3 results match your criteria: "Unit of Digestive Disease of Campus Bio Medico University of Rome[Affiliation]"

Background: Vedolizumab registration trials were the first to include elderly patients with moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis (UC) or Crohn's disease (CD), but few real-life data have been reported in this population.

Aims: We investigated the effectiveness and safety of vedolizumab in matched cohorts of elderly and nonelderly UC and CD patients.

Methods: The Long-term Italian Vedolizumab Effectiveness (LIVE) study is a retrospective-prospective study including UC and CD patients who started vedolizumab from April 2016 to June 2017.

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Background: Altered body composition is frequently observed in Crohn's disease (CD) patients.

Aims: To investigate the nutritional status, and the effect of different therapeutic regimes in adult CD patients.

Methods: Fat free mass (FFM) and BIA-derived phase angle (PhA) were assessed in 45 CD patients, 22 on conventional therapy (CT) and 23 on maintenance therapy with infliximab (MT).

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