25.10.2011 Articles for IBD Club Discussion 02/10/2011

The next IBD journal club will be Wednesday Nov. 2nd.  Discussion regarding the role of probiotics in the treatment/management of pouchitis and UC.

THE PROBIOTIC PREPARATION, VSL#3 INDUCES REMISSION IN PATIENTS WITH MILD-TO-MODERATELY ACTIVE ULCERATIVE COLITIS
Ajit Sood,* Vandana Midha,* Govind K. Makharia,‡ Vineet Ahuja,‡ Dinesh Singal,§ Pooja Goswami,‡ and Rakesh K. Tandon§
*Department of Gastroenterology and Medicine, Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, India; ‡Department of Gastroenterology and Human Nutrition, All
India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India; and §Pushpawati Singhania Research Institute, Sheikh Sarai-I, New Delhi, India

Departments of *Internal Medicine, ‡Pharmaceutical Sciences, and §Clinical Surgery, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

ORAL BACTERIOTHERAPY AS MAINTENANCE TREATMENT IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC POUCHITIS: A DOUBLE-BLIND, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED TRIAL
Paolo Gionchetti,* Fernando Rizzello,* Alessandro Venturi,* Patrizia Brigidi,‡ Diego Matteuzzi,‡ Gabriele Bazzocchi,* Gilberto Poggioli,§ Mario Miglioli,* And Massimo Campieri*
*Department of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, ‡Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and §Department of Clinical Surgery
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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15.09.2011 Articles for IBD Club Discussion 30/09/2011

FERGIcor, a Randomized Controlled Trial on Ferric Carboxymaltose for Iron Deficiency Anemia in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Rayko Evstatiev,^* Philippe Marteau,^‡ Tariq Iqbal,^§ Igor l. Khalif,^! Jürgen Stein,^¶ Bernd Bokemeyer,^# Ivan V. Chopey,^** Florian S. Gutzwiller,^‡‡ Lise Riopel,^§§ and Christoph Gasche,^* for the fergi study group

Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Management of Iron Deficiency and Anemia in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Christoph Gasche, MD,^* Arnold Berstad, MD,^† Ragnar Befrits, MD, PhD,^‡ Christoph Beglinger, MD,^§ Axel Dignass, MD, PhD,^PKari Erichsen, MD, PhD,^! Fernando Gomollon, MD,^** Henrik Hjortswang, MD,^†† Ioannis Koutroubakis, MD,^‡‡ Stefanie Kulnigg, MD,^* Bas Oldenburg, MD, PhD,^§§ David Rampton, DPhil,^PP Oliver Schroeder, MD, PhD,^!! Jürgen Stein, MD, PhD,^!! Simon Travis, DPhil,^*** and Gert Van Assche, MD, PhD†††

Intravenous Iron Sucrose versus Oral Iron Supplementation for the Treatment of Iron Deficiency Anemia in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease—A Randomized, Controlled, Open-Label, Multicenter Study
Oliver Schröder, M.D.,¹ Oliver Mickisch, M.D.,² Ursula Seidler, M.D.,³ Andreas de Weerth, M.D.,⁴ Axel U. Dignass, M.D.,⁵ Hans Herfarth, M.D.,⁶ Max Reinshagen, M.D.,⁷ Stefan Schreiber, M.D.,⁸ Ulrich Junge, M.D.,⁹ Marc Schrott, PharmD.,¹ and Jürgen Stein, M.D., Ph.D.¹

13.09.2011 Articles for IBD Club Discussion 13/09/2011
Articles for IBD Club Discussion 13/09/2011

Infliximab for Induction and Maintenance Therapy for Ulcerative Colitis
Paul Rutgeerts, M.D., Ph.D., William J. Sandborn, M.D., Brian G. Feagan, M.D., Walter Reinisch, M.D., Allan Olson, M.D., Jewel Johanns, Ph.D., Suzanne Travers, M.D., Daniel Rachmilewitz, M.D., Stephen B. Hanauer, M.D., Gary R. Lichtenstein, M.D., Willem J.S. de Villiers, M.D., Ph.D., Daniel Present, M.D., Bruce E. Sands, M.D., and Jean Frederic Colombel, M.D.
Adalimumab for induction of clinical remission in moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis: results of a randomised controlled trial
Walter Reinisch,¹ William J Sandborn,² Daniel W Hommes,³ Geert D’Haens,⁴ Stephen Hanauer,⁵ Stefan Schreiber,⁶ Remo Panaccione,⁷ Richard N Fedorak,⁸ Mary Beth Tighe,⁹ Bidan Huang,⁹ Wendy Kampman,¹⁰ Andreas Lazar,¹¹ Roopal Thakkar⁹

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NewYork-Presbyterian, hospital gastroenterologists and the Gastroenterology Institute of Moscow
Under the leadership of  Peter Holt M.D., Prof. Rockefeller University, Ellen J. Scherl, M.D., Director of the Jill Roberts Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease at NewYork-Presbyterian, hospital gastroenterologists and the Gastroenterology Institute of Moscow have teamed up to create a journal club focused on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).