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Specialists need to raise awareness about patients with inflammatory bowel disease who have rare extraintestinal manifestations.
Infliximab can improve DM in the treatment of ulcerative colitis. Specialists need to raise awareness about patients with inflammatory bowel disease who have rare extraintestinal manifestations.
It is important to differentiate benign and malignant focal liver lesions (FLLs) accurately. Despite the wide use and acceptance of shear wave elastography (SWE), its value for assessing the elasticity of FLLs and differentiating benign and malignant FLLs is still investigational. Previous studies of SWE for FLLs used mean elasticity as the parameter to reflect the stiffness of FLLs. find protocol Considering the inhomogeneity of tumor stiffness, maximal elasticity (Emax) might be the suitable parameter to reflect the stiffness of FLLs and to differentiate malignant FLLs from benign ones.

To explore the value of SWE with Emax in differential diagnosis of solid FLLs.

We included 104 solid FLLs in 95 patients and 50 healthy volunteers. All the subjects were examined using conventional ultrasound (US) and virtual touch tissue quantification(VTQ) imaging. A diagnosis of benign or malignant FLL was made using conventional US. Ten VTQ values were acquired after 10 consecutive measurements for each FLL and each normal liverifferential diagnosis of FLLs, especially in combination with conventional US.
Most cholangiocarcinoma patients with malignant obstructive jaundice (MOJ) havevarying degrees of malnutrition and immunodeficiency preoperatively. Therefore, perioperative nutritional support has important clinical significance in the treatment of cholangiocarcinoma.

To investigate the effectsof postoperative early enteral nutrition (EEN) on immunity function and clinical outcomes of cholangiocarcinoma patients with MOJ.

This prospective clinical study included 60 cholangiocarcinoma patients with MOJ whounderwentsurgery. The patients were randomly divided into an experimental group and a control group according to the nutrition support modes. The control group received postoperative total parenteral nutrition (TPN), whereas the experimental group received postoperative EEN and parenteral nutrition (PN;EEN + PN). The clinical outcomes, postoperative immune function, incidences of surgical siteinfection and bile leakage, intestinal function recovery time, average hospitalization days, andhospitalization ram could reduce the incidence of postoperative complications and improve the clinical outcomes and immune functionsof cholangiocarcinoma patients with MOJand isthusbeneficial to patientrecovery.
A postoperative EEN program could reduce the incidence of postoperative complications and improve the clinical outcomes and immune functions of cholangiocarcinoma patients with MOJ and is thus beneficial to patient recovery.
Inflammation plays an important role in tumor progression, and growing evidence has confirmed that the fibrinogen-to-albumin ratio (FAR) is an important prognostic factor for overall survival in malignant tumors.

To investigate the prognostic significance of FAR in patients undergoing radical R0 resection of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC).

We retrospectively analyzed the data of 282 patients with PDAC who underwent radical R0 resection at The Cancer Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences from January 2010 to December 2019. The surv_cutpoint function of the R package survminer
RStudio software (version 1.3.1073, http//www.rstudio.org) was used to determine the optimal cut-off values of biological markers, such as preoperative FAR. The Kaplan-Meier method and log-rank tests were used for univariate survival analysis, and a Cox regression model was used for multivariate survival analysis for PDAC patients who underwent radical R0 resection.

The optimal cut-off value of FAR was 0.f PDAC patients undergoing radical R0 resection.
The increase in preoperative FAR was significantly related to poor prognosis in patients undergoing radical R0 resection for PDAC. Preoperative FAR can be used clinically to predict the prognosis of PDAC patients undergoing radical R0 resection.
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is common in the German population, with an even higher prevalence in inflammatory bowel disease patients.

To investigate the risk factors for NAFLD in inflammatory bowel disease patients.

This monocentric retrospective study with a cross-sectional and a longitudinal part included 694 patients. Inclusion criteria were diagnosed inflammatory bowel disease, age ≥ 18 years, availability of at least one abdominal ultrasound. Patients with infectious or suspected alcoholic fatty liver disease were excluded. NAFLD was defined by increased echogenicity at liver ultrasound. Demographic characteristics, disease activity and medications were analyzed as potential risk factors. Parameters influencing the course of NAFLD were identified by a generalized linear mixed model.

Forty-eight percent of Crohn's disease (CD) patients and 44% of ulcerative colitis patients suffered from NAFLD. Its occurrence was associated with greater age, hypertension and body mass index (BMI) in both groups, and with higher disease activity and dyslipidemia in CD. 2467 ultrasound results were included in the longitudinal analysis. Risk factors for NAFLD were age, BMI, higher disease activity, bowel resection(s), endoscopic activity and azathioprine use in CD; and BMI and endoscopic activity in ulcerative colitis.

NAFLD was highly prevalent in this cohort of German inflammatory bowel disease patients. Its risk increased mainly with rising age and BMI. This analysis provides a rationale for non-invasive liver screening in inflammatory bowel disease patients.
NAFLD was highly prevalent in this cohort of German inflammatory bowel disease patients. Its risk increased mainly with rising age and BMI. This analysis provides a rationale for non-invasive liver screening in inflammatory bowel disease patients.
The expression of jumonji domain-containing 3 (Jmjd3) and trimethylated H3 lysine 27 (H3K27me3) in active ulcerative colitis (UC) and the correlation between vitamin D receptor (VDR) and the Jmjd3 pathway are unknown.

To study the relationship between VDR, Jmjd3 and H3K27me3 in patients with active UC.

One hundred patients with active UC and 56 healthy controls were enrolled in this study. The patients with active UC were divided into groups according to mild (
= 29), moderate (
= 32) and severe (
= 29) disease activity based on the modified Mayo score. Vitamin D levels were measured by radioimmunoassay. Colonic mucosal tissues from UC patients and controls were collected by colonoscopy. The expression of VDR, Jmjd3 and H3K27me3 in the intestinal mucosa was determined by immunohistochemistry staining.

Patients with active UC had lower levels of serum vitamin D (13.7 ± 2.8 ng/mL,
< 0.001) than the controls (16.2 ± 2.5 ng/mL). In the UC cohort, serum vitamin D level was negatively correlated with disease activity (
= -0.
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