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6-Thioguanine therapy in Crohn's disease--observational data in Swedish patients.

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6-Thioguanine treatment in inflammatory bowel disease: a critical appraisal by a European 6-TG working party.

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A systematic survey evaluating 6-thioguanine-related hepatotoxicity in patients with inflammatory bowel disease

scientific article published in January 2007

Abdominal tenderness in ascites patients indicates spontaneous bacterial peritonitis

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Absolute quantification of human liver metabolite concentrations by localized in vivo 31P NMR spectroscopy in diffuse liver disease

scientific article published on 03 September 2004

Acute liver failure in Sweden: etiology and outcome

scientific article published in September 2007

Adverse events leading to modification of therapy in a large cohort of patients with inflammatory bowel disease

scientific article published in July 2006

Air enema radiology compared with leukocyte scintigraphy for imaging inflammation in active ulcerative colitis

scientific article published on 01 January 1995

Analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms in the region of CLDN2-MORC4 in relation to inflammatory bowel disease

scientific article published on August 2013

Anti-lactoferrin antibodies and other types of ANCA in ulcerative colitis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, and Crohn's disease.

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Assessment of thiopurine methyltransferase and metabolite formation during thiopurine therapy: results from a large Swedish patient population

scientific article published in December 2004

Association of NOD2 leucine-rich repeat variants with susceptibility to Crohn's disease

scientific article (publication date: 31 May 2001)

Autoantibodies to C-reactive protein is a common finding in SLE, but not in primary Sjögren's syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis or inflammatory bowel disease

scientific article published on 01 November 2002

Autoimmune hepatitis among fertile women: strategies during pregnancy and breastfeeding?

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Azathioprine as a postoperative prophylaxis reduces symptoms in aggressive Crohn's disease

scientific article published on 01 October 2006

Budd-Chiari syndrome in Sweden: epidemiology, clinical characteristics and survival - an 18-year experience.

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CARD15/NOD2 mutational analysis and genotype-phenotype correlation in 612 patients with inflammatory bowel disease

scientific article published on March 2002

CARD4/NOD1 is not involved in inflammatory bowel disease

scientific article published on January 2003

Cancer risk in patients with hereditary hemochromatosis and in their first-degree relatives

scientific article published in December 2003

Characterisation and utility of thiopurine methyltransferase and thiopurine metabolite measurements in autoimmune hepatitis.

scientific article published on 21 October 2009

Characteristics and long-term outcome of patients with autoimmune hepatitis related to the initial treatment response

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Clonidine in ulcerative colitis and proctitis.

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Clustering of Crohn's disease within affected sibships

scientific article published on 01 February 2003

Combination treatment with 6-mercaptopurine and allopurinol in HepG2 and HEK293 cells - Effects on gene expression levels and thiopurine metabolism

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Concentrations of platelet activating factor in rectal mucosa in patients with ulcerative colitis

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Consistent intensity inhomogeneity correction in water-fat MRI.

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Construction and validation of a web-based epidemiological database for inflammatory bowel diseases in Europe

scientific article published on 02 April 2011

Costs and resource utilization for diagnosis and treatment during the initial year in a European inflammatory bowel disease inception cohort: an ECCO-EpiCom Study

scientific article published in January 2015

Cross-cultural variation in disease-related concerns among patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

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Dense genotyping of immune-related loci identifies HLA variants associated with increased risk of collagenous colitis.

scientific article published on 2 November 2015

Differences between children and adults in thiopurine methyltransferase activity and metabolite formation during thiopurine therapy: possible role of concomitant methotrexate

scientific article published in June 2002

Difficulties and possibilities with thiopurine therapy in inflammatory bowel disease--proceedings of the first Thiopurine Task Force meeting.

scientific article published on 08 October 2010

Discussion of the panorama of injuries associated with karate: potential risks need new attention. Brain infarction in a 18-year-old boy after a karate blow

Do technetium-99m hexamethylpropylene amine oxime-labeled leukocytes truly reflect the mucosal inflammation in patients with ulcerative colitis?

scientific article published on 01 December 1992

Dynamic FDG-PET is useful for detection of cholangiocarcinoma in patients with PSC listed for liver transplantation

scientific article published in December 2006

East-West gradient in the incidence of inflammatory bowel disease in Europe: the ECCO-EpiCom inception cohort.

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Effects of anti-inflammatory therapy on bursting pressure of colonic anastomosis in murine dextran sulfate sodium induced colitis

scientific article published on 10 April 2015

Environmental factors in a population-based inception cohort of inflammatory bowel disease patients in Europe--an ECCO-EpiCom study.

scientific article published on 7 December 2013

Epidemiology and the initial presentation of autoimmune hepatitis in Sweden: A nationwide study

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

Evaluation of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire in Swedish patients with Crohn's disease

scientific article published on 01 August 2006

Evaluation of the RFIPC, a disease-specific health-related quality of life questionnaire, in Swedish patients with ulcerative colitis

scientific article published in December 1997

Explaining TPMT genotype/phenotype discrepancy by haplotyping of TPMT*3A and identification of a novel sequence variant, TPMT*23.

scientific article published in October 2007

FNDC4 acts as an anti-inflammatory factor on macrophages and improves colitis in mice

scientific article published on 12 April 2016

Factors predicting the outcome of disease activity assessment in Crohn's disease

scientific article published on 02 July 2009

Faecal analysis and plasma complement factor 3c levels at admission for an acute attack of ulcerative colitis are predictive of the need for colectomy

scientific article published in March 2014

Gene Expression-Genotype Analysis Implicates GSDMA, GSDMB, and LRRC3C as Contributors to Inflammatory Bowel Disease Susceptibility

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Gene expression and thiopurine metabolite profiling in inflammatory bowel disease - novel clues to drug targets and disease mechanisms?

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Genetic Variation and Gene Expression Levels of Tight Junction Genes Indicates Relationships Between PTEN as well as MAGI1 and Microscopic Colitis

scientific article published on 4 December 2017

Genetic analyses of chromosome 12 loci in Crohn's disease.

scientific article published in December 2000

Genetic refinement and physical mapping of a chromosome 16q candidate region for inflammatory bowel disease

scientific article published on 01 October 2001

Genetic variation and expression levels of tight junction genes identifies association between MAGI3 and inflammatory bowel disease

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Health care and patients' education in a European inflammatory bowel disease inception cohort: an ECCO-EpiCom study

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Health check-ups and family screening allow detection of hereditary hemochromatosis with less advanced liver fibrosis and survival comparable with the general population

scientific article published on 15 June 2011

Health-related quality of life improves during one year of medical and surgical treatment in a European population-based inception cohort of patients with inflammatory bowel disease--an ECCO-EpiCom study.

scientific article published on 21 February 2014

Health-related quality of life in Swedish patients with ulcerative colitis

scientific article published in November 1998

Hepatic and extrahepatic malignancies in autoimmune hepatitis. A long-term follow-up in 473 Swedish patients

scientific article published on 06 November 2008

Hepatic and extrahepatic malignancies in primary sclerosing cholangitis

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Hepatocellular and extrahepatic cancer in patients with autoimmune hepatitis--a long-term follow-up study in 634 Swedish patients

scientific article published on 8 December 2014

Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) in fecal samples: rapid detection by surface plasmon resonance

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High hepatocyte growth factor levels in faeces during acute infectious gastroenteritis

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

High prevalence of autoantibodies to C-reactive protein in patients with chronic hepatitis C infection: association with liver fibrosis and portal inflammation.

scientific article published on February 2012

High prevalence of small duct primary sclerosing cholangitis among patients with overlapping autoimmune hepatitis and primary sclerosing cholangitis

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How should thiopurine treatment be monitored?--methodological aspects

scientific article published in June 2010

IMPDH activity in thiopurine-treated patients with inflammatory bowel disease - relation to TPMT activity and metabolite concentrations

scientific article published on 27 July 2007

Identification of two novel sequence variants affecting thiopurine methyltransferase enzyme activity

scientific article published in April 2004

Incidence and prevalence rates in Budd-Chiari syndrome

scientific article published on 01 June 2009

Increased Risk of Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis and Ulcerative Colitis in First-Degree Relatives of Patients With Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis

scientific article published on 01 August 2008

Increased absorption of polyethylene glycol 600 deposited in the colon in active ulcerative colitis.

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Increased mortality risk in patients with phenotypic hereditary hemochromatosis but not in their first-degree relatives

scientific article published on 18 July 2009

Increased thrombin generation in splanchnic vein thrombosis is related to the presence of liver cirrhosis and not to the thrombotic event.

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Infliximab as rescue therapy in hospitalised patients with steroid-refractory acute ulcerative colitis: a long-term follow-up of 211 Swedish patients.

scientific article published on 25 June 2013

Initial disease course and treatment in an inflammatory bowel disease inception cohort in Europe: the ECCO-EpiCom cohort.

scientific article published in January 2014

Interleukin 34: a new modulator of human and experimental inflammatory bowel disease

scientific article published on August 2015

Is computer-aided interpretation of 99Tcm-HMPAO leukocyte scans better than the naked eye?

scientific article published on 01 April 1995

Labelling of leucocytes with technetium-99m exametazime causes in vitro upregulation of granulocyte CD11b without correlation to tissue uptake in vivo.

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Letter: successful mercaptopurine therapy after azathioprine-related pancreatitis in patients with IBD - authors' reply

scientific article published on 01 January 2013

Leukocyte scintigraphy compared to intraoperative small bowel enteroscopy and laparotomy findings in Crohn's disease

scientific article published on 01 February 2007

Leukocyte scintigraphy, endoscopy, airway x-ray. New methods for the diagnosis of colitis and Crohn disease

scientific article published on February 25, 1998

Long-term effectiveness of vedolizumab in inflammatory bowel disease: a national study based on the Swedish National Quality Registry for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (SWIBREG).

scientific article published on 31 March 2017

Long-term outcome of infliximab treatment in chronic active ulcerative colitis: a Swedish multicentre study of 250 patients

scientific article published on 27 December 2016

Low symptomatic load in Crohn's disease with surgery and medicine as complementary treatments.

scientific article published in April 1998

Moderate hyperkalemia in hospitalized patients with cirrhotic ascites indicates a poor prognosis

scientific article published on 8 January 2013

Monitoring of thiopurine metabolites - a high-performance liquid chromatography method for clinical use.

scientific article published on 27 November 2012

Monitoring of thiopurine metabolites in patients with inflammatory bowel disease-what is actually measured?

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Mycophenolate mofetil in Crohn's disease

scientific article published on 01 July 2000

Mycophenolate mofetil treatment in patients with autoimmune hepatitis failing standard therapy with prednisolone and azathioprine

scientific article published on 12 October 2018

Natural history and outcome in 32 Swedish patients with small duct primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC).

scientific article published in May 2002

No induction of thiopurine methyltransferase during thiopurine treatment in inflammatory bowel disease

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

Nod2 deficiency protects mice from cholestatic liver disease by increasing renal excretion of bile acids

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Novel assay to improve therapeutic drug monitoring of thiopurines in inflammatory bowel disease.

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Novel strategies in the thiopurine treatment of inflammatory bowel disease.

scientific article published on June 2010

Occurrence of anaemia in the first year of inflammatory bowel disease in a European population-based inception cohort - An ECCO-EpiCom study

scientific article published on 31 May 2017

Patient Age, Sex, and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Phenotype Associate With Course of Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis

scientific article published on 5 March 2017

Perianal Crohn's disease (Br J Surg 2004; 91: 801-814)

scientific article published on 01 October 2004

Perinuclear anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody and refractory pouchitis. A case-control study

scientific article published on September 1995

Pharmacogenetics during standardised initiation of thiopurine treatment in inflammatory bowel disease

scientific article published on 16 March 2006

Pharmacokinetics of tranexamic acid in patients with ulcerative colitis and in healthy volunteers after the single instillation of 2 g rectally

scientific article published on 01 January 1992

Phospholipase A2 activity of colonic mucosa in patients with ulcerative colitis.

scientific article published on January 1991

Plain X-ray films and air enema films reflect severe mucosal inflammation in acute ulcerative colitis

scientific article published on 01 January 1995

Pregnancy and childbirth in women with autoimmune hepatitis is safe, even in compensated cirrhosis

scientific article published on 03 December 2015

Pyrosequencing of TPMT alleles in a general Swedish population and in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

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Quality of the data in a patient registry

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RIP2 polymorphisms in inflammatory bowel diseases.

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Rapid weight gain in infliximab treated Crohn's disease patients is sustained over time: real-life data over 12 months

scientific article published on 27 October 2020

Real-time RT-PCR methodology for quantification of thiopurine methyltransferase gene expression

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Receptor-Type Protein-Tyrosine Phosphatase ζ and Colony Stimulating Factor-1 Receptor in the Intestine: Cellular Expression and Cytokine- and Chemokine Responses by Interleukin-34 and Colony Stimulating Factor-1.

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Resequencing of positional candidates identifies low frequency IL23R coding variants protecting against inflammatory bowel disease

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Resistin is associated with breach of tolerance and anti-nuclear antibodies in patients with hepatobiliary inflammation

scientific article published on 01 November 2011

Resource use and societal costs for Crohn's disease in Sweden

scientific article published on 30 April 2009

Retrograde distribution of a new 5-aminosalicylic acid enema in patients with ulcerative colitis

scientific article published on 01 January 1992

Separation of advanced from mild fibrosis in diffuse liver disease using 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy

scientific article published on 23 July 2007

Separation of advanced from mild hepatic fibrosis by quantification of the hepatobiliary uptake of Gd-EOB-DTPA.

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Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in MORC4, CD14, and TLR4 Are Related to Outcome of Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation

scientific article published on 31 January 2016

Stability of faecal hepatocyte growth factor determination

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

Steady-state pharmacokinetics of a new 4-gram 5-aminosalicylic acid retention enema in patients with ulcerative colitis in remission

scientific article published in March 1991

Stromal Hedgehog signalling is downregulated in colon cancer and its restoration restrains tumour growth

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Systemic Chemokine Levels with "Gut-Specific" Vedolizumab in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease-A Pilot Study

scientific article published on 22 August 2017

TNFSF15 polymorphisms are associated with susceptibility to inflammatory bowel disease in a new European cohort

scientific article published on 13 January 2009

Technology assessment using the association between outcome measures and patterns of illness severity

scientific article published on 01 July 1997

The AST/ALT ratio as an indicator of cirrhosis in patients with PBC.

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The Short Health Scale: a valid measure of subjective health in ulcerative colitis

scientific article published in October 2006

The epidemiology and clinical features of portal vein thrombosis: a multicentre study

scientific article published on 15 September 2010

The influence of demographic and disease-related factors on health-related quality of life in patients with ulcerative colitis

scientific article published on 01 September 2003

The network: a strategy to describe the relationship between quality of life and disease activity. The case of inflammatory bowel disease.

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The role of inosine-5'-monophosphate dehydrogenase in thiopurine metabolism in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

scientific article published in April 2011

Thiopurine therapy is associated with postoperative intra-abdominal septic complications in abdominal surgery for Crohn's disease.

scientific article published in August 2009

Transitions between variant forms of primary biliary cirrhosis during long-term follow-up.

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Treatment of anaemia in inflammatory bowel disease with iron sucrose

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Unfavourable outcome for women in a study of health-related quality of life, social factors and work disability in Crohn's disease

scientific article published in August 2011

Upregulation of granulocyte CD11b (CR 3) after labelling with technetium-99m hexamethylpropylene amine oxime

scientific article published on 01 September 1995

Use of air enema radiography to assess depth of ulceration during acute attacks of ulcerative colitis

scientific article published on 01 June 1996

Use of complementary and alternative medicine in Swedish patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a controlled study

scientific article published on 28 July 2016

Validation of the inflammatory bowel disease questionnaire in Swedish patients with ulcerative colitis

scientific article published in January 2001

Visual assessment of biliary excretion of Gd-EOB-DTPA in patients with suspected diffuse liver disease - A biopsy-verified prospective study

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Worries and concerns in a large unselected cohort of patients with Crohn's disease

scientific article published in June 2010

[Acute liver failure--rapid multidisciplinary management]

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

[Cerebral infarction following a karate fight]

scientific article published on 01 December 1985

[Clostridium difficile enteritis complicated by symphysitis. Good effect of fecal streptococci]

scientific article published on 01 May 1993

[Current drug therapy in Crohn disease--national guidelines]

scientific article published on 01 November 2009

[Genetic breakthrough in inflammatory bowel disease]

scientific article published on 01 June 2001

[Management of severe attack of ulcerative colitis]

scientific article published on 01 November 2009

[New knowledge of heredity in inflammatory bowel disease. Specific gene mapping in a EU-project]

scientific article published on 01 August 1998

[Obscure symptoms complicate the diagnosis of brain abscess]

scientific article published on 01 May 1982

[Oral contraceptives and blood diseases are the most common causes of Budd-Chiari syndrome]

scientific article published on 01 November 1989

[The usefulness of pharmacogenetics for a more individualized treatment. The example thiopurines in inflammatory bowel disease and childhood leukemia]

scientific article published on 30 June 2015