Validation of the 'Inflammatory Bowel Disease-Distribution, Chronicity, Activity [IBD-DCA] Score' for Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn´s Disease.
Corinna Lang-SchwarzMiriam AngeloniAbbas AgaimyRaja AtreyaChristoph BeckerTheresa DregeliesSilvio DaneseJean-François FléjouNikolaus GaßlerHeike I GrabschArndt HartmannKateřina KamarádováAnja A KühlGregory Y LauwersAlessandro LugliIris NagtegaalMarkus F NeurathGeorg OberhuberLaurent Peyrin-BirouletTimo RathRobert RiddellCarlos A RubioKieran SheahanBritta SiegmundHerbert TilgVincenzo VillanacciMaria WesterhoffFulvia FerrazziMichael ViethPublished in: Journal of Crohn's & colitis (2022)
The IBD-DCA score is a simple histological activity score for UC and CD, agreed and validated by a large group of IBD specialists. It provides reliable information on treatment response. Therefore, it has potential value for use in routine diagnostics as well as clinical studies.