Characterization of the gut microbiota in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis compared to inflammatory bowel disease and healthy controls.

Samaneh OstadmohammadiMasoumeh AzimiradHamidreza HouriKaveh NaseriEhsan JavanmardHamed MirjalaliAbbas Yadegar Nesa KazemifardHamid Asadzadeh AghdaeiMohammad Reza Zali

Published in: Molecular biology reports (2021)

Our findings showed that intestinal microbiota composition in PSC-IBD patients was completely different from that of IBD-only patients. Further studies using large-scale cohorts should be performed to better describe the contribution of the gut microbiota to PSC pathogenesis with underlying IBD.

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end stage renal disease
newly diagnosed
prognostic factors
patient reported outcomes
patient reported