Information de reference pour ce titreAccession Number: | 00042737-199710000-00004.
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Author: | Louis, Edouard 1; Belaiche, Jacques 1; van Kemseke, Catherine 1; Franchimont, Denis 1; de Groote, Donat 2; Gueenen, Vincent 3; Mary, Jean-Yves 4
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Institution: | From the (1)Department of Gastroenterology, CHU of Liege, Liege, Belgium, (2)(3)Laboratory of Radioimmunoassay, CHU of Liege, Liege, Belgium, and (4)Centre de Bioinformatique, INSERM U 444, Universite Paris 7, Paris, France.
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Source: | European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology. 9(10):939-944, October 1997.
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Abstract: | Background/aims: Relapses of Crohn's disease are difficult to predict. We assessed the value of serum level of interleukin-6, tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF-[alpha]) and soluble TNF receptors as predictors of relapse in quiescent Crohn's disease.
Patients/methods: Thirty-six patients with inactive Crohn's disease, treated or not, were included. Various clinical and biological parameters, including interleukin-6, TNF-[alpha] and soluble TNF receptors serum levels were measured at inclusion in the study and the patients were followed clinically for 1 year. The relapse was defined as a Crohn's Disease Activity Index (CDAI) greater than 150 with an increase greater than 100 compared to the inclusion value. We analysed the ability of these parameters to predict relapse in parallel to clinical characteristics and other laboratory parameters.
Results: Among the 32 variables tested, interleukin-6 serum level had the greatest ability to predict the time-to-relapse, with 17-fold chance of relapse over a 1-year period for patients with an interleukin-6 serum level greater than 20 pg/ml than for patients with a lower level (P<0.001). A high serum level of the soluble TNF receptors p55 and p75 also had significant predictive value, in contrast to TNF-[alpha] serum levels. An interleukin-6 serum level greater than 20 pg/ml and either an acid [alpha]-1glycoprotein level greater than 1.1 g/l or a soluble interleukin-2 receptor serum level greater than 95 pM/l were risk factors selected by a stepwise multivariate analysis. In both models a good prognosis group was defined by the absence of the two risk factors, a bad prognostic group by the presence of the two risk factors and an intermediate in between. With both models, the good prognosis group included 17 patients who experienced no relapse over the 1-year follow-up, whereas all patients (seven with the first model and six with the second) in the bad prognosis group had a relapse during the follow-up. Looking specifically at two homogeneous subgroups including either naturally/5-aminosalicylic acid (5-ASA) quiescent or corticoid quiescent patients, a very good predictive value for interleukin-6 serum concentration was also found.
Conclusion: Interleukin-6 serum level alone or in association with other biological parameters such as acid [alpha]-1-glycoprotein or the soluble interleukin-2 receptor serum level may be useful for predicting the course of the disease in patients with quiescent Crohn's disease.
(C) Lippincott-Raven Publishers.
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Author Keywords: | Crohn's disease; interleukin-6; soluble interleukin-2 receptor; tumour necrosis factor alpha; soluble tumour necrosis factor receptor.
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Language: | English.
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Document Type: | ORIGINAL PAPERS: PDF Only.
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Journal Subset: | Clinical Medicine.
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ISSN: | 0954-691X
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NLM Journal Code: | 9000874, B9X
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