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Anemia is one of the most frequent extra-intestinal manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease. Insidious onset, variability of symptoms and lack of standardized screening practices may increase the risk of underestimating its burden in children with IBD. Despite its relevance and peculiarity in everyday clinical practice, this topic is only dealt with in a few documents specifically for the pediatric field.

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Background: The natural history of ulcerative proctitis (UP) has been poorly investigated in children.

Aims: We aimed to compare the disease course of children with UP at diagnosis to the other locations and to identify extension predictors.

Methods: This was a multicenter, observational study carried out from data prospectively entered in the SIGENP-IBD-Registry.

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Background: The new concept of disease remission for pediatric inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) implies the achievement of mucosal healing.

Aims: We aimed to evaluate endoscopic and histologic healing in children with Ulcerative Colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD) in clinical remission after 52 weeks of Azathioprine.

Methods: From December 2012 to July 2015 we prospectively enrolled IBD children starting Azathioprine.

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Background: Few case reports describe the clinical features of pancreatic involvement in inflammatory bowel disease.

Aim: To investigate prevalence and disease course of inflammatory bowel disease children with pancreatitis and with exclusive hyperamylasemia and hyperlipasemia.

Methods: We used a web-registry to retrospectively identify paediatric inflammatory bowel disease patients with hyperamylasemia and hyperlipasemia.

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