although the study relates to UC -this study from the Nertherlands supports what we have learnt
It does go on to discuss medication protocol but I found the outcome regarding the grade of diarrhea not a reliable clinical marker interesting“There was absolutely no relation between grade of diarrhea at presentation and the endoscopic Mayo score or van der Heijde score of ulcerative colitis, or the presence of ulcers,” said lead investigator Marnix H. Geukes Foppen, MD, a staff physician at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, in Amsterdam, at the 2017 annual European Cancer Congress (abstract 1734). “Endoscopy seems necessary to evaluate the severity of the colitis, as it may change treatment approach,” Dr. Geukes Foppen said.
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