The Healthy Endoscopy Study
Inflammatory Bowel DiseasesFunctional Gastrointestinal DisordersResearchers at Seattle Children's Research Institute want to find ways to understand gastrointestinal disease such as Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Graft-Versus-Host-Disease (GVHD). We want to compare healthy cells from the gastrointestinal tract to cells from people with gastrointestinal diseases. The investigators are looking for healthy participants 18-25 with no gastrointestinal symptoms to volunteer to have an upper and lower endoscopy and to collect blood and stool samples. The investigators hope the information gathered in this study will help to better predict and treat these diseases in the future. Participants who join the study will complete the following activities: 1 hour appointment at Seattle Children's Hospital to determine eligibility Blood Draw Upper and Lower Endoscopy with tissue biopsies Stool Sample collection Participants will get $600 to thank them for their time. Participants may be eligible for this study if they meet the following requirements: 18 -25 years of age Do not have any abdominal symptoms (vomiting, diarrhea or abdominal pain) Are not on any medications (vitamins and birth control are OK) Have a BMI (body mass index) between 20-25 kg/m^2 Please note: Interested participants will have a 30 minute phone call with the study team and subsequent 1 hour appointment at Seattle Children's to determine if they meet all of the eligibility criteria.
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and Covid-19 Infection
Inflammatory Bowel DiseaseMost of the inflammatory bowel disease (IBD: Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis) in a tertiary expert Centre are on immunosuppressive and/or biological therapy. Theoretically, these treatments may increase patients' risk of infection, in particular viral infection. Therefore, the current SARS-Cov-2 pandemia, with its unprecedent worldwide morbidity and mortality, may have a negative impact on IBD patients' clinical course. Identifying an increased risk in this particular patients' population as well as the risk/protective factors is of outstanding importance, in order to adapt their treatment and surveillance. As a consequence, our aims were (i) to measure retrospectively the risk of SARS-CoV-2 (proven by biological testing or suspected due to record of potential clinical symptoms of COVID-19 infection) in this patients' cohort (principal objective), (ii) to identify risk or protective factors for SARS-CoV-2 infection in IBD, and (iii) to analyze the outcome of patients in case of suspected or confirmed COVID-19. The results of this study may be important to adjust our surveillance and therapeutic strategy in these patients, in particular if high virus circulation will occur in the future.
The Prevelance of Pulmonary Manifestation in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease
The Prevelance and Complications of Pulmonary Manifestations in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel DiseaseBronchopulmonary manifestations signs and symptoms are variable extraintestinal manifestations of IBD.
Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Inflammatory Bowel DiseasesDetection of Inflammatory Bowel Disease activity by Using new measure : Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio
Development of a Questionnaire Based on Patients' Messages on an Internet Forum for Flare Detection...
Inflammatory Bowel DiseasesCrohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, the two major forms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are chronic disabling conditions characterized by flares followed by periods of remission. However, IBD patients are seen every 3 to 6 months in the outpatient clinic, and the occurrence of a flare between two outpatient visits is not captured. In the current state of knowledge, there is no validated patient-reported outcome (PRO) tool to measure the phenomenon of flare in IBD. This study aimed to use an innovative methodology to collect messages posted by patients in an Internet forum for developing and validating a PRO measuring flare in IBD. The design involves 1) Engineering sciences for scraping extraction of messages posted in an Internet forum and for Identification of messages related to flare, 2) Qualitative methods for thematic content analyze of the messages posted, for candidate items generation, for items selection (Delphi process) and for items adjustment ("think aloud" interviews), 3) Quantitative methods for psychometric validation of the PRO.
The PRECIOUS Study: Predicting Crohn's & ColitIs Outcomes in the United States
Crohn DiseaseUlcerative Colitis2 moreA multi-center observational study based at referral centers and community hospitals within the US. Patients' blood will be collected at enrollment for testing with PredictSURE IBD™, which will occur at a later date. Patients will be prospectively followed up for 12 months with clinicians treating according to local standard of care, with a step-up or accelerated step-up regimen. Clinicians and patients will be blinded to the biomarker results.
Intestinal Microbiota and Colorectal Cancer in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Inflammatory Bowel DiseaseColorectal CancerBuild a collection of fecal microbiota in order to determine the characteristics of gut microbiota associated with colorectal cancer in Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
Individualized Infiximab Dosing-Proof of Concept Study
Inflammatory Bowel DiseasesThe purpose of this study is to determine which early infliximab pharmacokinetic level is most associated with clinical remission at weeks 30 and 54 in pediatric IBD patients.
FMT in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Faecal Microbiota TransplantationCrohn Disease2 moreThis is a prospective observational cohort study, over 52 weeks, evaluating the the use of faecal microbiota transplantation amongst patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Microscopic Colitis
SSAT 054: Non Genetic Factors in the Pathogenesis of IBD in Twins
Inflammatory Bowel DiseaseCrohn's Disease1 moreThis study aims to investigate the role of non-genetic factors in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease.An exploratory study to investigate differences between the epigenome, microbiota and functional immunology in twins discordant for inflammatory bowel disease.