Characterization of Inflammatory Bowel Disease With Urinary Metabolic Profiling

• Published in: The American journal of gastroenterology Vol. 104; no. 6; pp. 1435 - 1444
• Main Authors: Williams, Horace R T, Cox, I Jane, Walker, David G, North, Bernard V, Patel, Venisha M, Marshall, Sara E, Jewell, Derek P, Ghosh, Subrata, Thomas, Huw J W, Teare, Julian P, Jakobovits, Simon, Zeki, Sebastian, Welsh, Kenneth I, Taylor-Robinson, Simon D, Orchard, Timothy R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wolters Kluwer Health Medical Research, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 01.06.2009
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Biomarkers - urine; Colitis, Ulcerative - urine; Cresols - urine; Crohn Disease - urine; Female; Formates - urine; Gastroenterology; Hippurates - urine; Humans; Inflammatory bowel disease; Inflammatory Bowel Diseases - urine; Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; Male; Middle Aged; Prognosis; Sulfuric Acid Esters - urine; Young Adult

Distinguishing between the inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), Crohn's disease (CD), and ulcerative colitis (UC) is important for both management and prognostic reasons. Discrimination using noninvasive techniques could be an adjunct to conventional diagnostics. Differences have been shown betwee...