A nationwide survey concerning the mortality and risk of progressing severity due to arterial and venous thromboembolism in inflammatory bowel disease in Japan.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The mortality and risk factors of severe disease and death due to arterial and venous thromboembolism (ATE and VTE, respectively) in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) remain unclear, especially in Asia.

Aims

This study aimed to reveal the mortality and risk factors of TE in IBD patients in Japan.

Methods

In the primary surveillance, responses to questionnaires regarding the number of cases of severe TE and TE-associated death in IBD patients in a span of over the past 10 years were obtained from 32 institutions in Japan. In the secondary surveillance, detailed data about IBD patients with TE were collected. The characteristics, laboratory data, therapy status, and situation at the time of TE development were retrospectively collected, and the d

SUBMITTER: Ando K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8604847 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature