Simplified Histologic Mucosal Healing Scheme (SHMHS) for inflammatory bowel disease: a nationwide multicenter study of performance and applicability.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Assessment of mucosal healing is important for the management of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), but endoscopy can miss microscopic disease areas that may relapse. Histological assessment is informative, but no single scoring system is widely adopted. We previously proposed an eight-item histological scheme for the easy, fast reporting of disease activity in the intestine. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the performance of our Simplified Histologic Mucosal Healing Scheme (SHMHS).

Methods

Between April and May 2021 pathologists and gastroenterologists in Italy were invited to contribute to this multicenter study by providing data on single endoscopic-histological examinations for their IBD patients undergoing treatment. Disease activity

SUBMITTER: Caputo A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9360061 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature