Pub Date : 2025-12-29DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2025.12.022
Nathan Constantine-Cooke, Marie Vibeke Vestergaard, Nikolas Plevris, Karla Monterrubio-Gómez, Clara Ramos-Belinchón, Solomon Ong, Alexander T Elford, Beatriz Gros, Aleksejs Sazonovs, Gareth-Rhys Jones, Tine Jess, Catalina A Vallejos, Charlie W Lees
Background & aims: Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are highly heterogeneous, dynamic, and unpredictable, with a marked disconnect between symptoms and intestinal inflammation. We aimed to describe latent disease heterogeneity in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) by identifying longitudinal fecal calprotectin (FC) and C-reactive protein (CRP) patterns.
Methods: In this longitudinal study, patient-level measurements of FC and CRP in 2 European cohorts were modeled. Latent class mixed models were used to cluster individuals with similar longitudinal profiles. Associations between cluster assignment and baseline characteristics were quantified using multinomial logistic regression. Differences in advanced therapy use across clusters were explored. Finally, we considered the overlap between FC and CRP clusters.
Results: We included 1036 patients in the FC discovery analysis (Lothian) with a total of 10545 FC observations (median, 9 per subject; interquartile range, 6-13), and 7880 patients in the replication (Denmark). The CRP discovery analysis consisted of 1838 patients with 49364 measurements (median, 20 per subject; interquartile range, 10-36), with 10,041 patients in the replication cohort. Eight distinct clusters of inflammatory behavior over time were identified in the FC and CRP analysis. Similar patterns were observed in the replication cohort. The clusters included rapid remitters, delayed remitters, remitting-relapsing disease, and non-remitters. The highest use of early advanced therapy was in the group with the lowest overall inflammation. There was broadly poor agreement between FC and CRP cluster assignment.
Conclusions: Distinct patterns of inflammatory behavior over time are evident in patients with IBD. These data pave the way for a deeper understanding of disease heterogeneity in IBD.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-29DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2025.12.023
David T Rubin, Navneet K Natt
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Pub Date : 2025-12-27DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2025.12.020
Emily C.L. Wong, Parambir S. Dulai, John K. Marshall, Vipul Jairath, Walter Reinisch, Neeraj Narula
{"title":"Week 12 Reduction in MM-SES-CD is Predictive of Delayed Response to Upadacitinib in Crohn’s disease","authors":"Emily C.L. Wong, Parambir S. Dulai, John K. Marshall, Vipul Jairath, Walter Reinisch, Neeraj Narula","doi":"10.1016/j.cgh.2025.12.020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2025.12.020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10347,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145844796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-27DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2025.12.019
Bram Verstockt, Thibault Taelman, Shahida Din, Stephan R. Vavricka, Andreas Blesl, Yamile Zabana, Wouter Van Moerkercke, Vytautas Kiudelis, Juan de la Revilla Negro, Michel H. Maillard, Edoardo Vincenzo Savarino, Niels Teich, Gilles Macaigne, Marie Truyens, Davide Giuseppe Ribaldone, Manuel Barreiro-de Acosta, Signe Wildt, Pauline Rivière, Mathurin Fumery, Aurélien Amiot, Jan Marsal, Gian Eugenio Tontini, Asaf Levartovsky, Sophie Vieujean, Michael Somers, Anneline Cremer, Ivan Lutakov, Nathaniel A. Cohen, Sophie Dewit, Lukas Bajer, Jean-Francois Rahier, Ann-Sofie Backman, Stephane Nancey, Tenzin Choden, Jurgen Van Dongen, Gerhard Rogler, Matthias Lenfant, Mhairi Finlayson, Andreas Münch, Mette Julsgaard
{"title":"Real-world effectiveness of advanced therapies in microscopic colitis","authors":"Bram Verstockt, Thibault Taelman, Shahida Din, Stephan R. Vavricka, Andreas Blesl, Yamile Zabana, Wouter Van Moerkercke, Vytautas Kiudelis, Juan de la Revilla Negro, Michel H. Maillard, Edoardo Vincenzo Savarino, Niels Teich, Gilles Macaigne, Marie Truyens, Davide Giuseppe Ribaldone, Manuel Barreiro-de Acosta, Signe Wildt, Pauline Rivière, Mathurin Fumery, Aurélien Amiot, Jan Marsal, Gian Eugenio Tontini, Asaf Levartovsky, Sophie Vieujean, Michael Somers, Anneline Cremer, Ivan Lutakov, Nathaniel A. Cohen, Sophie Dewit, Lukas Bajer, Jean-Francois Rahier, Ann-Sofie Backman, Stephane Nancey, Tenzin Choden, Jurgen Van Dongen, Gerhard Rogler, Matthias Lenfant, Mhairi Finlayson, Andreas Münch, Mette Julsgaard","doi":"10.1016/j.cgh.2025.12.019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2025.12.019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10347,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology","volume":"94 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145844797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-24DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2025.12.014
Mary E. Rinella, Michael R. Charlton, Yestle Kim, Suneil Hosmane, Tom O’Connell
{"title":"Assessing predictive performance of FIB-4 in settings with lower prevalence of liver fibrosis","authors":"Mary E. Rinella, Michael R. Charlton, Yestle Kim, Suneil Hosmane, Tom O’Connell","doi":"10.1016/j.cgh.2025.12.014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2025.12.014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10347,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145822705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-24DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2025.12.016
Lieven G.M. Mulders, Kim J. Beek, Jeroen A.W. Tielbeek, Marloes Zwart, Svend T. Rietdijk, Jeroen M. Jansen, Manon E. Wildenberg, Rob A. van Hulst, Jaap Stoker, Willem A. Bemelman, Christianne J. Buskens, Geert R. D’Haens, Krisztina B. Gecse, Jarmila D.W. van der Bilt, Thirza van Croonenburg, Ivan Fung, Melanie Hulshoff, Wouter de Jonge, Milan Ridderikhof, Isabelle van Thiel, Jan Verhoeff, Caroline Verseijden, Roni Weiss, Andrew Li Yim
{"title":"Psychometric Development and Internal Validation of a Short Version of the Crohn’s Anal Fistula Quality of Life Scale","authors":"Lieven G.M. Mulders, Kim J. Beek, Jeroen A.W. Tielbeek, Marloes Zwart, Svend T. Rietdijk, Jeroen M. Jansen, Manon E. Wildenberg, Rob A. van Hulst, Jaap Stoker, Willem A. Bemelman, Christianne J. Buskens, Geert R. D’Haens, Krisztina B. Gecse, Jarmila D.W. van der Bilt, Thirza van Croonenburg, Ivan Fung, Melanie Hulshoff, Wouter de Jonge, Milan Ridderikhof, Isabelle van Thiel, Jan Verhoeff, Caroline Verseijden, Roni Weiss, Andrew Li Yim","doi":"10.1016/j.cgh.2025.12.016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2025.12.016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10347,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145822704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-23DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2025.12.017
Phillip J. Link, Alyssa A. Kerber, Anupama Ravi, Jeffrey A. Alexander, Mariah Robran, Karthik Ravi
{"title":"Baked and Limited Regular Milk is Tolerated in Adults with Milk-Triggered Eosinophilic Esophagitis: A Prospective Pilot Study","authors":"Phillip J. Link, Alyssa A. Kerber, Anupama Ravi, Jeffrey A. Alexander, Mariah Robran, Karthik Ravi","doi":"10.1016/j.cgh.2025.12.017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2025.12.017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10347,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology","volume":"83 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145822706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-23DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2025.12.015
Rena Yadlapati, Lorijane Robles, Mary K. Clarke, Eric E. Low, Erin Walsh, Amanda J. Krause, Alexander Kaizer
{"title":"Randomized Controlled Trial of Upper Esophageal Sphincter Assist Device in Laryngopharyngeal Reflux Disease","authors":"Rena Yadlapati, Lorijane Robles, Mary K. Clarke, Eric E. Low, Erin Walsh, Amanda J. Krause, Alexander Kaizer","doi":"10.1016/j.cgh.2025.12.015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2025.12.015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10347,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology","volume":"161 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145822707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-23DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2025.12.011
Thomas Greuter, Alex Straumann, Andrea Kreienbühl, Sarah Burrack, Ralph Mueller, Luc Biedermann
{"title":"Open-label, phase 2a pilot study evaluating the efficacy and tolerability of topical mesalamine treatment in adult patients with active eosinophilic esophagitis","authors":"Thomas Greuter, Alex Straumann, Andrea Kreienbühl, Sarah Burrack, Ralph Mueller, Luc Biedermann","doi":"10.1016/j.cgh.2025.12.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2025.12.011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10347,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145823701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-22DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2025.12.012
June Tome, Jake M. Bauss, William S. Harmsen, Sahil Khanna, Rondell P. Graham, Darrell S. Pardi
{"title":"Clinical Characteristics and Treatment Outcomes in Patients with Incomplete Microscopic Colitis: Consideration for Expanding the Definition of Microscopic Colitis","authors":"June Tome, Jake M. Bauss, William S. Harmsen, Sahil Khanna, Rondell P. Graham, Darrell S. Pardi","doi":"10.1016/j.cgh.2025.12.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2025.12.012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10347,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145822709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}