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The relationship between Central Nervous System morphometry changes and key symptoms in Crohn’s disease (2022)
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Thapaliya, G., Eldeghaidy, S., Asghar, M., McGing, J., Radford, S., Francis, S., & Moran, G. W. (2022). The relationship between Central Nervous System morphometry changes and key symptoms in Crohn’s disease. Brain Imaging and Behavior, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11682-022-00742-6

Alterations in grey matter volume (GMV) and cortical thickness (CT) in Crohn’s disease (CD) patients has been previously documented. However, the findings are inconsistent, and not a true representation of CD burden, as only CD patients in remission... Read More about The relationship between Central Nervous System morphometry changes and key symptoms in Crohn’s disease.

Post-inflammatory Polyp Burden as a Prognostic Marker of Disease-outcome in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (2022)
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Ellul, P., Schembri, J., Vella Baldacchino, A., Molnár, T., Resal, T., Allocca, M. A., …Katsanos, K. (2023). Post-inflammatory Polyp Burden as a Prognostic Marker of Disease-outcome in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Journal of Crohn's and Colitis, 17(4), 489-496. https://doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjac169

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Post-inflammatory polyps [PIPs] are considered as indicators of previous episodes of severe inflammation and mucosal ulceration. Inflammatory bowel disease [IBD], namely Crohn's disease [CD] and ulcerative colitis [UC], exhibit a... Read More about Post-inflammatory Polyp Burden as a Prognostic Marker of Disease-outcome in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

The impact of Inflammatory Bowel Disease related fatigue on Health-Related Quality of Life: a qualitative semi-structured interview study (2022)
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Radford, S. J., Moran, G. W., & Czuber-Dochan, W. (2022). The impact of Inflammatory Bowel Disease related fatigue on Health-Related Quality of Life: a qualitative semi-structured interview study. Journal of Research in Nursing, 27(8), 685-702. https://doi.org/10.1177/17449871211061048

Background: Fatigue is a frequently reported symptom of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), having a negative impact on Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL). Patients’ experiences of this have not been researched in IBD. Methods: Semi-structured inte... Read More about The impact of Inflammatory Bowel Disease related fatigue on Health-Related Quality of Life: a qualitative semi-structured interview study.

Acute effects of prior dietary fat ingestion on postprandial metabolic responses to protein and carbohydrate co-ingestion in overweight and obese men: A randomised crossover trial (2022)
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Wilhelmsen, A., Davies, A., Mallinson, J., Pabla, P., Jones, R., Palmer, E. A., …Tsintzas, K. (2022). Acute effects of prior dietary fat ingestion on postprandial metabolic responses to protein and carbohydrate co-ingestion in overweight and obese men: A randomised crossover trial. Clinical Nutrition, 41(8), 1623-1635. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clnu.2022.06.022

Background: Obesity and insulin resistance are associated with an impaired sensitivity to anabolic stimuli such as dietary protein (anabolic resistance). Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 PUFA) may be protective against the deleterious effects... Read More about Acute effects of prior dietary fat ingestion on postprandial metabolic responses to protein and carbohydrate co-ingestion in overweight and obese men: A randomised crossover trial.

Ultrasound use to assess Crohn’s disease in the UK: a survey of British Society of Gastroenterology Inflammatory Bowel Disease Group members (2022)
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Radford, S. J., Taylor, S. A., & Moran, G. (2022). Ultrasound use to assess Crohn’s disease in the UK: a survey of British Society of Gastroenterology Inflammatory Bowel Disease Group members. Frontline Gastroenterology, 13(6), 471-476. https://doi.org/10.1136/flgastro-2021-102065

Background: Small bowel ultrasound has very good diagnostic accuracy for disease extent, presence and activity in Crohn's Disease, is well tolerated by patients and is cheaper when compared with MRI. However, uptake of ultrasound in the UK is limited... Read More about Ultrasound use to assess Crohn’s disease in the UK: a survey of British Society of Gastroenterology Inflammatory Bowel Disease Group members.

Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging in perianal crohn’s disease at 1.5 and 3.0 T: A feasibility study (2021)
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Alyami, A., Hoad, C. L., Tench, C., Bannur, U., Clarke, C., Latief, K., …Moran, G. W. (2021). Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging in perianal crohn’s disease at 1.5 and 3.0 T: A feasibility study. Diagnostics, 11(11), Article 2135. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11112135

Perianal Crohn’s Disease (pCD) is a common manifestation of Crohn’s Disease. Absence of reliable disease measures makes disease monitoring unreliable. Qualitative MRI has been increasingly used for diagnosing and monitoring pCD and has shown potentia... Read More about Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging in perianal crohn’s disease at 1.5 and 3.0 T: A feasibility study.

Diagnostic Accuracy of Non-Invasive Imaging for Detection of Colonic Inflammation in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2021)
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Alshammari, M. T., Stevenson, R., Abdul-Aema, B., Zou, G., Jairath, V., Radford, S., …Moran, G. W. (2021). Diagnostic Accuracy of Non-Invasive Imaging for Detection of Colonic Inflammation in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Diagnostics, 11(10), Article 1926. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11101926

Endoscopy is the gold standard for objective assessment of colonic disease activity in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Non-invasive colonic imaging using bowel ultrasound (US), computed tomography (CT), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may have... Read More about Diagnostic Accuracy of Non-Invasive Imaging for Detection of Colonic Inflammation in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Review article: The aetiology of fatigue in inflammatory bowel disease and potential therapeutic management strategies (2021)
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McGing, J. J., Radford, S. J., Francis, S. T., Serres, S., Greenhaff, P. L., & Moran, G. W. (2021). Review article: The aetiology of fatigue in inflammatory bowel disease and potential therapeutic management strategies. Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 54(4), 368-387. https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.16465

Background: Fatigue is the inability to achieve or maintain an expected work output resulting from central or peripheral mechanisms. The prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) fatigue can reach 86% in active disease, persisting in 50%-52% of... Read More about Review article: The aetiology of fatigue in inflammatory bowel disease and potential therapeutic management strategies.

Clinical Utility of small bowel ultrasound assessment of Crohn’s Disease in Adults: A systematic scoping review (2021)
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Radford, S. J., Clarke, C. G., Shinkins, B., Leighton, P., Taylor, S. A., & Moran, G. W. (2022). Clinical Utility of small bowel ultrasound assessment of Crohn’s Disease in Adults: A systematic scoping review. Frontline Gastroenterology, 13(4), 280-286. https://doi.org/10.1136/flgastro-2021-101897

Background: Ultrasound is an alternative to Magnetic Resonance Enterography, and has the potential to significantly reduce waiting times, expedite clinical decision making and improve patient experience. Point of care ultrasound is an advantage of th... Read More about Clinical Utility of small bowel ultrasound assessment of Crohn’s Disease in Adults: A systematic scoping review.

Letter: risk of severe COVID-19 outcomes associated with inflammatory bowel disease medications - reassuring insights from the United Kingdom PREPARE-IBD multicentre cohort study (2021)
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Lamb, C. A., Sebastian, S., Kent, A. J., Segal, J. P., Gonzalez, H. A., Brookes, M. J., …Kennedy, N. A. (2021). Letter: risk of severe COVID-19 outcomes associated with inflammatory bowel disease medications - reassuring insights from the United Kingdom PREPARE-IBD multicentre cohort study. Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 53(11), 1236-1240. https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.16349

The Gut–Brain Axis and Its Role in Controlling Eating Behavior in Intestinal Inflammation (2021)
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Moran, G. W., & Thapaliya, G. (2021). The Gut–Brain Axis and Its Role in Controlling Eating Behavior in Intestinal Inflammation. Nutrients, 13(3), Article 981. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13030981

Malnutrition represents a major problem in the clinical management of the inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Presently, our understanding of the cross-link between eating behavior and intestinal inflammation is still in its infancy. Crohn’s disease... Read More about The Gut–Brain Axis and Its Role in Controlling Eating Behavior in Intestinal Inflammation.

SARS-CoV-2 vaccination for patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a British Society of Gastroenterology Inflammatory Bowel Disease section and IBD Clinical Research Group position statement (2021)
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Alexander, J. L., Moran, G., Gaya, D. R., Raine, T., Hart, A., Kennedy, N. A., …Powell, N. (2021). SARS-CoV-2 vaccination for patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a British Society of Gastroenterology Inflammatory Bowel Disease section and IBD Clinical Research Group position statement. Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 6(3), 218-224. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-1253%2821%2900024-8

SARS-CoV2 has caused a global health crisis and mass vaccination programmes provide the best opportunity for controlling transmission and protecting populations. Despite the impressive clinical trial results of the BNT162b2 (Pfizer/BioNTech), ChAdOx1... Read More about SARS-CoV-2 vaccination for patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a British Society of Gastroenterology Inflammatory Bowel Disease section and IBD Clinical Research Group position statement.

MR Measures of Small Bowel Wall T2 Are Associated With Increased Permeability (2020)
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Scott, R. A., Williams, H. G., Hoad, C. L., Alyami, A., Ortori, C. A., Grove, J. I., …Gowland, P. A. (2021). MR Measures of Small Bowel Wall T2 Are Associated With Increased Permeability. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 53(5), 1422-1431. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmri.27463

Background: Increased small bowel permeability leads to bacterial translocation, associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Biomarkers are needed to evaluate these changes in vivo, stratify an individual's risk, and evaluate the efficacy of... Read More about MR Measures of Small Bowel Wall T2 Are Associated With Increased Permeability.

Skeletal muscle anabolic and insulin sensitivity responses to a mixed meal in adult patients with active Crohn's disease (2020)
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Davies, A., Nixon, A., Tsintzas, K., Stephens, F. B., & Moran, G. W. (2021). Skeletal muscle anabolic and insulin sensitivity responses to a mixed meal in adult patients with active Crohn's disease. Clinical Nutrition ESPEN, 41, 305-313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clnesp.2020.11.014

© 2020 European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism Background and aims: We have previously shown reduced protein balance in response to nutrition in paediatric Crohn's disease (CD) in remission, associated with reduced lean mass (sarcopeni... Read More about Skeletal muscle anabolic and insulin sensitivity responses to a mixed meal in adult patients with active Crohn's disease.

Thiopurine monotherapy is effective in ulcerative colitis but significantly less so in Crohn’s disease: long-term outcomes for 11 928 patients in the UK inflammatory bowel disease bioresource (2020)
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Stournaras, E., Qian, W., Pappas, A., Hong, Y. Y., Shawky, R., Raine, T., & Parkes, M. (2020). Thiopurine monotherapy is effective in ulcerative colitis but significantly less so in Crohn’s disease: long-term outcomes for 11 928 patients in the UK inflammatory bowel disease bioresource. Gut, 70(4), 677-686. https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2019-320185

Objective Thiopurines are widely used as maintenance therapy in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) but the evidence base for their use is sparse and their role increasingly questioned. Using the largest series reported to date, we assessed the long-ter... Read More about Thiopurine monotherapy is effective in ulcerative colitis but significantly less so in Crohn’s disease: long-term outcomes for 11 928 patients in the UK inflammatory bowel disease bioresource.

Experiences of using vedolizumab in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease in the East Midlands UK – a retrospective observational study (2020)
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White, J. R., Din, S., Ingram, R. J. M., Foley, S., Alam, M. A., Robinson, R., …Moran, G. W. (2020). Experiences of using vedolizumab in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease in the East Midlands UK – a retrospective observational study. Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology, 55(8), 907-916. https://doi.org/10.1080/00365521.2020.1790647

Purpose Clinical trials have demonstrated efficacy of vedolizumab in ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD). Further real-world data is needed to inform clinical practice. The primary outcome was to assess corticosteroid-free and clinical... Read More about Experiences of using vedolizumab in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease in the East Midlands UK – a retrospective observational study.

Simultaneous measurement of gastric emptying of a soup test meal using MRI and gamma scintigraphy (2020)
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Khalaf, A., Hoad, C. L., Blackshaw, E., Alyami, J., Spiller, R. C., Gowland, P. A., …Marciani, L. (2020). Simultaneous measurement of gastric emptying of a soup test meal using MRI and gamma scintigraphy. Diagnostics, 10(3), Article 170. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics10030170

Measurement of gastric emptying is of clinical value for a range of conditions. Gamma scintigraphy (GS) has an established role, but the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has recently increased. Previous comparison studies between MRI and GS sh... Read More about Simultaneous measurement of gastric emptying of a soup test meal using MRI and gamma scintigraphy.

Systematic review: the impact of inflammatory bowel disease-related fatigue on health-related quality of life (2020)
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Radford, S. J., McGing, J., Czuber-Dochan, W., & Moran, G. (2021). Systematic review: the impact of inflammatory bowel disease-related fatigue on health-related quality of life. Frontline Gastroenterology, 12(1), 11-21. https://doi.org/10.1136/flgastro-2019-101355

Background: Fatigue is frequently reported in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and impacts on Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL). HRQoL has not been systematically reviewed in IBD fatigue. Aim: To investigate what impact IBD fatigue has on HR... Read More about Systematic review: the impact of inflammatory bowel disease-related fatigue on health-related quality of life.

Profile of Tofacitinib in the Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis: An Evidence-Based Review of Recent Data (2019)
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Varyani, F., Argyriou, K., Phillips, F., Tsakiridou, E., & Moran, G. W. (2019). Profile of Tofacitinib in the Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis: An Evidence-Based Review of Recent Data. Drug Design, Development and Therapy, 13, 4091-4105. https://doi.org/10.2147/dddt.s182891

Recent advances in the understanding of the pathophysiology of ulcerative colitis (UC) have led to the expansion of our therapeutic arsenal. Conventional treatment options, including aminosalicylates, corticosteroids, thiopurines, and calcineurin inh... Read More about Profile of Tofacitinib in the Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis: An Evidence-Based Review of Recent Data.

Physical activity and fatigue in adults with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD): a systematic review (2019)
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Radford, S. J., Janiszewski, H., & Moran, G. W. (2019). Physical activity and fatigue in adults with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD): a systematic review. Gastrointestinal Nursing, 17(9), 16-21. https://doi.org/10.12968/gasn.2019.17.9.16

Background: Fatigue is frequently reported in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). IBD has been shown to have an impact on, and be impacted by, physical activity levels in IBD patients, Yet, to date, there have been no systematic reviews considering the... Read More about Physical activity and fatigue in adults with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD): a systematic review.