{"title":"Correction to: Screen Failures and Causes in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Randomized Controlled Trials: A Study of 16 913 Screened Patients.","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/ibd/izaf134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ibd/izaf134","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13623,"journal":{"name":"Inflammatory Bowel Diseases","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144301997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Clotylde Dumas, Nicolas Macagno, Laura Beyer-Berjot
{"title":"Can One Disease Hide Another?","authors":"Clotylde Dumas, Nicolas Macagno, Laura Beyer-Berjot","doi":"10.1093/ibd/izaf123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ibd/izaf123","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13623,"journal":{"name":"Inflammatory Bowel Diseases","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144301996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emily C L Wong, Parambir S Dulai, John K Marshall, Vipul Jairath, Walter Reinisch, Neeraj Narula
{"title":"Comparative Predictive Utility of MM-SES-CD and SES-CD for Week 52 Endoscopic Remission in the Ileum and Colon in Crohn's Disease.","authors":"Emily C L Wong, Parambir S Dulai, John K Marshall, Vipul Jairath, Walter Reinisch, Neeraj Narula","doi":"10.1093/ibd/izaf124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ibd/izaf124","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The Simple Endoscopic Score for Crohn's disease (SES-CD) and Modified Multiplier of the SES-CD (MM-SES-CD) are endoscopic scoring systems used to assess disease severity and response to therapy in CD. This study evaluates their utility at baseline in predicting endoscopic remission (ER) of the ileum and colon at week 52.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This post-hoc analysis of 4 clinical trials (CT-P13, UNITI, EXTEND, and SEAVUE) compared baseline scores and ER outcomes at week 52 using the SES-CD and MM-SES-CD. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) for each scoring system's ability to predict week 52 ER defined by various thresholds was compared.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 667 patients were included in this analysis. At baseline, the median SES-CD score was 8.5 (IQR 5.0-15.7), and the median MM-SES-CD score was 34.8 (IQR 27.5-50.0). MM-SES-CD demonstrated consistently higher AUC values compared to SES-CD across most endpoints in ileal and colonic disease involvement. Among 519 patients with any disease in the ileum, baseline MM-SES-CD demonstrated significantly better predictive accuracy than SES-CD for week 52 SES-CD < 3 [AUC 0.75 (95% CI: 0.71-0.80) vs. 0.64 (95% CI: 0.59-0.70), P = .031]. Similar findings were observed for other definitions of ER. Among 552 participants with colonic disease involvement, baseline MM-SES-CD also demonstrated significantly greater accuracy for predicting week 52 SES-CD < 3 [AUC 0.78 (95% CI: 0.73-0.82) vs. 0.62 (95% CI: 0.57-0.66), P = .002], with similar findings across other definitions of ER assessed. Similar trends were observed across isolated ileal, ileocolonic, and isolated colonic disease.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The baseline MM-SES-CD demonstrated superior predictive ability for week 52 ER compared to SES-CD across the ileum and colon. These findings support its utility in clinical trials and in routine practice for predicting long-term treatment response.</p>","PeriodicalId":13623,"journal":{"name":"Inflammatory Bowel Diseases","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144309827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marie Meima, Joost Westerhout, Marjolein Meijerink, Sabina Bijlsma, Fiona van Schaik, Bas Oldenburg, Geert Houben
{"title":"Food Compounds Associated With Disease Activity in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.","authors":"Marie Meima, Joost Westerhout, Marjolein Meijerink, Sabina Bijlsma, Fiona van Schaik, Bas Oldenburg, Geert Houben","doi":"10.1093/ibd/izaf126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ibd/izaf126","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Diet plays a modulatory role in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), but specific relevant dietary factors have yet to be identified. To advance our understanding, we performed multivariate analyses of food compound intakes using dietary data from an IBD cohort.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We used dietary and disease status data from IBD patients at the University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands. Intake levels for 768 compounds from 135 patients were calculated. Using random forest analyses, we explored associations between compound intake and IBD activity by comparing patients who experienced flares (n = 41) with those who remained in remission during follow-up. We assessed the potential biological relevance of the most significant compounds (n = 35) by examining literature on IBD, gut health, or immunomodulation.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Random forest models showed specificities and negative predictive values up to 77% and 79%, respectively. The intakes of the 35 top-ranked compounds were primarily positively associated with IBD remission (n = 29). Most of these were fatty acids (n = 24). Other compounds positively associated with remission were 4-hydroxyproline, ethanol, vanillin, heptadecanoyl carnitine, and haem iron. For 11 of the 35 compounds, unambiguous effects on IBD or the gut were available in literature, with 7 of these compounds being consistent with our findings. For 11 compounds, immunomodulatory effects were reported in literature. Thirteen compounds lacked relevant literature on effects, highlighting them as candidates for further research.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>We identified several compounds that may play a modulatory role in IBD. Further research is needed to clarify associations found in our study and validate their biological significance.</p>","PeriodicalId":13623,"journal":{"name":"Inflammatory Bowel Diseases","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144309829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Role for Leucine-Rich α2-Glycoprotein in Leukocyte Trafficking and Mucosal Inflammation in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.","authors":"Takashi Mishima, Minoru Fujimoto, Hayato Urushima, Eiji Funajima, Yuji Suzuki, Tomoharu Ohkawara, Okinori Murata, Satoshi Serada, Tetsuji Naka","doi":"10.1093/ibd/izaf022","DOIUrl":"10.1093/ibd/izaf022","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Leucine-rich α2-glycoprotein (LRG) has been identified as a disease activity marker that reflects pathology of inflammatory diseases including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Whereas LRG was reported to modulate transforming growth factor beta-1 (TGF-β) signaling, the role of LRG in inflammatory diseases has not been fully clarified. Here we investigated the role of LRG in IBD.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>First, we investigated the difference of pathologies between wild-type (WT) mice and LRG-deficient (LRG-/-) mice in dextran sodium sulfate (DSS)-induced experimental colitis. Next, we analyzed the role of LRG in colonic inflammation by using in vitro assay.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Prompt LRG upregulation was detected on the colonic epithelial cells on day 1 post 3% DSS treatment. Body weight loss after DSS treatment was significantly less severe in LRG-/- mice than in WT mice. Histological examination disclosed that leukocyte infiltration in colonic tissue was attenuated in LRG-/- mice compared with WT mice on day 3. Interestingly, the expression of endoglin, one of adhesion molecules in vascular endothelial cells, was markedly elevated in WT mice on day 1 post-DSS treatment, but was not in LRG-/- mice. Anti-TGF-β antibody treatment in mice with DSS colitis revealed that TGF-β is critical for endoglin upregulation in endothelial cells. Importantly, recombinant LRG when added to the culture media enhanced TGF-β1-induced endoglin expression in endothelial cells and increased adherence of monocytes to endothelial cells.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our data suggest that LRG accelerates the progression of colonic inflammation at least in part by enhancing leukocyte trafficking through the upregulation of TGF-β1-induced endoglin expression in vascular endothelial cells.</p>","PeriodicalId":13623,"journal":{"name":"Inflammatory Bowel Diseases","volume":" ","pages":"1637-1648"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143364582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Florence-Damilola Odufalu, Sarah Gonzalez, Arielle Carolina Mora Hurtado, Jennifer Hsiao, Mimi Xu, Nada Elbuluk
{"title":"A Review of Cutaneous Extraintestinal Manifestations of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Skin of Color.","authors":"Florence-Damilola Odufalu, Sarah Gonzalez, Arielle Carolina Mora Hurtado, Jennifer Hsiao, Mimi Xu, Nada Elbuluk","doi":"10.1093/ibd/izae222","DOIUrl":"10.1093/ibd/izae222","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The incidence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is increasing in racial and ethnic minority groups. Cutaneous extraintestinal manifestations (EIMs) of IBD are well-known comorbid conditions that can occur in both active and quiescent IBD. Historically, cutaneous EIMs of IBD are described in White skin with a lack of literature describing these conditions in darker skin tones. This potentially creates a knowledge gap and awareness among providers in recognizing these conditions and offering therapy in a timely manner to non-White patients. This review aims to describe the cutaneous manifestations of IBD in a wide range of skin tones with several examples to improve awareness. With further awareness, this review will enable to provide equitable care to IBD patients with cutaneous EIMs.</p>","PeriodicalId":13623,"journal":{"name":"Inflammatory Bowel Diseases","volume":" ","pages":"1702-1715"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142345983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ria Minawala, Michelle Kim, Olivia Delau, Ghoncheh Ghiasian, Anna Sophia McKenney, Andre Da Luz Moreira, Joshua Chodosh, Mara McAdams-DeMarco, Dorry L Segev, Samrachana Adhikari, John Dodson, Aasma Shaukat, Bari Dane, Adam S Faye
{"title":"Sarcopenia Is a Risk Factor for Postoperative Complications Among Older Adults With Inflammatory Bowel Disease.","authors":"Ria Minawala, Michelle Kim, Olivia Delau, Ghoncheh Ghiasian, Anna Sophia McKenney, Andre Da Luz Moreira, Joshua Chodosh, Mara McAdams-DeMarco, Dorry L Segev, Samrachana Adhikari, John Dodson, Aasma Shaukat, Bari Dane, Adam S Faye","doi":"10.1093/ibd/izae187","DOIUrl":"10.1093/ibd/izae187","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Sarcopenia has been associated with adverse postoperative outcomes in older age cohorts, but has not been assessed in older adults with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Further, current assessments of sarcopenia among all aged individuals with IBD have used various measures of muscle mass as well as cutoffs to define its presence, leading to heterogeneous findings.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In this single-institution, multihospital retrospective study, we identified all patients aged 60 years and older with IBD who underwent disease-related intestinal resection between 2012 and 2022. Skeletal Muscle Index (SMI) and Total Psoas Index (TPI) were measured at the superior L3 endplate on preoperative computed tomography scans and compared through receiver operating characteristic curve. We then performed multivariable logistic regression to assess risk factors associated with an adverse 30-day postoperative outcome. Our primary outcome included a 30-day composite of postoperative mortality and complications, including infection, bleeding, cardiac event, cerebrovascular accident, acute kidney injury, venous thromboembolism, reoperation, all-cause rehospitalization, and need for intensive care unit-level care.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 120 individuals were included. Overall, 52% were female, 40% had ulcerative colitis, 60% had Crohn's disease, and median age at time of surgery was 70 years (interquartile range: 65-75). Forty percent of older adults had an adverse 30-day postoperative outcome, including infection (23%), readmission (17%), acute kidney injury (13%), bleeding (13%), intensive care unit admission (10%), cardiac event (8%), venous thromboembolism (7%), reoperation (6%), mortality (5%), and cerebrovascular accident (2%). When evaluating the predictive performance of SMI vs TPI for an adverse 30-day postoperative event, SMI had a significantly higher area under the curve of 0.66 (95% CI, 0.56-0.76) as compared to 0.58 (95% CI, 0.48-0.69) for TPI (P = .02). On multivariable logistic regression, prior IBD-related surgery (adjusted odds ratio [adjOR] 6.46, 95% CI, 1.85-22.51) and preoperative sepsis (adjOR 5.74, 95% CI, 1.36-24.17) significantly increased the odds of adverse postoperative outcomes, whereas increasing SMI was associated with a decreased risk of an adverse postoperative outcome (adjOR 0.88, 95% CI, 0.82-0.94).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Sarcopenia, as measured by SMI, is associated with an increased risk of postoperative complications among older adults with IBD. Measurement of SMI from preoperative imaging can help risk stratify older adults with IBD undergoing intestinal resection.</p>","PeriodicalId":13623,"journal":{"name":"Inflammatory Bowel Diseases","volume":" ","pages":"1537-1547"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142035792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alessandro Armuzzi, David T Rubin, Stefan Schreiber, Julian Panés, Marc Fellmann, Lauren Bartolome, David Gruben, Martina Goetsch, Abhishek Bhattacharjee, María Chaparro, Marla C Dubinsky
{"title":"Health-Related Quality of Life Outcomes With Etrasimod Treatment in Patients With Ulcerative Colitis: A Post Hoc Analysis of Data From ELEVATE UC 52 and ELEVATE UC 12.","authors":"Alessandro Armuzzi, David T Rubin, Stefan Schreiber, Julian Panés, Marc Fellmann, Lauren Bartolome, David Gruben, Martina Goetsch, Abhishek Bhattacharjee, María Chaparro, Marla C Dubinsky","doi":"10.1093/ibd/izae229","DOIUrl":"10.1093/ibd/izae229","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Etrasimod is an oral, once-daily (QD), selective sphingosine 1-phosphate1,4,5 receptor modulator for the treatment of moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis (UC). Here, we evaluate the impact of etrasimod 2 mg QD on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with UC.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This post hoc analysis used data from the Phase 3 randomized controlled trials, ELEVATE UC 52 and ELEVATE UC 12. HRQoL measures included: Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire (IBDQ), 36-Item Short Form Survey (SF-36), and Work Productivity and Activity Impairment Questionnaire: Ulcerative Colitis (WPAI:UC) completed at baseline, Week 12 (both trials), and Week 52 (ELEVATE UC 52 only). For IBDQ analyses, patients were stratified by prior exposure to biologics/Janus kinase inhibitors (JAKi) and baseline modified Mayo score (MMS; 4-6 or 7-9).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Generally, significantly greater proportions of patients receiving etrasimod (N = 527) vs placebo (N = 260) achieved IBDQ remission (IBDQ total score ≥170) and IBDQ response (IBDQ total score increase from baseline ≥16), with significant improvement in all IBDQ domain scores at Week 12 and maintained through Week 52. Significant differences in IBDQ remission and IBDQ response rates between etrasimod and placebo were more consistent among biologic/JAKi-naive patients vs those who were biologic/JAKi-experienced and in those with baseline MMS 7-9 vs 4-6. Significant improvements were observed in several SF-36 domain and summary scores and WPAI:UC domain scores at Week 12 and Week 52.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Etrasimod 2 mg QD demonstrated significant and clinically meaningful improvements across multiple HRQoL measures, including WPAI, vs placebo.</p><p><strong>Clinical trial registration: </strong>ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT03945188; NCT03996369.</p>","PeriodicalId":13623,"journal":{"name":"Inflammatory Bowel Diseases","volume":" ","pages":"1583-1594"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12166301/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142345987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Animesh Acharjee, Uday Shivaji, Giovanni Santacroce, Sarah Akiror, Louisa Jeffery, Csilla Varnai, Gary Reynolds, Davide Zardo, Snehali Majumder, Asma Amamou, Georgios V Gkoutos, Marietta Iacucci, Subrata Ghosh
{"title":"Novel Transcriptomic Signatures in Fibrostenotic Crohn's Disease: Dysregulated Pathways, Promising Biomarkers, and Putative Therapeutic Targets.","authors":"Animesh Acharjee, Uday Shivaji, Giovanni Santacroce, Sarah Akiror, Louisa Jeffery, Csilla Varnai, Gary Reynolds, Davide Zardo, Snehali Majumder, Asma Amamou, Georgios V Gkoutos, Marietta Iacucci, Subrata Ghosh","doi":"10.1093/ibd/izaf021","DOIUrl":"10.1093/ibd/izaf021","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Fibrosis is a common complication in Crohn's disease (CD), often leading to intestinal strictures. This study aims to explore the transcriptomic signature of fibrostenotic ileal CD for a comprehensive characterization of biological and cellular mechanisms underlying intestinal fibrosis.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Nine CD patients undergoing surgery for fibrotic ileal strictures were prospectively recruited. RNA was extracted from fresh resected samples for bulk transcriptomics. Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified (adj. P value < .05), and machine learning analyses were employed to compare gene expression patterns between strictures and non-strictured margins. Pathway enrichment analysis pinpointed relevant pathways. Furthermore, a random forest model was constructed to evaluate the significance of targeted genes. Relevant genes were subsequently validated through qPCR and further analyzed using a publicly available bulk RNA-seq dataset (GSE192786). Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) analysis was performed using the 10× Chromium Controller platform.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Bulk transcriptomics revealed unique transcriptomes with 81 DEGs, 64 significantly up-regulated, and 17 down-regulated in strictures compared to non-strictured margins. Up-regulated genes were mainly associated with inflammation, matrix and tissue remodeling, adipogenesis and cellular stress, while down-regulated genes were linked to epithelial barrier integrity. LY96, AKAP11, SRM, GREM1, EHD2, SERPINE1, HDAC1, and FGF2 showed high specificity for strictures. scRNA-seq linked up-regulated GREM1 exclusively to fibroblasts, while EHD2 and FGF2 showed upregulation in both fibroblasts and endothelial cells. LY96 and SRM were expressed by immune cells, whereas HDAC1, AKAP11, and SERPINE1 showed low expression across all cellular subsets.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study comprehensively characterizes resected CD ileal strictures, elucidating main dysregulated pathways and identifying promising biomarkers and putative therapeutic targets.</p>","PeriodicalId":13623,"journal":{"name":"Inflammatory Bowel Diseases","volume":" ","pages":"1502-1513"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12166298/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143467969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}