Publications by authors named "S P L Travis"

Background: Small bowel Crohn's disease (SBCD) is increasingly treated with biological therapies. Predicting response or remission (RoR) for individual patients is difficult and complicates treatment strategy. We aimed to determine if motility magnetic resonance imaging (mMRI) is superior to CRP and fecal calprotectin (FC) for the prediction of RoR at 1 year in patients commencing biologics for SBCD.

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Chronic pouchitis affects 13% to 17% of patients with ileal pouch-anal anastomosis and ulcerative colitis, and 20% with a history of acute pouchitis. It is classified by antibiotic responsiveness into chronic antibiotic-dependent pouchitis and chronic antibioticrefractory pouchitis. Pathogenesis of chronic pouchitis can range from microbially mediated to more antibiotic-resistant and immune-mediated processes.

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Background & Aims: Venous thromboembolism is a serious complication during and following hospitalization with acute severe ulcerative colitis (ASUC). We evaluated serial thrombotic profiles of patients with ASUC from the point of hospitalization up to 12 weeks postdischarge and compared these with control patients with quiescent ulcerative colitis.

Methods: Twenty-seven patients with ASUC and 25 control patients with quiescent ulcerative colitis were recruited.

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Introduction: Bowel urgency has recently been recognized as a Crohn's disease (CD) symptom that substantially impacts patients' quality of life. The Urgency NRS is a single-item patient-reported outcome measure assessing bowel urgency severity in the past 24 h (0-10 scale). We aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Urgency Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) in adults with moderately to severely active CD and to estimate thresholds for meaningful improvement and bowel urgency remission.

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  • Patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have a significant risk of developing colorectal cancer, and there's no consensus on the best surveillance methods.
  • A study analyzed 91 patients with PSC and IBD over ten years to evaluate how effective chromoendoscopy and high-definition endoscopy were in detecting neoplastic lesions during regular check-ups.
  • Results showed that chromoendoscopy greatly increased the detection rate of neoplasia (by 5.58 times), while high-definition endoscopy also improved detection, but its significance diminished when factoring in chromoendoscopy.
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