Medicina clinica
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An ideal test to evaluate the inflammatory burden in ulcerative colitis is still an unmet need. Fecal calprotectin (FCP) and C-reactive protein (CRP) have significant limitations. Plasma calprotectin (PC) seems to be promising in inflammatory diseases, but its value in IBD is still to be determined. Our aim was to assess whether PC correlates with inflammatory activity in UC. ⋯ PC has low value in distinguishing patients in remission from patients with endoscopic or histologic activity in UC. This essential role must continue be played by FCP.
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Evaluate clinical and subclinical arteriosclerotic disease in older patients with hip fracture compared with patients without fracture in order to increase knowledge about the relation between both diseases in older individuals. ⋯ Older patients with hip fracture had significantly higher presence of subclinical alterations but not increase on rate of cardiovascular arteriosclerotic disease compared with those without hip fracture.