Shotaro Umezawa
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View article: P780 Prognosis and optimal treatment for 5-aminosalicylic acid-intolerant patients with Ulcerative Colitis
P780 Prognosis and optimal treatment for 5-aminosalicylic acid-intolerant patients with Ulcerative Colitis Open
Background 5-aminosalicylic acid (5-ASA) is widely used as a first-line treatment for ulcerative colitis (UC), but intolerance sometimes occurs. 5-ASA-intolerance was considered a risk factor for colectomy in UC patients, but no reports ha…
View article: P183 Development of a new simple ultrasound activity score for intestinal Behçet's Disease
P183 Development of a new simple ultrasound activity score for intestinal Behçet's Disease Open
Background Intestinal Behçet's disease (BD) is a relapsing-remitting disease typically associated with punched-out ulcers in the ileocecal region. Optimal monitoring of disease activity is necessary; however, ileocolonoscopy cannot be perf…
View article: Chemoprevention of colorectal cancer: Past, present, and future
Chemoprevention of colorectal cancer: Past, present, and future Open
Chemoprevention began to be considered as a potential strategy for lowering the incidence of cancer and cancer‐related deaths in the 1970s. For clinical chemoprevention trials against cancer, including colorectal cancer ( CRC ), well‐estab…
View article: A Patient with KL-6 Elevation with Anti-TNFα Who Could Receive Long-Term Use without Interstitial Pneumonia after Class Switch of Anti-TNFα
A Patient with KL-6 Elevation with Anti-TNFα Who Could Receive Long-Term Use without Interstitial Pneumonia after Class Switch of Anti-TNFα Open
A 40-year-old man with refractory ulcerative colitis (UC) was treated with tumor necrosis factor α inhibitor (anti-TNFα), infliximab. One month later, the chest computed tomography and laboratory test showed noninfectious interstitial lung…
View article: Patients with colorectal cancer have identical strains of <i>Fusobacterium nucleatum</i> in their colorectal cancer and oral cavity
Patients with colorectal cancer have identical strains of <i>Fusobacterium nucleatum</i> in their colorectal cancer and oral cavity Open
Figure 1 Detection of Fusobacterium nucleatum subspecies in paired colorectal cancer and saliva samples.(A) Schematic of the experimental procedures.AP-PCR, arbitrarily primed PCR; CRC, colorectal cancer; Fn, Fusobacterium nucleatum.
View article: Anorectal condyloma acuminatum diagnosed by image enhanced endoscopy, treated by endoscopic submucosal dissection
Anorectal condyloma acuminatum diagnosed by image enhanced endoscopy, treated by endoscopic submucosal dissection Open
A 75-year-old man with the chief complaint of blood stool underwent a total colonoscopy, which revealed a flat elevation spreading in the anal canal and the lower portion of the rectum. It showed non-uniform expanded blood vessels in the s…
View article: Visual distraction alone for the improvement of colonoscopy-related pain and satisfaction
Visual distraction alone for the improvement of colonoscopy-related pain and satisfaction Open
Visual distraction alone improves satisfaction in patients undergoing colonoscopy and decreases anxiety and pain during the procedure among patients with a high pre-procedural anxiety score.