JULY 17, 2012

Enterography-based IBD Risk-Prediction Calculator Helps Predict Benefit of Surgery in Patients With Stricturing Crohn’s Disease

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Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic are developing a risk-prediction calculator to help clinicians identify Crohn’s disease (CD) patients with stricturing disease who are more likely to benefit from early surgical intervention. The calculator will incorporate specific disease and imaging findings that the investigators have identified as most predictive of surgery.

“The risk-prediction calculator will allow providers to use patient findings and classify them into risk categories [to