thiopurine.

Background: Data about use and effectiveness of mercaptopurine in inflammatory bowel disease are relatively limited.

Aims: To assess the possible therapeutic indications, efficacy and safety of mercaptopurine as an alternative to azathioprine in inflammatory bowel disease.

Methods: Retrospective observational study in patients treated with mercaptopurine in a total cohort of 1,574 patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

Interdisciplinary recommendations document to improve adherence in patients with chronic inflammatory diseases: Adhing recommendations.

Objective: Patient compliance in chronic inflammatory diseases is essential to achieve treatment effectiveness. The study objective is to develop a recommendations document for healthcare professionals to encourage treatment compliance.

Methods: A sequential methodology was followed: 1.

[Treatment adherence in inflammatory bowel disease. Strategies for improvement].

Since inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic condition that frequently affects young patients, requires prolonged therapy and is characterized by periods of clinical remission, there is a risk of low treatment adherence. Adherence is influenced by several factors: disease and patient characteristics, treatment complexity and the physician-patient relationship. Given the importance of adherence in treatment results, lack of adherence should be detected and treated.

Idiopathic pancreatitis in inflammatory bowel disease.

Background And Aims: The incidence of pancreatitis is increased in inflammatory bowel disease. However, pancreatitis as an extraintestinal manifestation of the intestinal disease is exceedingly rare. We have retrospectively analyzed the prevalence of pancreatitis in a combined hospital cohort, and specifically studied cases in which no other cause than the intestinal disease itself could be found.

[Inflammatory cloacogenic polyps: a rare cause of rectal bleeding].

Inflammatory cloacogenic polyps are infrequent lesions that usually arise in the anorectal zone. The most common clinical presentation is rectal bleeding. Two cases of rectal bleeding related to cloacogenic polyps with different endoscopic appearance are reported.

[Chronic urticaria and Helicobacter pylori].

Background And Objective: We intended to analyze the influence of Helicobacter pylori eradication on the clinical evolution of patients with chronic idiopathic urticaria.

Patients And Method: The evolution of dermatological symptoms after eradication was studied in a group of 55 patients previously diagnosed with chronic idiopathic urticaria who were infected by Helicobacter pylori.

Results: There was a partial or complete improvement in 74.