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List of works by Mario Cottone

A rare case of ulcerative proctitis associated with type B lymphomatoid papulosis and superimposed human cytomegalovirus infection

scientific article published on 01 July 2012

Adalimumab in steroid-dependent Crohn's disease patients: prognostic factors for clinical benefit

scientific article published on 11 August 2011

Adalimumab induction for Crohn's disease

scientific article published on 01 May 2006

Advanced age is an independent risk factor for severe infections and mortality in patients given anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy for inflammatory bowel disease.

scientific article published on 15 October 2010

Advanced endoscopic imaging for surveillance for dysplasia and colorectal cancer in inflammatory bowel disease: could the pathologist be further helped?

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An open-safety study of dual antiviral therapy in real-world patients with chronic hepatitis C.

scientific article published in November 2010

An unusual presentation of T-lymphoma in a Crohn's disease patient treated with combo therapy: we are willing to take a risk of serious adverse events for a doubtful benefit?

scientific article published on 07 July 2012

Antibiotic treatment of Crohn's disease: results of a multicentre, double blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial with rifaximin.

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Appropriateness of immunosuppressive drugs in inflammatory bowel diseases assessed by RAND method: Italian Group for IBD (IG-IBD) position statement.

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Beclomethasone dipropionate enemas versus prednisolone sodium phosphate enemas in the treatment of distal ulcerative colitis

scientific article published on 01 April 1998

Beclomethasone dipropionate in Crohn's ileitis: a randomised, double-blind trial

scientific article published on 6 January 2011

Budesonide MMX and mesalamine to induce remission in patients with ulcerative colitis

scientific article published on 25 January 2013

Burden of Crohn's disease: economics and quality of life aspects in Italy.

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CA 19-9 to rule out pancreatic or biliary cancer among patients with cholestasis: an unsuitable test?

scientific article published on 07 March 2007

Cancer in Crohn's Disease patients treated with infliximab: a long-term multicenter matched pair study

scientific article published on 01 March 2011

Clinical and endoscopic presentation of primary gastric lymphoma: a multicentre study

scientific article published on 01 March 2006

Clinical course of ulcerative colitis.

scientific article published on July 2008

Clinical implications of mucosal healing in the management of patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

scientific article published on 28 August 2013

Clinical trial: ulcerative colitis maintenance treatment with 5-ASA: a 1-year, randomized multicentre study comparing MMX with Asacol.

scientific article published on 12 August 2009

Comparing medical treatments for Crohn's disease.

scientific article published on March 2013

Complete clinical remission after high-dose immune suppression and autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in severe Crohn's disease refractory to immunosuppressive and immunomodulator therapy

scientific article published on 01 November 2004

Could JC virus provoke metastasis in colon cancer?

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Could growth hormone play a role in Peutz Jeghers syndrome?

scientific article published on 28 August 2013

Crohn's disease: a comparative prospective study of transabdominal ultrasonography, small intestine contrast ultrasonography, and small bowel enema

scientific article published on 01 February 2005

Cyclosporine or infliximab as rescue therapy in severe refractory ulcerative colitis: early and long-term data from a retrospective observational study

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Diagnostic accuracy of fecal calprotectin assay in distinguishing organic causes of chronic diarrhea from irritable bowel syndrome: a prospective study in adults and children

scientific article (publication date: June 2003)

Does glatiramer acetate provoke hepatitis in multiple sclerosis?

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Early post-operative endoscopic recurrence in Crohn's disease patients: data from an Italian Group for the study of inflammatory bowel disease (IG-IBD) study on a large prospective multicenter cohort

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Early postoperative recurrence of severe Crohn's disease, with colonic involvement and associated human cytomegalovirus infection, treated with oral valganciclovir and adalimumab

scientific article published on 21 March 2011

Efficacy and safety of endoscopic balloon dilation of symptomatic intestinal Crohn's disease strictures

scientific article published on 18 June 2010

Epidemiology of Crohn's disease in Sicily: a hospital incidence study from 1987 to 1989. "The Sicilian Study Group of Inflammatory Bowel Disease".

scientific article published in November 1991

Familial aggregation of inflammatory bowel disease in a Mediterranean area

scientific article published on 01 April 1996

Familial association of Crohn's and coeliac diseases

scientific article published on 01 August 1989

Familial mediterranean fever gene (MEVF) mutations in Crohn's disease in a Mediterranean area

scientific article published on 01 September 2008

Familial occurrence of inflammatory bowel disease in celiac disease

scientific article published on 01 September 2003

Fatal necrotising fasciitis associated with intramuscular injection of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs after uncomplicated endoscopic polypectomy

scientific article published on 17 October 2006

Frequency of NOD2/CARD15 variants in both sporadic and familial cases of Crohn's disease across Italy. An Italian Group for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Study.

scientific article published in February 2004

Genome-wide meta-analysis increases to 71 the number of confirmed Crohn's disease susceptibility loci

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Heart failure and anti tumor necrosis factor-alpha in systemic chronic inflammatory diseases.

scientific article published on 18 January 2013

IBD: incidence of HSV and HPV with azathioprine

scientific article published on 01 August 2009

IL-23R determines susceptibility in Crohn's disease in a Mediterranean area

scientific article published on 01 February 2009

Incidence of Crohn's disease and CARD15 mutation in a small township in Sicily

scientific article published on 08 December 2006

Increased risk of pneumonia among patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a comparison between patients treated with biologic therapies and with conventional drugs

scientific article published on 12 June 2013

Infliximab and ulcerative colitis.

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Infliximab for pediatric ulcerative colitis: a retrospective Italian multicenter study.

scientific article published in July 2008

Infliximab in the treatment of Crohn's disease: predictors of response in an Italian multicentric open study

scientific article published on 01 August 2005

Infliximab prevents Crohn's disease recurrence after ileal resection

scientific article published on 01 June 2009

Infliximab to treat Crohn's disease: an update.

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Infliximab, azathioprine or combination therapy in the treatment of active Crohn's disease

scientific article published on December 2010

Intestinal permeability and genetic determinants in patients, first-degree relatives, and controls in a high-incidence area of Crohn's disease in Southern Italy

scientific article published on 01 December 2005

Investigational agents for Crohn's disease

scientific article published on October 1, 2010

Is 5-ASA still the treatment of choice for ulcerative colitis?

scientific article published on September 2011

Is splenectomy a treatment option for aseptic abscesses in patients with Crohn's disease?

scientific article published in November 2009

JC Virus, Helicobacter pylori, and oesophageal achalasia: preliminary results from a retrospective case-control study

scientific article published on 27 December 2012

Leukocytapheresis in patients with moderate-severe steroid-dependant ulcerative colitis: clinical response without endoscopic response

scientific article published on 01 October 2006

Management and long-term follow-up of early stage H. pylori-associated gastric MALT-lymphoma in clinical practice: an Italian, multicentre study

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Marked impact of IL28B genotype in the natural clearance of hepatitis C virus in patients with haemoglobinopathies

scientific article published on 25 May 2011

Medical management of Crohn's disease.

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Mesalamine in the maintenance treatment of Crohn's disease: a meta-analysis adjusted for confounding variables

scientific article published on 01 November 1997

Mesalamine in the prevention of endoscopic recurrence after intestinal resection for Crohn's disease. Italian Cooperative Study Group

scientific article published on 01 February 1995

Mesalazine for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease.

scientific article published on 17 June 2013

Meta-analysis of the placebo rates of clinical relapse and severe endoscopic recurrence in postoperative Crohn's disease.

scientific article published on 03 August 2008

Meta-analysis: remission and response from control arms of randomized trials of biological therapies for active luminal Crohn's disease.

scientific article published on 14 March 2008

Methodology for high-quality studies on course and prognosis of inflammatory bowel disease.

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Minimizing infliximab toxicity in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease

scientific article published on 01 July 2008

Mortality in patients with coeliac disease and their relatives: a cohort study

scientific article published in The Lancet

Multifocal pyoderma gangrenosum resistant to infliximab in active ulcerative colitis: don't forget the role of cyclosporin

scientific article published on 29 October 2011

Natural history of cytomegalovirus infection in a series of patients diagnosed with moderate-severe ulcerative colitis

scientific article published on February 7, 2011

No treatment, resection and ethanol injection in hepatocellular carcinoma: a retrospective analysis of survival in 391 patients with cirrhosis. Italian Cooperative HCC Study Group

scientific article published on 01 May 1995

Occult hepatitis B and infliximab-induced HBV reactivation

scientific article published on 01 April 2007

Optimization of the treatment with immunosuppressants and biologics in inflammatory bowel disease

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Oral and topical 5-aminosalicylic acid (mesalazine) in inducing and maintaining remission in mild-moderate relapse of ulcerative colitis: one-year randomised multicentre trial.

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Oral lichen planus after certolizumab pegol treatment in a patient with Crohn's disease

scientific article published on 18 February 2011

Oral valganciclovir for colonic dilatation in ulcerative colitis associated with human cytomegalovirus infection

scientific article published in May 2010

Over-expression of paneth cell-derived anti-microbial peptides in the gut of patients with ankylosing spondylitis and subclinical intestinal inflammation

scientific article published on 05 August 2010

Postoperative maintenance therapy for inflammatory bowel disease.

scientific article published on July 2006

Prevalence of CARD15/NOD2 mutations in the Sicilian population

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

Prevalence of cytomegalovirus infection in severe refractory ulcerative and Crohn's colitis

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Psychopharmacological Treatment and Psychological Interventions in Irritable Bowel Syndrome

scientific article published on August 22, 2012

Radiofrequency thermal ablation vs. percutaneous ethanol injection for small hepatocellular carcinoma in cirrhosis: meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

scientific article published on 13 January 2009

Regional variations in the use of complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) for inflammatory bowel disease patients in Italy: an IG-IBD study

scientific article published on 18 January 2010

Relationship between site of disease and familial occurrence in Crohn's disease

scientific article published on 01 January 1997

Screening for hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with Child's A cirrhosis: an 8-year prospective study by ultrasound and alphafetoprotein

scientific article published on 01 December 1994

Second European evidence-based consensus on the prevention, diagnosis and management of opportunistic infections in inflammatory bowel disease.

scientific article published on 06 March 2014

Severe acute colitis associated with CMV: a prevalence study

scientific article published on 01 December 2004

Severe cutaneous psoriasis after certolizumab pegol treatment: report of a case

scientific article published in November 2009

Smoking therapy may be an extreme cure in exsmokers with steroid-dependent and resistant ulcerative colitis

scientific article published on 23 February 2011

Successful induction of clinical response and remission with certolizumab pegol in Crohn's disease patients refractory or intolerant to infliximab: a real-life multicenter experience of compassionate use

scientific article published on 01 August 2008

Systematic review: macrophage activation syndrome in inflammatory bowel disease

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The Italian Society of Gastroenterology (SIGE) and the Italian Group for the study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IG-IBD) Clinical Practice Guidelines: The use of tumor necrosis factor-alpha antagonist therapy in inflammatory bowel disease

scientific article published on 16 September 2010

The frame-shift mutation of the NOD2/CARD15 gene is significantly increased in ulcerative colitis: an *IG-IBD study

scientific article published on 01 February 2004

The role of CARD15 mutations and smoking in the course of Crohn's disease in a Mediterranean area

scientific article published on 01 March 2008

The role of portal vein thrombosis in the clinical course of inflammatory bowel diseases: report on three cases and review of the literature

scientific article published on 11 October 2012

Toxic megacolon and human Cytomegalovirus in a series of severe ulcerative colitis patients

scientific article published on 14 March 2015

Transcatheter arterial chemoembolisation for hepatocellular carcinoma in cirrhosis: survival rate and prognostic factors

scientific article published on 13 November 2009

Two mesalazine regimens in the prevention of the post-operative recurrence of Crohn's disease: a pragmatic, double-blind, randomized controlled trial

scientific article published in February 2003

Ultrasonographic and radionuclide detection of hepatocellular carcinoma in cirrhotics with low alpha-fetoprotein levels

scientific article published on 01 December 1984

Ultrasonography and alpha-fetoprotein in diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma in cirrhosis.

scientific article published in January 1988

Unusual perforation after balloon dilation in a Crohn's disease patient: report of a case.

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