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Abdominal aortic calcification in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: does anti-tumor necrosis factor α use protect from chronic inflammation-induced atherosclerosis?: Aikaterini Mantaka, Nikolaos Galanakis, Dimitrios Tsetis, Ioannis E. Koutroubakis; Intest Res 2022;20(4):495-505. Published online August 8, 2022; DOI: https://doi.org/10.5217/ir.2022.00017

Background/Aims
Abdominal aortic calcium (AAC) deposition has been suggested as a marker of early atherosclerosis. There is no published data on the evaluation of AAC in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
Methods
AAC was quantified by computed tomography or enterography scans performed in 98 IBD patients and 1:1 age and sex matched controls. AAC deposition was correlated with IBD characteristics, disease activity or severity parameters, laboratory tests and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors.
Results
Moderate-severe grade of AAC was found in 35.7% of IBD patients compared to 30.6% of controls (P= 0.544). IBD with CVD and ulcerative colitis patients had significantly higher rates of more severe atherosclerotic lesions (P= 0.001 and P= 0.01, respectively). AAC deposition was similarly distributed in age groups ( < 45, 45–64, and ≥ 65 years) among patients and controls. Multivariate analysis after excluding CVD risk confounders for non-CVD patients found extensive disease (P= 0.019) and lifetime steroids (P= 0.04) as independent risk factors for AAC. Anti-tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) use was negatively associated with AAC deposition in non-CVD IBD patients (odds ratio, 0.023; 95% confidence interval, 0.001–0.594; P= 0.023).
Conclusions
More than one-third of IBD patients have moderate to severe AAC. Better control of inflammation with anti-TNF-α agents seems to protect IBD patients from ACC deposition and subsequent atherosclerosis.

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Neutrophils at the Crossroads of Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Atherosclerosis: A State-of-the-Art Review
Vadim Genkel, Yana Zaripova, Alla Kuznetsova, Alena Sluchanko, Anna Minasova, Maria Zotova, Anna Saenko, Albina Savochkina, Anastasiya Dolgushina
Cells.2025; 14(10): 738. CrossRef
Abdominal aortic calcification among gastroenterological and transplant surgery
Yuki Imaoka, Masahiro Ohira, Miho Akabane, Kazunari Sasaki, Hideki Ohdan
Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery.2024; 8(6): 987. CrossRef
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Xinjiang Cai, Yin Tintut, Linda L. Demer
Journal of the American Heart Association.2023;[Epub] CrossRef
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Ruijie Xie, Xiaozhu Liu, Haiyang Wu, Mingjiang Liu, Ya Zhang
Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases.2023; 33(7): 1437. CrossRef
Cardiovascular manifestations of inflammatory bowel diseases and the underlying pathogenic mechanisms
Ying Xiao, Don W. Powell, Xiaowei Liu, Qingjie Li
American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology.2023; 325(2): R193. CrossRef

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Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Is there a correlation between infliximab trough levels and the development of adverse events in patients with inflammatory bowel disease?: Eirini Theodoraki, Eleni Orfanoudaki, Kalliopi Foteinogiannopoulou, Evangelia Legaki, Maria Gazouli, Ioannis E. Koutroubakis; Intest Res 2021;19(4):461-467. Published online August 18, 2020; DOI: https://doi.org/10.5217/ir.2020.00042

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Background/Aims
The measurement of infliximab trough levels (IFX-TLs) in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is performed to optimize treatment. However, the association between the development of adverse events (AEs) and IFX-TLs has not been sufficiently studied thus far. To investigate the possible association of IFX-TLs with AEs in Greek patients with IBD receiving maintenance treatment with IFX.
Methods
A retrospective analysis of the registry data of the Gastroenterology Department of the University Hospital of Heraklion, from IBD patients with at least one available IFX-TL measurement during the years 2016 to 2017 was conducted. AEs reported 4 months before and 4 months after the measured IFX-TLs were recorded. The IFX-TLs of patients with or without AEs were compared.
Results
Of a total of 83 IBD patients (61 Crohn’s disease [73%]; 52 men [63%]; mean age ± standard deviation, 43.3 ± 16.0 years), 147 measurements of IFX-TLs were available (median 4.69 μg/ mL [1.32–9.16]), and 99 AEs (67.3%, 14 severe) were registered. The median IFX-TL of patients with AEs was 5.79 μg/mL (1.36– 10.25), higher than the median IFX-TL of patients without AEs (3.40 μg/mL [1.30–5.92]), but the difference was not significant (P= 0.97). The presence of infections or dermatologic reactions was not correlated with IFX-TLs. There was no difference in the prevalence of the total AEs (66.7% vs. 73.3%, P= 0.77) or in the analysis of AEs by group between patients with IFX-TLs ≥ 15 μg/ mL and patients with IFX-TLs < 15 μg/mL.
Conclusions
IFX-TLs are not significantly associated with the development of AEs in IBD patients receiving maintenance treatment with IFX.

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Karen van Hoeve, Debby Thomas, Tom Hillary, Ilse Hoffman, Erwin Dreesen
Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition.2024; 78(1): 95. CrossRef
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Daniela Kosorínová, Pavlína Suchá, Zuzana Havlíčeková, Marek Pršo, Pavol Dvoran, Peter Bánovčin
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Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology.2023; 57(6): 601. CrossRef
Effect of antinuclear antibodies on pharmacokinetics of anti-TNF therapy in patients with inflammatory bowel disease
Eirini Theodoraki, Eleni Orfanoudaki, Kalliopi Foteinogiannopoulou, Nikolaos-Panagiotis Andreou, Maria Gazouli, Ioannis E. Koutroubakis
International Journal of Colorectal Disease.2022; 37(3): 639. CrossRef
Can Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor Agents Be Discontinued in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease?
Jihye Park, Jae Hee Cheon
Gut and Liver.2021; 15(5): 641. CrossRef
Pharmacogenetics-based personalized treatment in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: A review
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Precision and Future Medicine.2021; 5(4): 151. CrossRef

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