Is cytokine production in pouchitis similar to that in ulcerative colitis?
Increased cytokine expression occurs in both active UC and pouchitis and to a lesser extent in the long-standing ileoanal pouch.
(99m)Tc-ECD SPECT identifies patients with IRBD at risk for conversion to other neurodegenerative disorders such as PD or DLB; disease progression in IRBD is predicted by abnormal perfusion in the hippocampus at baseline. Perfusion within this structure is correlated with clinical markers of neurodegeneration, further suggesting its involvement in the development of presumed synucleinopathies.