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Erratum: A Cross-Sectional Study on Malnutrition in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Is There a Difference Based on Pediatric or Adult Age Grouping?

Authors:
Valérie Marcil Emile Levy Devendra Amre Alain Bitton Ana Maria Guilhon de Araújo Sant'Anna Andrew Szilagy Daniel Sinnett Ernest G Seidman

Inflamm Bowel Dis 2020 Jan;26(1):160

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ibd/izz275DOI Listing
January 2020

Vaccination Guidelines for Patients with Immune-Mediated Disorders on Immunosuppressive Therapies-Executive Summary.

Authors:
Kim A Papp Boulos Haraoui Deepali Kumar John K Marshall Robert Bissonnette Alain Bitton Brian Bressler Melinda Gooderham Vincent Ho Shahin Jamal Janet E Pope A Hillary Steinhart Donald C Vinh John Wade

J Can Assoc Gastroenterol 2019 Dec 1;2(4):149-152. Epub 2019 Feb 1.

Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jcag/gwy069DOI Listing
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6785689PMC
December 2019

Low Rate of Drug Discontinuation, Frequent Need for Dose Adjustment, and No Association with Development of New Arthralgia in Patients Treated with Vedolizumab: Results from a Tertiary Referral IBD Center.

Authors:
Jason Reinglas Lorant Gonczi Christine Verdon Talat Bessissow Waqqas Afif Gary Wild Ernest Seidman Alain Bitton Peter L Lakatos

Dig Dis Sci 2019 Dec 7. Epub 2019 Dec 7.

Division of Gastroenterology, McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), Montreal General Hospital, 1650 Ave. Cedar, D16.173.1, Montreal, QC, H3G 1A4, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10620-019-05982-zDOI Listing
December 2019

Perceived Quality of Care is Associated with Disease Activity, Quality of Life, Work Productivity, and Gender, but not Disease Phenotype: A Prospective Study in a High-volume IBD Centre.

Authors:
Lorant Gonczi Zsuzsanna Kurti Christine Verdon Jason Reinglas Rita Kohen Isabelle Morin Kelly Chavez Talat Bessissow Waqqas Afif Gary Wild Ernest Seidman Alain Bitton Peter L Lakatos

J Crohns Colitis 2019 Sep;13(9):1138-1147

First Department of Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjz035DOI Listing
September 2019

Risk of Malignant Cancers in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Authors:
Simone Y Loo Maria Vutcovici Alain Bitton Peter L Lakatos Laurent Azoulay Samy Suissa Paul Brassard

J Crohns Colitis 2019 Sep;13(10):1302-1310

Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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https://academic.oup.com/ecco-jcc/advance-article/doi/10.109
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjz058DOI Listing
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6764102PMC
September 2019

High Adherence to Surveillance Guidelines in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients Results in Low Colorectal Cancer and Dysplasia Rates, While Rates of Dysplasia are Low Before the Suggested Onset of Surveillance.

Authors:
Kelita Singh Alex Al Khoury Zsuzsanna Kurti Lorant Gonczi Jason Reinglas Christine Verdon Rita Kohen Talat Bessissow Waqqas Afif Gary Wild Ernest Seidman Alain Bitton Peter L Lakatos

J Crohns Colitis 2019 Sep;13(10):1343-1350

Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal QC, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjz066DOI Listing
September 2019

Canadian Association of Gastroenterology Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Luminal Crohn's Disease.

Authors:
Remo Panaccione A Hillary Steinhart Brian Bressler Reena Khanna John K Marshall Laura Targownik Waqqas Afif Alain Bitton Mark Borgaonkar Usha Chauhan Brendan Halloran Jennifer Jones Erin Kennedy Grigorios I Leontiadis Edward V Loftus Jonathan Meddings Paul Moayyedi Sanjay Murthy Sophie Plamondon Greg Rosenfeld David Schwartz Cynthia H Seow Chadwick Williams Charles N Bernstein

Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2019 Aug 7;17(9):1680-1713. Epub 2019 Mar 7.

Section of Gastroenterology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2019.02.043DOI Listing
August 2019

Canadian Association of Gastroenterology Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Luminal Crohn's Disease.

Authors:
Remo Panaccione A Hillary Steinhart Brian Bressler Reena Khanna John K Marshall Laura Targownik Waqqas Afif Alain Bitton Mark Borgaonkar Usha Chauhan Brendan Halloran Jennifer Jones Erin Kennedy Grigorios I Leontiadis Edward V Loftus Jonathan Meddings Paul Moayyedi Sanjay Murthy Sophie Plamondon Greg Rosenfeld David Schwartz Cynthia H Seow Chadwick Williams Charles N Bernstein

J Can Assoc Gastroenterol 2019 Aug 10;2(3):e1-e34. Epub 2018 Jul 10.

Section of Gastroenterology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jcag/gwz019DOI Listing
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6619415PMC
August 2019

Vaccination Guidelines for Patients with Immune-mediated Disorders Taking Immunosuppressive Therapies: Executive Summary.

Authors:
Kim A Papp Boulos Haraoui Deepali Kumar John K Marshall Robert Bissonnette Alain Bitton Brian Bressler Melinda Gooderham Vincent Ho Shahin Jamal Janet E Pope A Hillary Steinhart Donald C Vinh John Wade

J Rheumatol 2019 Jul 1;46(7):751-754. Epub 2019 Feb 1.

From K. Papp Clinical Research; Probity Medical Research, Waterloo; University Health Network; Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto; Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto; Department of Medicine and Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton; Faculty of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston; Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Ontario; St. Joseph's Health Care, London, Ontario; Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal; Innovaderm Research Inc.; McGill University Health Centre; Research Institute - McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec; Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia; St. Paul's Hospital; Vancouver Coastal Health; Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.180784DOI Listing
July 2019

A Cross-Sectional Study on Malnutrition in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Is There a Difference Based on Pediatric or Adult Age Grouping?

Authors:
Valérie Marcil Emile Levy Devendra Amre Alain Bitton Ana Maria Guilhon de Araújo Sant'Anna Andrew Szilagy Daniel Sinnett Ernest G Seidman

Inflamm Bowel Dis 2019 07;25(8):1428-1441

IBD Research Group, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Research Centre, Sainte-Justine UHC.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ibd/izy403DOI Listing
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6635818PMC
July 2019

Vaccination Guidelines for Patients With Immune-Mediated Disorders on Immunosuppressive Therapies.

Authors:
Kim A Papp Boulos Haraoui Deepali Kumar John K Marshall Robert Bissonnette Alain Bitton Brian Bressler Melinda Gooderham Vincent Ho Shahin Jamal Janet E Pope A Hillary Steinhart Donald C Vinh John Wade

J Cutan Med Surg 2019 Jan/Feb;23(1):50-74. Epub 2018 Nov 21.

9 Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1203475418811335DOI Listing
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6330697PMC
June 2019

Clinical Parameters Correlate With Endoscopic Activity of Ulcerative Colitis: A Systematic Review.

Authors:
Sophie Restellini Che-Yung Chao Myriam Martel Alan Barkun Omar Kherad Ernest Seidman Gary Wild Alain Bitton Waqqas Afif Talat Bessissow Peter L Lakatos

Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2019 Jun 21;17(7):1265-1275.e8. Epub 2018 Dec 21.

Division of Gastroenterology, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada; First Department of Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary. Electronic address:

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https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S15423565183139
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2018.12.021DOI Listing
June 2019

Faecal Calprotectin Predicts Endoscopic and Histological Activity in Clinically Quiescent Ulcerative Colitis.

Authors:
Lara Hart Mallory Chavannes Omar Kherad Chelsea Maedler Nathalie Mourad Victoria Marcus Waqqas Afif Alain Bitton Peter L Lakatos Paul Brassard Talat Bessissow

J Crohns Colitis 2019 Jun 10. Epub 2019 Jun 10.

Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjz107DOI Listing
June 2019

Herpes Zoster Incidence in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients: A Population-Based Study.

Authors:
Justin Côté-Daigneault Talat Bessissow Maria Vutcovici Nicolae Rui Nie Alain Bitton Peter Laszlo Lakatos Paul Brassard

Inflamm Bowel Dis 2019 04;25(5):914-918

Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ibd/izy311DOI Listing
April 2019

Past and Future Burden of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Based on Modeling of Population-Based Data.

Authors:
Stephanie Coward Fiona Clement Eric I Benchimol Charles N Bernstein J Antonio Avina-Zubieta Alain Bitton Mathew W Carroll Glen Hazlewood Kevan Jacobson Susan Jelinski Rob Deardon Jennifer L Jones M Ellen Kuenzig Desmond Leddin Kerry A McBrien Sanjay K Murthy Geoffrey C Nguyen Anthony R Otley Remo Panaccione Ali Rezaie Greg Rosenfeld Juan Nicolás Peña-Sánchez Harminder Singh Laura E Targownik Gilaad G Kaplan

Gastroenterology 2019 Apr 10;156(5):1345-1353.e4. Epub 2019 Jan 10.

Canadian Gastro-Intestinal Epidemiology Consortium, Canada; University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Electronic address:

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https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S00165085193002
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1053/j.gastro.2019.01.002DOI Listing
April 2019

Reply to Letter on: 'Risk Factors Associated With Clostridium difficile Infection in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis'.

Authors:
Bhairavi Balram Robert Battat Alex Al-Khoury Julie D'Aoust Waqqas Afif Alain Bitton Peter L Lakatos Talat Bessissow

J Crohns Colitis 2019 03;13(4):536-537

Division of Gastroenterology, Montreal General Hospital, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, QC, Canada.

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https://academic.oup.com/ecco-jcc/advance-article/doi/10.109
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjy176DOI Listing
March 2019

Harmonization of quality of care in an IBD center impacts disease outcomes: Importance of structure, process indicators and rapid access clinic.

Authors:
Jason Reinglas Sophie Restellini Lorant Gonczi Zsuzsanna Kurti Christine Verdon Sofia Nene Rita Kohen Waqqas Afif Talat Bessissow Gary Wild Ernest Seidman Alain Bitton Peter L Lakatos

Dig Liver Dis 2019 03 3;51(3):340-345. Epub 2018 Dec 3.

Inflammatory Bowel Disease Centre, Division of Gastroenterology, McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), Montreal, Quebec, Canada; 1st Department of Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary. Electronic address:

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dld.2018.11.013DOI Listing
March 2019

Maladaptive coping, low self-efficacy and disease activity are associated with poorer patient-reported outcomes in inflammatory bowel disease.

Authors:
Che-Yung Chao Carolyne Lemieux Sophie Restellini Waqqas Afif Alain Bitton Peter L Lakatos Gary Wild Talat Bessissow

Saudi J Gastroenterol 2019 May-Jun;25(3):159-166

Division of Gastroenterology, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/sjg.SJG_566_18DOI Listing
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6526742PMC
March 2019

High-Dose Infliximab Rescue Therapy for Hospitalized Acute Severe Ulcerative Colitis Does Not Improve Colectomy-Free Survival.

Authors:
Che-Yung Chao Alex Al Khoury Achuthan Aruljothy Sophie Restellini Jonathan Wyse Waqqas Afif Alain Bitton Peter L Lakatos Talat Bessissow

Dig Dis Sci 2019 02 16;64(2):518-523. Epub 2018 Nov 16.

Division of Gastroenterology, Montreal General Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, 1650 Avenue Cedar C7-200, Montreal, QC, H3G 1A4, Canada.

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http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10620-018-5358-z
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10620-018-5358-zDOI Listing
February 2019

Inflammatory bowel disease patient perceptions of diagnostic and monitoring tests and procedures.

Authors:
Isabelle Noiseux Sophie Veilleux Alain Bitton Rita Kohen Luc Vachon Brian White Guay John D Rioux

BMC Gastroenterol 2019 Feb 13;19(1):30. Epub 2019 Feb 13.

Department of Medicine, Université de Montréal & Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, H1T 1C8, Canada.

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https://bmcgastroenterol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12876-019-0946-8DOI Listing
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6374885PMC
February 2019

The Impact of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Canada 2018: A Scientific Report from the Canadian Gastro-Intestinal Epidemiology Consortium to Crohn's and Colitis Canada.

Authors:
Eric I Benchimol Charles N Bernstein Alain Bitton Sanjay K Murthy Geoffrey C Nguyen Kate Lee Jane Cooke-Lauder Shabnaz Siddiq Joseph W Windsor Matthew W Carroll Stephanie Coward Wael El-Matary Anne M Griffiths Jennifer L Jones M Ellen Kuenzig Lawrence Lee David R Mack Mina Mawani Anthony R Otley Harminder Singh Laura E Targownik Adam V Weizman Gilaad G Kaplan

J Can Assoc Gastroenterol 2019 Feb 2;2(Suppl 1):S1-S5. Epub 2018 Nov 2.

Canadian Gastro-Intestinal Epidemiology Consortium, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jcag/gwy052DOI Listing
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6512240PMC
February 2019

The Impact of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Canada 2018: Epidemiology.

Authors:
Gilaad G Kaplan Charles N Bernstein Stephanie Coward Alain Bitton Sanjay K Murthy Geoffrey C Nguyen Kate Lee Jane Cooke-Lauder Eric I Benchimol

J Can Assoc Gastroenterol 2019 Feb 2;2(Suppl 1):S6-S16. Epub 2018 Nov 2.

Canadian Gastro-Intestinal Epidemiology Consortium, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jcag/gwy054DOI Listing
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6512243PMC
February 2019

The Impact of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Canada 2018: Direct Costs and Health Services Utilization.

Authors:
M Ellen Kuenzig Eric I Benchimol Lawrence Lee Laura E Targownik Harminder Singh Gilaad G Kaplan Charles N Bernstein Alain Bitton Geoffrey C Nguyen Kate Lee Jane Cooke-Lauder Sanjay K Murthy

J Can Assoc Gastroenterol 2019 Feb 2;2(Suppl 1):S17-S33. Epub 2018 Nov 2.

Canadian Gastro-Intestinal Epidemiology Consortium, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jcag/gwy055DOI Listing
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6512251PMC
February 2019

The Impact of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Canada 2018: Indirect Costs of IBD Care.

Authors:
M Ellen Kuenzig Lawrence Lee Wael El-Matary Adam V Weizman Eric I Benchimol Gilaad G Kaplan Geoffrey C Nguyen Charles N Bernstein Alain Bitton Kate Lee Jane Cooke-Lauder Sanjay K Murthy

J Can Assoc Gastroenterol 2019 Feb 2;2(Suppl 1):S34-S41. Epub 2018 Nov 2.

Canadian Gastro-Intestinal Epidemiology Consortium, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jcag/gwy050DOI Listing
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6512236PMC
February 2019

The Impact of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Canada 2018: Quality of Life.

Authors:
Jennifer L Jones Geoffrey C Nguyen Eric I Benchimol Charles N Bernstein Alain Bitton Gilaad G Kaplan Sanjay K Murthy Kate Lee Jane Cooke-Lauder Anthony R Otley

J Can Assoc Gastroenterol 2019 Feb 2;2(Suppl 1):S42-S48. Epub 2018 Nov 2.

Canadian Gastro-Intestinal Epidemiology Consortium, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jcag/gwy048DOI Listing
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6512247PMC
February 2019

The Impact of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Canada 2018: Children and Adolescents with IBD.

Authors:
Matthew W Carroll M Ellen Kuenzig David R Mack Anthony R Otley Anne M Griffiths Gilaad G Kaplan Charles N Bernstein Alain Bitton Sanjay K Murthy Geoffrey C Nguyen Kate Lee Jane Cooke-Lauder Eric I Benchimol

J Can Assoc Gastroenterol 2019 Feb 2;2(Suppl 1):S49-S67. Epub 2018 Nov 2.

Canadian Gastro-Intestinal Epidemiology Consortium Ottawa, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jcag/gwy056DOI Listing
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6512244PMC
February 2019

The Impact of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Canada 2018: IBD in Seniors.

Authors:
Geoffrey C Nguyen Laura E Targownik Harminder Singh Eric I Benchimol Alain Bitton Sanjay K Murthy Charles N Bernstein Kate Lee Jane Cooke-Lauder Gilaad G Kaplan

J Can Assoc Gastroenterol 2019 Feb 2;2(Suppl 1):S68-S72. Epub 2018 Nov 2.

Canadian Gastro-Intestinal Epidemiology Consortium, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jcag/gwy051DOI Listing
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6512246PMC
February 2019

The Impact of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Canada 2018: Extra-intestinal Diseases in IBD.

Authors:
Charles N Bernstein Eric I Benchimol Alain Bitton Sanjay K Murthy Geoffrey C Nguyen Kate Lee Jane Cooke-Lauder Gilaad G Kaplan

J Can Assoc Gastroenterol 2019 Feb 2;2(Suppl 1):S73-S80. Epub 2018 Nov 2.

Canadian Gastro-Intestinal Epidemiology Consortium, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jcag/gwy053DOI Listing
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6512250PMC
February 2019

The Impact of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Canada 2018: IBD Research Landscape in Canada.

Authors:
Keeley L Rose Philip M Sherman Jane Cooke-Lauder Mina Mawani Eric I Benchimol Gilaad G Kaplan Charles N Bernstein Alain Bitton Sanjay K Murthy Geoffrey C Nguyen Kate Lee

J Can Assoc Gastroenterol 2019 Feb 2;2(Suppl 1):S81-S91. Epub 2018 Nov 2.

Crohn's and Colitis Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jcag/gwy057DOI Listing
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6512242PMC
February 2019

Screening for Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: A Cohort Study Using Transient Elastography.

Authors:
Chiara Saroli Palumbo Sophie Restellini Che-Yung Chao Achuthan Aruljothy Carolyne Lemieux Gary Wild Waqqas Afif Peter L Lakatos Alain Bitton Sila Cocciolillo Peter Ghali Talat Bessissow Giada Sebastiani

Inflamm Bowel Dis 2019 01;25(1):124-133

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ibd/izy200DOI Listing
January 2019

Clinical Practice Guideline for the Medical Management of Perianal Fistulizing Crohn's Disease: The Toronto Consensus.

Authors:
A Hillary Steinhart Remo Panaccione Laura Targownik Brian Bressler Reena Khanna John K Marshall Waqqas Afif Charles N Bernstein Alain Bitton Mark Borgaonkar Usha Chauhan Brendan Halloran Jennifer Jones Erin Kennedy Grigorios I Leontiadis Edward V Loftus Jonathan Meddings Paul Moayyedi Sanjay Murthy Sophie Plamondon Greg Rosenfeld David Schwartz Cynthia H Seow Chadwick Williams

Inflamm Bowel Dis 2019 01;25(1):1-13

Division of Digestive Care & Endoscopy, Department of Medicine, Dartmouth General Hospital, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ibd/izy247DOI Listing
January 2019

Selection of Quality Indicators in IBD: Integrating Physician and Patient Perspectives.

Authors:
Alain Bitton Maria Vutcovici Ellina Lytvyak Natasha Kachan Brian Bressler Jennifer Jones Peter L Lakatos Maida Sewitch Wael El-Matary Gil Melmed Geoffrey Nguyen

Inflamm Bowel Dis 2019 01;25(2):403-409

Mount Sinai Hospital, Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ibd/izy259DOI Listing
January 2019

Risk Factors Associated with Clostridium difficile Infection in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Authors:
Bhairavi Balram Robert Battat Alex Al-Khoury Julie D'Aoust Waqqas Afif Alain Bitton Peter L Lakatos Talat Bessissow

J Crohns Colitis 2019 Jan;13(1):27-38

Division of Gastroenterology, Montreal General Hospital, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, QC, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjy143DOI Listing
January 2019

Clinical Practice Guideline for the Medical Management of Perianal Fistulizing Crohn's Disease: The Toronto Consensus.

Authors:
A Hillary Steinhart Remo Panaccione Laura Targownik Brian Bressler Reena Khanna John K Marshall Waqqas Afif Charles N Bernstein Alain Bitton Mark Borgaonkar Usha Chauhan Brendan Halloran Jennifer Jones Erin Kennedy Grigorios I Leontiadis Edward V Loftus Jonathan Meddings Paul Moayyedi Sanjay Murthy Sophie Plamondon Greg Rosenfeld David Schwartz Cynthia H Seow Chadwick Williams

J Can Assoc Gastroenterol 2018 Dec 14;1(4):141-154. Epub 2018 Sep 14.

Division of Digestive Care & Endoscopy, Department of Medicine, Dartmouth General Hospital, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jcag/gwy047DOI Listing
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6542243PMC
December 2018

Rural and urban disparities in the care of Canadian patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a population-based study.

Authors:
Eric I Benchimol M Ellen Kuenzig Charles N Bernstein Geoffrey C Nguyen Astrid Guttmann Jennifer L Jones Beth K Potter Laura E Targownik Christina A Catley Zoann J Nugent Divine Tanyingoh Nassim Mojaverian Fox E Underwood Shabnaz Siddiq Anthony R Otley Alain Bitton Matthew W Carroll Jennifer C deBruyn Trevor Jb Dummer Wael El-Matary Anne M Griffiths Kevan Jacobson Desmond Leddin Lisa M Lix David R Mack Sanjay K Murthy Juan Nicolás Peña-Sánchez Harminder Singh Gilaad G Kaplan

Clin Epidemiol 2018 8;10:1613-1626. Epub 2018 Nov 8.

Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S178056DOI Listing
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6233859PMC
November 2018

Sex-Based Differences in Incidence of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases-Pooled Analysis of Population-Based Studies From Western Countries.

Authors:
Shailja C Shah Hamed Khalili Corinne Gower-Rousseau Ola Olen Eric I Benchimol Elsebeth Lynge Kári R Nielsen Paul Brassard Maria Vutcovici Alain Bitton Charles N Bernstein Desmond Leddin Hala Tamim Tryggvi Stefansson Edward V Loftus Bjørn Moum Whitney Tang Siew C Ng Richard Gearry Brankica Sincic Sally Bell Bruce E Sands Peter L Lakatos Zsuzsanna Végh Claudia Ott Gilaad G Kaplan Johan Burisch Jean-Frederic Colombel

Gastroenterology 2018 10 27;155(4):1079-1089.e3. Epub 2018 Jun 27.

Division of Gastroenterology, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York.

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https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S00165085183468
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1053/j.gastro.2018.06.043DOI Listing
October 2018

A Study of Optimal Screening for Latent Tuberculosis in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Authors:
Talal Al-Taweel Matthew Strohl Madhukar Pai Myriam Martel Talat Bessissow Alain Bitton Ernest Seidman Waqqas Afif

Dig Dis Sci 2018 10 3;63(10):2695-2702. Epub 2018 Jul 3.

Division of Gastroenterology, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10620-018-5178-1DOI Listing
October 2018

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Guides the Management of Crohn's Patients with Secondary Loss of Response to Adalimumab.

Authors:
Sophie Restellini Che-Yung Chao Peter L Lakatos Achuthan Aruljothy Haya Aziz Omar Kherad Alain Bitton Gary Wild Waqqas Afif Talat Bessissow

Inflamm Bowel Dis 2018 06;24(7):1531-1538

Division of Gastroenterology, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ibd/izy044DOI Listing
June 2018

Comparative Effectiveness of Infliximab Versus Adalimumab in Patients with Biologic-Naïve Crohn's Disease.

Authors:
Amine Benmassaoud Talal Al-Taweel Mark Solomon Sasson Dasha Moza Matthew Strohl Uri Kopylov Laurence Paradis-Surprenant Mohanad Almaimani Alain Bitton Waqqas Afif Peter L Lakatos Talat Bessissow

Dig Dis Sci 2018 05 14;63(5):1302-1310. Epub 2017 Dec 14.

Division of Gastroenterology, Montreal General Hospital, McGill University Health Center, 1650, Cedar Avenue, C7-200, Montreal, QC, H3G 1A4, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10620-017-4874-6DOI Listing
May 2018

Exploring the Use of a Participative Design in the Early Development of a Predictive Test: The Importance of Physician Involvement.

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Sophie Veilleux Maude Villeneuve Nathalie Lachapelle Rita Kohen Luc Vachon Brian White Guay John D Rioux Alain Bitton

Public Health Genomics 2017 17;20(3):174-187. Epub 2017 Aug 17.

Faculté des sciences de l'administration, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.

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April 2018

Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors and incidence of inflammatory bowel disease among patients with type 2 diabetes: population based cohort study.

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Devin Abrahami Antonios Douros Hui Yin Oriana Hoi Yun Yu Christel Renoux Alain Bitton Laurent Azoulay

BMJ 2018 03 21;360:k872. Epub 2018 Mar 21.

Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada H3T 1E2.

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March 2018

Patients' perception of their involvement in shared treatment decision making: Key factors in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease.

Authors:
Sophie Veilleux Isabelle Noiseux Nathalie Lachapelle Rita Kohen Luc Vachon Brian White Guay Alain Bitton John D Rioux

Patient Educ Couns 2018 02 25;101(2):331-339. Epub 2017 Jul 25.

Department of Medicine, Université de Montréal & Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Canada.

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February 2018

Quality of care indicators in inflammatory bowel disease in a tertiary referral center with open access and objective assessment policies.

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Lorant Gonczi Zsuzsanna Kurti Petra Anna Golovics Barbara Dorottya Lovasz Orsolya Menyhart Anna Seres Liza Dalma Sumegi Alexander Gal Akos Ilias Papp Janos Krisztina Barbara Gecse Talat Bessisow Waqqas Afif Alain Bitton Zsuzsanna Vegh Peter Laszlo Lakatos

Dig Liver Dis 2018 Jan 9;50(1):37-41. Epub 2017 Oct 9.

First Department of Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary; Division of Gastroenterology, McGill University, MUHC, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada. Electronic address:

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January 2018

Vitamin B12 deficiency in inflammatory bowel disease: a prospective observational pilot study.

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Robert Battat Uri Kopylov Joshua Byer Maida J Sewitch Elham Rahme Hacene Nedjar Elana Zelikovic Serge Dionne Talat Bessissow Waqqas Afif Paula J Waters Ernest Seidman Alain Bitton

Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2017 Dec;29(12):1361-1367

aDivision of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre bDivision of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre cDepartment of Medicine, McGill University dDivision of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal eMedical Genetics Service, Department of Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS), University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke fDepartment of Gastroenterology, Sheba Medical Center Tel Hashomer and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

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December 2017

Association Between Ustekinumab Trough Concentrations and Clinical, Biomarker, and Endoscopic Outcomes in Patients With Crohn's Disease.

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Robert Battat Uri Kopylov Talat Bessissow Alain Bitton Albert Cohen Anjali Jain Myriam Martel Ernest Seidman Waqqas Afif

Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2017 Sep 29;15(9):1427-1434.e2. Epub 2017 Mar 29.

Division of Gastroenterology, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada. Electronic address:

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September 2017

Rural and Urban Residence During Early Life is Associated with Risk of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Population-Based Inception and Birth Cohort Study

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Eric I Benchimol Gilaad G Kaplan Anthony R Otley Geoffrey C Nguyen Fox E Underwood Astrid Guttmann Jennifer L Jones Beth K Potter Christina A Catley Zoann J Nugent Yunsong Cui Divine Tanyingoh Nassim Mojaverian Alain Bitton Matthew W Carroll Jennifer deBruyn Trevor J B Dummer Wael El-Matary Anne M Griffiths Kevan Jacobson M Ellen Kuenzig Desmond Leddin Lisa M Lix David R Mack Sanjay K Murthy Juan Nicolás Peña Sánchez Harminder Singh Laura E Targownik Maria Vutcovici Charles N Bernstein

Am J Gastroenterol 2017 09 25;112(9):1412-1422. Epub 2017 Jul 25.

University of Manitoba IBD Clinical and Research Centre, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.

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September 2017

Corrigendum: Rural and Urban Residence During Early Life Is Associated with a Lower Risk of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Population-Based Inception and Birth Cohort Study.

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Eric I Benchimol Gilaad G Kaplan Anthony R Otley Geoffrey C Nguyen Fox E Underwood Astrid Guttmann Jennifer L Jones Beth K Potter Christina A Catley Zoann J Nugent Yunsong Cui Divine Tanyingoh Nassim Mojaverian Alain Bitton Matthew W Carroll Jennifer deBruyn Trevor J B Dummer Wael El-Matary Anne M Griffiths Kevan Jacobson M Ellen Kuenzig Desmond Leddin Lisa M Lix David R Mack Sanjay K Murthy Juan Nicolás Peña Sánchez Harminder Singh Laura E Targownik Maria Vutcovici Charles N Bernstein

Am J Gastroenterol 2017 Sep 22;112(9):1485. Epub 2017 Aug 22.

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September 2017

Appendectomy does not decrease the risk of future colectomy in UC: results from a large cohort and meta-analysis.

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Alyssa Parian Berkeley Limketkai Joyce Koh Steven R Brant Alain Bitton Judy H Cho Richard H Duerr Dermot P McGovern Deborah D Proctor Miguel D Regueiro John D Rioux Phil Schumm Kent D Taylor Mark S Silverberg A Hillary Steinhart Ruben Hernaez Mark Lazarev

Gut 2017 08 13;66(8):1390-1397. Epub 2016 Apr 13.

Division of Gastroenterology, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

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August 2017

Trends in Epidemiology of Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Canada: Distributed Network Analysis of Multiple Population-Based Provincial Health Administrative Databases.

Authors:
Eric I Benchimol Charles N Bernstein Alain Bitton Matthew W Carroll Harminder Singh Anthony R Otley Maria Vutcovici Wael El-Matary Geoffrey C Nguyen Anne M Griffiths David R Mack Kevan Jacobson Nassim Mojaverian Divine Tanyingoh Yunsong Cui Zoann J Nugent Janie Coulombe Laura E Targownik Jennifer L Jones Desmond Leddin Sanjay K Murthy Gilaad G Kaplan

Am J Gastroenterol 2017 Jul 18;112(7):1120-1134. Epub 2017 Apr 18.

Department of Medicine, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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July 2017

Thiopurines in the Management of Crohn's Disease: Safety and Efficacy Profile in Patients with Normal TPMT Activity-A Retrospective Study.

Authors:
Amine Benmassaoud Xuanqian Xie Motaz AlYafi Yves Theoret Alain Bitton Waqqas Afif Talat Bessissow

Can J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2016 29;2016:1034834. Epub 2016 Mar 29.

Division of Gastroenterology, McGill University Health Center, 1650 Cedar Avenue, C7-200, Montreal, QC, Canada H3G 1A4.

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March 2017

Treatment Algorithm for Chronic Idiopathic Constipation and Constipation-Predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome Derived from a Canadian National Survey and Needs Assessment on Choices of Therapeutic Agents.

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Yvonne Tse David Armstrong Christopher N Andrews Alain Bitton Brian Bressler John Marshall Louis W C Liu

Can J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2017 8;2017:8612189. Epub 2017 Feb 8.

University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

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March 2017

Genetic Predictors of Benign Course of Ulcerative Colitis-A North American Inflammatory Bowel Disease Genetics Consortium Study.

Authors:
Uri Kopylov Gabrielle Boucher Matti Waterman Claudia R Rivers Mohini Patel Judy H Cho Jean F Colombel Richard H Duerr David Binion Dermot P B McGovern Phillip P Schumm Steven R Brant Mark S Silverberg John D Rioux Alain Bitton

Inflamm Bowel Dis 2016 10;22(10):2311-6

*Division of Gastroenterology, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; †Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; ‡Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; §Division of Gastroenterology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ‖Division of Gastroenterology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; ¶Section of Digestive Diseases, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; **Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York; ††Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York; ‡‡Translational Genomics Group, F. Widjaja Inflammatory Bowel and Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California; §§Division of Gastroenterology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; and ‖‖Meyerhoff Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Center, Division of Gastroenterology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

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October 2016

Inflammatory bowel disease and airway diseases.

Authors:
Maria Vutcovici Paul Brassard Alain Bitton

World J Gastroenterol 2016 Sep;22(34):7735-41

Maria Vutcovici, Alain Bitton, Division of Gastroenterology, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Québec H3G 1A4, Canada.

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September 2016

Incidence and Predictors of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease by Serum Biomarkers in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Authors:
Talat Bessissow Ngoc Han Le Kathleen Rollet Waqqas Afif Alain Bitton Giada Sebastiani

Inflamm Bowel Dis 2016 08;22(8):1937-44

*Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and†Chronic Viral Illness Service, Department of Medicine, Montreal Chest Institute, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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August 2016

Androgen Deprivation Therapy and the Incidence of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Patients With Prostate Cancer.

Authors:
Adi J Klil-Drori Koray Tascilar Hui Yin Armen Aprikian Alain Bitton Laurent Azoulay

Am J Epidemiol 2016 07 6;184(1):15-22. Epub 2016 Jun 6.

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July 2016

Inflammatory bowel disease and risk of mortality in COPD.

Authors:
Maria Vutcovici Alain Bitton Pierre Ernst Abbas Kezouh Samy Suissa Paul Brassard

Eur Respir J 2016 05 11;47(5):1357-64. Epub 2016 Feb 11.

Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, QC, Canada

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May 2016

Mortality Trends in Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis: A Population-based Study in Québec, Canada.

Authors:
Alain Bitton Maria Vutcovici Maida Sewitch Samy Suissa Paul Brassard

Inflamm Bowel Dis 2016 Feb;22(2):416-23

*Division of Gastroenterology, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada; †Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada; and ‡Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, QC, Canada.

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February 2016

Early combined immunosuppression for the management of Crohn's disease (REACT): a cluster randomised controlled trial.

Authors:
Reena Khanna Brian Bressler Barrett G Levesque Guangyong Zou Larry W Stitt Gordon R Greenberg Remo Panaccione Alain Bitton Pierre Paré Séverine Vermeire Geert D'Haens Donald MacIntosh William J Sandborn Allan Donner Margaret K Vandervoort Joan C Morris Brian G Feagan

Lancet 2015 Nov 3;386(10006):1825-34. Epub 2015 Sep 3.

Robarts Clinical Trials Inc, Robarts Research Institute, London, ON, Canada; Department of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada. Electronic address:

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November 2015

The Modified Mayo Endoscopic Score (MMES): A New Index for the Assessment of Extension and Severity of Endoscopic Activity in Ulcerative Colitis Patients.

Authors:
Triana Lobatón Talat Bessissow Gert De Hertogh Bart Lemmens Chelsea Maedler Gert Van Assche Séverine Vermeire Raf Bisschops Paul Rutgeerts Alain Bitton Waqqas Afif Victoria Marcus Marc Ferrante

J Crohns Colitis 2015 Oct 26;9(10):846-52. Epub 2015 Jun 26.

Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospitals Leuven, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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October 2015

Thiopurines in the management of Crohn disease: Safety and efficacy profile in patients with normal thiopurine S-methyl transferase activity - a retrospective study.

Authors:
Amine Benmassaoud Xuanqian Xie Motaz AlYafi Yves Theoret Alain Bitton Waqqas Afif Talat Bessissow

Can J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2015 Oct 15. Epub 2015 Oct 15.

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October 2015

Risk of Lymphoma, Colorectal and Skin Cancer in Patients with IBD Treated with Immunomodulators and Biologics: A Quebec Claims Database Study.

Authors:
Uri Kopylov Maria Vutcovici Abbas Kezouh Ernest Seidman Alain Bitton Waqqas Afif

Inflamm Bowel Dis 2015 Aug;21(8):1847-53

*Division of Gastroenterology, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, QC, Canada; †Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; and ‡Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montreal, QC, Canada.

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August 2015

The probiotic VSL#3 has anti-inflammatory effects and could reduce endoscopic recurrence after surgery for Crohn's disease.

Authors:
Richard N Fedorak Brian G Feagan Naomi Hotte Des Leddin Levinus A Dieleman Denis M Petrunia Robert Enns Alain Bitton Naoki Chiba Pierre Paré Alaa Rostom John Marshall William Depew Charles N Bernstein Remo Panaccione Guy Aumais A Hillary Steinhart Alan Cockeram Robert J Bailey Paolo Gionchetti Cindy Wong Karen Madsen

Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2015 May 6;13(5):928-35.e2. Epub 2014 Nov 6.

Division of Gastroenterology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

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May 2015

Clinical practice guidelines for the medical management of nonhospitalized ulcerative colitis: the Toronto consensus.

Authors:
Brian Bressler John K Marshall Charles N Bernstein Alain Bitton Jennifer Jones Grigorios I Leontiadis Remo Panaccione A Hillary Steinhart Francis Tse Brian Feagan

Gastroenterology 2015 May 4;148(5):1035-1058.e3. Epub 2015 Mar 4.

Robarts Research Institute, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.

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May 2015

Increased incidence of inflammatory bowel disease in Québec residents with airway diseases.

Authors:
Paul Brassard Maria Vutcovici Pierre Ernst Valérie Patenaude Maida Sewitch Samy Suissa Alain Bitton

Eur Respir J 2015 Apr 18;45(4):962-8. Epub 2014 Nov 18.

McGill University, Faculty of Medicine, Montreal, QC, Canada McGill University Health Centre, Division of Gastroenterology, Montreal, QC, Canada.

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April 2015

Small bowel capsule endoscopy in the management of established Crohn's disease: clinical impact, safety, and correlation with inflammatory biomarkers.

Authors:
Uri Kopylov Artur Nemeth Anastasios Koulaouzidis Richard Makins Gary Wild Waqqas Afif Alain Bitton Gabriele Wurm Johansson Talat Bessissow Rami Eliakim Ervin Toth Ernest G Seidman

Inflamm Bowel Dis 2015 Jan;21(1):93-100

*Division of Gastroenterology, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, QC, Canada; †Department of Gastroenterology, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; ‡Endoscopy Unit, Centre for Liver and Digestive Disorders, The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; §Department of Gastroenterology, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Chetlenham, United Kingdom; and ‖Department of Gastroenterology, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel.

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January 2015

Adalimumab monotherapy versus combination therapy with immunomodulators in patients with Crohn's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Authors:
Uri Kopylov Talal Al-Taweel Mohammad Yaghoobi Benedicte Nauche Alain Bitton Peter L Lakatos Shomron Ben-Horin Waqqas Afif Ernest G Seidman

J Crohns Colitis 2014 Dec 25;8(12):1632-41. Epub 2014 Jul 25.

Division of Gastroenterology, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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December 2014

Time-related bias in administrative health database studies of disease incidence.

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Maria Vutcovici Alain Bitton Maida Sewitch Paul Brassard Valérie Patenaude Samy Suissa

Epidemiology 2014 Nov;25(6):930-2

McGill University Health Centre, Division of Gastroenterology, Montréal, Canada McGill University, Faculty of Medicine, Montréal, Canada Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Canada.

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November 2014

Oral corticosteroids and the risk of serious infections in patients with elderly-onset inflammatory bowel diseases.

Authors:
Paul Brassard Alain Bitton Alain Suissa Liliya Sinyavskaya Valerie Patenaude Samy Suissa

Am J Gastroenterol 2014 Nov 30;109(11):1795-802; quiz 1803. Epub 2014 Sep 30.

Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Lady Davis Research Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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November 2014

Epidemiology of inflammatory bowel disease in Québec: recent trends.

Authors:
Alain Bitton Maria Vutcovici Valérie Patenaude Maida Sewitch Samy Suissa Paul Brassard

Inflamm Bowel Dis 2014 Oct;20(10):1770-6

*Division of Gastroenterology, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada; †Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada; and ‡Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, QC, Canada.

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October 2014

Decline in IBD incidence in Québec: part of the changing epidemiologic pattern in North America.

Authors:
Alain Bitton Maria Vutcovici Valérie Patenaude Maida Sewitch Samy Suissa Paul Brassard

Inflamm Bowel Dis 2014 Oct;20(10):1782-3

*McGill University Health Centre, Division of Gastroenterology, Montréal, QC, Canada †McGill University, Faculty of Medicine, Montréal, QC, Canada ‡Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, QC, Canada.

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October 2014

Vitamin B12 deficiency in inflammatory bowel disease: prevalence, risk factors, evaluation, and management.

Authors:
Robert Battat Uri Kopylov Andrew Szilagyi Anjali Saxena David S Rosenblatt Margaret Warner Talat Bessissow Ernest Seidman Alain Bitton

Inflamm Bowel Dis 2014 Jun;20(6):1120-8

*Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; †Department of Internal Medicine, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; ‡Division of Gastroenterology, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; §Division of Gastroenterology, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; ‖Departments of Human Genetics, Pediatrics, and Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and ¶Division of Hematology, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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June 2014

Deep resequencing of GWAS loci identifies rare variants in CARD9, IL23R and RNF186 that are associated with ulcerative colitis.

Authors:
Mélissa Beaudoin Philippe Goyette Gabrielle Boucher Ken Sin Lo Manuel A Rivas Christine Stevens Azadeh Alikashani Martin Ladouceur David Ellinghaus Leif Törkvist Gautam Goel Caroline Lagacé Vito Annese Alain Bitton Jakob Begun Steve R Brant Francesca Bresso Judy H Cho Richard H Duerr Jonas Halfvarson Dermot P B McGovern Graham Radford-Smith Stefan Schreiber Philip L Schumm Yashoda Sharma Mark S Silverberg Rinse K Weersma Mauro D'Amato Severine Vermeire Andre Franke Guillaume Lettre Ramnik J Xavier Mark J Daly John D Rioux

PLoS Genet 2013 12;9(9):e1003723. Epub 2013 Sep 12.

Montreal Heart Institute, Research Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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March 2014

Methotrexate in combination with infliximab is no more effective than infliximab alone in patients with Crohn's disease.

Authors:
Brian G Feagan John W D McDonald Remo Panaccione Robert A Enns Charles N Bernstein Terry P Ponich Raymond Bourdages Donald G Macintosh Chrystian Dallaire Albert Cohen Richard N Fedorak Pierre Paré Alain Bitton Fred Saibil Frank Anderson Allan Donner Cindy J Wong Guangyong Zou Margaret K Vandervoort Marybeth Hopkins Gordon R Greenberg

Gastroenterology 2014 Mar 21;146(3):681-688.e1. Epub 2013 Nov 21.

Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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March 2014

Consensus statements on the risk, prevention, and treatment of venous thromboembolism in inflammatory bowel disease: Canadian Association of Gastroenterology.

Authors:
Geoffrey C Nguyen Charles N Bernstein Alain Bitton Anthony K Chan Anne M Griffiths Grigorios I Leontiadis William Geerts Brian Bressler J Decker Butzner Marc Carrier Nilesh Chande John K Marshall Chadwick Williams Clive Kearon

Gastroenterology 2014 Mar 22;146(3):835-848.e6. Epub 2014 Jan 22.

Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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March 2014

Overview of subsequent entry biologics for the management of inflammatory bowel disease and Canadian Association of Gastroenterology position statement on subsequent entry biologics.

Authors:
Shane M Devlin Brian Bressler Charles N Bernstein Richard N Fedorak Alain Bitton Harminder Singh Brian G Feagan

Can J Gastroenterol 2013 Oct;27(10):567-71

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October 2013

Developing model-based algorithms to identify screening colonoscopies using administrative health databases.

Authors:
Maida J Sewitch Mengzhu Jiang Lawrence Joseph Robert J Hilsden Alain Bitton

BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 2013 Apr 10;13:45. Epub 2013 Apr 10.

Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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April 2013

Relationship between proximal Crohn's disease location and disease behavior and surgery: a cross-sectional study of the IBD Genetics Consortium.

Authors:
Mark Lazarev Chengrui Huang Alain Bitton Judy H Cho Richard H Duerr Dermot P McGovern Deborah D Proctor Miguel Regueiro John D Rioux Philip P Schumm Kent D Taylor Mark S Silverberg A Hillary Steinhart Susan Hutfless Steven R Brant

Am J Gastroenterol 2013 Jan 11;108(1):106-12. Epub 2012 Dec 11.

Division of Gastroenterology, Meyerhoff Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.

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January 2013

Qualitative study of physician perspectives on classifying screening and nonscreening colonoscopy using administrative health data: adding practice does not make perfect.

Authors:
Maida J Sewitch Robert Hilsden Lawrence Joseph Linda Rabineck Lawrence Paszat Alain Bitton Mary Anne Cooper

Can J Gastroenterol 2012 Dec;26(12):889-93

Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/176714DOI Listing
December 2012

Host-microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease.

Authors:
Luke Jostins Stephan Ripke Rinse K Weersma Richard H Duerr Dermot P McGovern Ken Y Hui James C Lee L Philip Schumm Yashoda Sharma Carl A Anderson Jonah Essers Mitja Mitrovic Kaida Ning Isabelle Cleynen Emilie Theatre Sarah L Spain Soumya Raychaudhuri Philippe Goyette Zhi Wei Clara Abraham Jean-Paul Achkar Tariq Ahmad Leila Amininejad Ashwin N Ananthakrishnan Vibeke Andersen Jane M Andrews Leonard Baidoo Tobias Balschun Peter A Bampton Alain Bitton Gabrielle Boucher Stephan Brand Carsten Büning Ariella Cohain Sven Cichon Mauro D'Amato Dirk De Jong Kathy L Devaney Marla Dubinsky Cathryn Edwards David Ellinghaus Lynnette R Ferguson Denis Franchimont Karin Fransen Richard Gearry Michel Georges Christian Gieger Jürgen Glas Talin Haritunians Ailsa Hart Chris Hawkey Matija Hedl Xinli Hu Tom H Karlsen Limas Kupcinskas Subra Kugathasan Anna Latiano Debby Laukens Ian C Lawrance Charlie W Lees Edouard Louis Gillian Mahy John Mansfield Angharad R Morgan Craig Mowat William Newman Orazio Palmieri Cyriel Y Ponsioen Uros Potocnik Natalie J Prescott Miguel Regueiro Jerome I Rotter Richard K Russell Jeremy D Sanderson Miquel Sans Jack Satsangi Stefan Schreiber Lisa A Simms Jurgita Sventoraityte Stephan R Targan Kent D Taylor Mark Tremelling Hein W Verspaget Martine De Vos Cisca Wijmenga David C Wilson Juliane Winkelmann Ramnik J Xavier Sebastian Zeissig Bin Zhang Clarence K Zhang Hongyu Zhao Mark S Silverberg Vito Annese Hakon Hakonarson Steven R Brant Graham Radford-Smith Christopher G Mathew John D Rioux Eric E Schadt Mark J Daly Andre Franke Miles Parkes Severine Vermeire Jeffrey C Barrett Judy H Cho

Nature 2012 Nov;491(7422):119-24

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1HH, UK.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3491803PMC
November 2012

Inflammatory bowel disease: a Canadian burden of illness review.

Authors:
Angela Rocchi Eric I Benchimol Charles N Bernstein Alain Bitton Brian Feagan Remo Panaccione Kevin W Glasgow Aida Fernandes Subrata Ghosh

Can J Gastroenterol 2012 Nov;26(11):811-7

Axia Research, Burlington, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/984575DOI Listing
November 2012

Rate of serious complications of colonoscopy in Quebec.

Authors:
Maida J Sewitch Mengzhu Jiang Lawrence Joseph Alan N Barkun Alain Bitton

Can J Gastroenterol 2012 Sep;26(9):611-3

Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3441168PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/382149DOI Listing
September 2012

Expression and functional analysis of intestinal organic cation/L-carnitine transporter (OCTN) in Crohn's disease.

Authors:
Marc Girardin Serge Dionne Philippe Goyette John Rioux Alain Bitton Ihsan Elimrani Patrick Charlebois Ijaz Qureshi Emile Levy Ernest G Seidman

J Crohns Colitis 2012 Mar 25;6(2):189-97. Epub 2011 Sep 25.

DigestiveLab, Research Institute, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crohns.2011.08.003DOI Listing
March 2012

Treatment of hospitalized adult patients with severe ulcerative colitis: Toronto consensus statements.

Authors:
Alain Bitton Donald Buie Robert Enns Brian G Feagan Jennifer L Jones John K Marshall Scott Whittaker Anne M Griffiths Remo Panaccione

Am J Gastroenterol 2012 Feb 22;107(2):179-94; author reply 195. Epub 2011 Nov 22.

McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ajg.2011.386DOI Listing
February 2012

Secondary intestinal lymphangiectasia due to multiple myeloma.

Authors:
Mamatha Bhat Pierre Laneuville Errol B Marliss Florin Costea Victoria Marcus Ernest G Seidman Alain Bitton

Gastrointest Endosc 2011 Sep 18;74(3):718-20. Epub 2010 Nov 18.

Division of Gastroenterology, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gie.2010.09.019DOI Listing
September 2011

Comparing patient and endoscopist perceptions of the colonoscopy indication.

Authors:
Maida J Sewitch Dara Stein Lawrence Joseph Alain Bitton Robert J Hilsden Linda Rabeneck Lawrence Paszat Jill Tinmouth Mary Anne Cooper

Can J Gastroenterol 2010 Nov;24(11):656-60

Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/328178DOI Listing
November 2010

Direct and indirect induction by 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 of the NOD2/CARD15-defensin beta2 innate immune pathway defective in Crohn disease.

Authors:
Tian-Tian Wang Basel Dabbas David Laperriere Ari J Bitton Hafid Soualhine Luz E Tavera-Mendoza Serge Dionne Marc J Servant Alain Bitton Ernest G Seidman Sylvie Mader Marcel A Behr John H White

J Biol Chem 2010 Jan 30;285(4):2227-31. Epub 2009 Nov 30.

Department of Physiology, Montreal General Hospital, Canada.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2807280PMC
January 2010

Effects of 12-month tadalafil therapy for erectile dysfunction on couple relationships: results from the DETECT study.

Authors:
Benny Verheyden Thierry Roumeguère Alain Bitton Mark Belger Henry Schmitt

J Sex Med 2009 Dec 14;6(12):3458-68. Epub 2009 Oct 14.

Andrology Unit, Department of Urology, Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1743-6109.2009.01527.xDOI Listing
December 2009

Common variants at five new loci associated with early-onset inflammatory bowel disease.

Authors:
Marcin Imielinski Robert N Baldassano Anne Griffiths Richard K Russell Vito Annese Marla Dubinsky Subra Kugathasan Jonathan P Bradfield Thomas D Walters Patrick Sleiman Cecilia E Kim Aleixo Muise Kai Wang Joseph T Glessner Shehzad Saeed Haitao Zhang Edward C Frackelton Cuiping Hou James H Flory George Otieno Rosetta M Chiavacci Robert Grundmeier Massimo Castro Anna Latiano Bruno Dallapiccola Joanne Stempak Debra J Abrams Kent Taylor Dermot McGovern Gary Silber Iwona Wrobel Antonio Quiros Jeffrey C Barrett Sarah Hansoul Dan L Nicolae Judy H Cho Richard H Duerr John D Rioux Steven R Brant Mark S Silverberg Kent D Taylor M Michael Barmuda Alain Bitton Themistocles Dassopoulos Lisa Wu Datta Todd Green Anne M Griffiths Emily O Kistner Michael T Murtha Miguel D Regueiro Jerome I Rotter L Philip Schumm A Hillary Steinhart Stephen R Targan Ramnik J Xavier Cécile Libioulle Cynthia Sandor Mark Lathrop Jacques Belaiche Olivier Dewit Ivo Gut Simon Heath Debby Laukens Myriam Mni Paul Rutgeerts André Van Gossum Diana Zelenika Denis Franchimont J P Hugot Martine de Vos Severine Vermeire Edouard Louis Lon R Cardon Carl A Anderson Hazel Drummond Elaine Nimmo Tariq Ahmad Natalie J Prescott Clive M Onnie Sheila A Fisher Jonathan Marchini Jilur Ghori Suzannah Bumpstead Rhian Gwillam Mark Tremelling Panos Delukas John Mansfield Derek Jewell Jack Satsangi Christopher G Mathew Miles Parkes Michel Georges Mark J Daly Melvin B Heyman George D Ferry Barbara Kirschner Jessica Lee Jonah Essers Richard Grand Michael Stephens Arie Levine David Piccoli John Van Limbergen Salvatore Cucchiara Dimitri S Monos Stephen L Guthery Lee Denson David C Wilson Straun F A Grant Mark Daly Mark S Silverberg Jack Satsangi Hakon Hakonarson

Nat Genet 2009 Dec 15;41(12):1335-40. Epub 2009 Nov 15.

Center for Applied Genomics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ng.489DOI Listing
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3267927PMC
December 2009

Phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of inflammatory bowel disease in French Canadians: comparison with a large North American repository.

Authors:
Mamatha Bhat Geoffrey C Nguyen Pierre Pare Raymond Lahaie Colette Deslandres Edmond-Jean Bernard Guy Aumais Gilles Jobin Gary Wild Albert Cohen Diane Langelier Steven Brant Themistocles Dassopoulos Dermot McGovern Esther Torres Richard Duerr Miguel Regueiro Mark S Silverberg Hillary Steinhart Anne M Griffiths Abdul Elkadri Judy Cho Deborah Proctor Philippe Goyette John Rioux Alain Bitton

Am J Gastroenterol 2009 Sep 9;104(9):2233-40. Epub 2009 Jun 9.

Division of Gastroenterology, Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ajg.2009.267DOI Listing
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2742627PMC
September 2009

Genetic variation in the familial Mediterranean fever gene (MEFV) and risk for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.

Authors:
Alexandra-Chloé Villani Mathieu Lemire Edouard Louis Mark S Silverberg Catherine Collette Geneviève Fortin Elaine R Nimmo Yannick Renaud Sébastien Brunet Cécile Libioulle Jacques Belaiche Alain Bitton Daniel Gaudet Albert Cohen Diane Langelier John D Rioux Ian D R Arnott Gary E Wild Paul Rutgeerts Jack Satsangi Séverine Vermeire Thomas J Hudson Denis Franchimont

PLoS One 2009 Sep 28;4(9):e7154. Epub 2009 Sep 28.

Department of Gastroenterology, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2745755PMC
September 2009

Epidemiology of Crohn's disease in Québec, Canada.

Authors:
Anne-Marie Lowe Pierre-Olivier Roy Michel B-Poulin Pascal Michel Alain Bitton Laurie St-Onge Paul Brassard

Inflamm Bowel Dis 2009 Mar;15(3):429-35

Faculty of Medicine, University of Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ibd.20756DOI Listing
March 2009

Ciprofloxacin or metronidazole for the treatment of perianal fistulas in patients with Crohn's disease: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot study.

Authors:
Kelvin T Thia Uma Mahadevan Brian G Feagan Cindy Wong Alan Cockeram Alain Bitton Charles N Bernstein William J Sandborn

Inflamm Bowel Dis 2009 Jan;15(1):17-24

Miles & Shirley Fiterman Center for Digestive Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ibd.20608DOI Listing
January 2009

Common variants in the NLRP3 region contribute to Crohn's disease susceptibility.

Authors:
Alexandra-Chloé Villani Mathieu Lemire Geneviève Fortin Edouard Louis Mark S Silverberg Catherine Collette Nobuyasu Baba Cécile Libioulle Jacques Belaiche Alain Bitton Daniel Gaudet Albert Cohen Diane Langelier Paul R Fortin Joan E Wither Marika Sarfati Paul Rutgeerts John D Rioux Severine Vermeire Thomas J Hudson Denis Franchimont

Nat Genet 2009 Jan 21;41(1):71-6. Epub 2008 Dec 21.

Division of Gastroenterology, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ng.285DOI Listing
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2728932PMC
January 2009

Treatment of active Crohn's disease with MLN0002, a humanized antibody to the alpha4beta7 integrin.

Authors:
Brian G Feagan Gordon R Greenberg Gary Wild Richard N Fedorak Pierre Paré John W D McDonald Albert Cohen Alain Bitton Jeffrey Baker Réjean Dubé Steven B Landau Margaret K Vandervoort Asit Parikh

Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2008 Dec 1;6(12):1370-7. Epub 2008 Oct 1.

Robarts Clinical Trials, Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2008.06.007DOI Listing
December 2008

Is IBD caused by a Helicobacter pylori infection?

Authors:
Carlo A Fallone Alain Bitton

Inflamm Bowel Dis 2008 Oct;14 Suppl 2:S37-8

Division of Gastroenterology, McGill University Health Center, Quebec, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ibd.20552DOI Listing
October 2008

Genome-wide association defines more than 30 distinct susceptibility loci for Crohn's disease.

Authors:
Jeffrey C Barrett Sarah Hansoul Dan L Nicolae Judy H Cho Richard H Duerr John D Rioux Steven R Brant Mark S Silverberg Kent D Taylor M Michael Barmada Alain Bitton Themistocles Dassopoulos Lisa Wu Datta Todd Green Anne M Griffiths Emily O Kistner Michael T Murtha Miguel D Regueiro Jerome I Rotter L Philip Schumm A Hillary Steinhart Stephan R Targan Ramnik J Xavier Cécile Libioulle Cynthia Sandor Mark Lathrop Jacques Belaiche Olivier Dewit Ivo Gut Simon Heath Debby Laukens Myriam Mni Paul Rutgeerts André Van Gossum Diana Zelenika Denis Franchimont Jean-Pierre Hugot Martine de Vos Severine Vermeire Edouard Louis Lon R Cardon Carl A Anderson Hazel Drummond Elaine Nimmo Tariq Ahmad Natalie J Prescott Clive M Onnie Sheila A Fisher Jonathan Marchini Jilur Ghori Suzannah Bumpstead Rhian Gwilliam Mark Tremelling Panos Deloukas John Mansfield Derek Jewell Jack Satsangi Christopher G Mathew Miles Parkes Michel Georges Mark J Daly

Nat Genet 2008 Aug 29;40(8):955-62. Epub 2008 Jun 29.

Bioinformatics and Statistical Genetics, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ng.175DOI Listing
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2574810PMC
August 2008

Therapeutic response after first month of tadalafil treatment predicts 12 months treatment continuation in patients with erectile dysfunction: results from the DETECT study.

Authors:
Thierry Roumeguère Benny Verheyden Stefan Arver Alain Bitton Mark Belger Henry Schmitt

J Sex Med 2008 Jul;5(7):1708-19

Erasme Hospital, Brussels, Belgium.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1743-6109.2008.00790.xDOI Listing
July 2008

Visualization of Mycobacterium avium in Crohn's tissue by oil-immersion microscopy.

Authors:
Mangalakumari Jeyanathan Odette Boutros-Tadros Jasim Radhi Makeda Semret Alain Bitton Marcel A Behr

Microbes Infect 2007 Nov-Dec;9(14-15):1567-73. Epub 2007 Sep 11.

Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1A4, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.micinf.2007.09.001DOI Listing
March 2008

Elective management of transitional cell carcinoma of the distal ureter: can kidney-sparing surgery be advised?

Authors:
Gianluca Giannarini Martin C Schumacher George N Thalmann Alain Bitton Achim Fleischmann Urs E Studer

BJU Int 2007 Aug 26;100(2):264-8. Epub 2007 May 26.

Department of Urology, University of Bern, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1464-410X.2007.06993.xDOI Listing
August 2007

No evidence of persisting measles virus in the intestinal tissues of patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

Authors:
Yasmin D'Souza Serge Dionne Ernest G Seidman Alain Bitton Brian J Ward

Gut 2007 Jun;56(6):886-8

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/gut.2006.119065DOI Listing
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1954854PMC
June 2007