Pediatric IBD Center, Department of Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA.
World J Gastroenterol. 2010 Jun 7;16(21):2604-8. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v16.i21.2604.
The search for biologic markers that can assess the natural history and perhaps predict the course of individual's disease including response to treatments over time has become an important focus of inflammatory bowel disease research. The knowledge of an individual's prognosis can help physicians and patients make important management decisions and aid communication on risk and benefits of disease and treatment.
寻找能够评估疾病自然史并预测个体疾病进程(包括随时间推移对治疗的反应)的生物标志物,已成为炎症性肠病研究的一个重要重点。了解个体的预后有助于医生和患者做出重要的管理决策,并有助于就疾病和治疗的风险和益处进行沟通。