Publications by authors named "Joerg Burmeister"
Objective: The etiology of microscopic colitis is unclear; an autoimmune response and pharmacological induction have been proposed as possible mechanisms. We conducted a multicentre cross-sectional study to compare the antibody profiles of patients with collagenous and lymphocytic colitis with those of a control group.
Methods: The medical histories and antibody profiles of 26 patients with collagenous and 16 patients with lymphocytic colitis were compared with the corresponding data of 43 controls without gastroenterological disease.