Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic and relapsing inflammatory disease composed of two types: Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). It is difficult to cure the IBD completely and patients with clinical or endoscopic remission can worsen again. Therefore, predicting the prognosis of patients with IBD is still challenging.~Endoscopic biopsied samples and blood samples from IBD patients and non-IBD controls have been collected and the expression levels of multiple markers which are associated with disease activity and severity will be assessed. The correlation between expression levels of multiple markers and prognosis will be evaluated.
A study of clinical characteristics and potential prognostic factors in inflammatory bowel disease