The Research Roundup provides an overview of the past week’s research from Mayo Medical Laboratories consultants, including featured abstracts and complete list of published studies and reviews.
Featured Abstract
Development of a Microscopic Colitis Disease Activity Index: A Prospective Cohort Study
Microscopic colitis (MC) is a common cause of chronic diarrhoea, often with additional symptoms. No validated instruments exist to assess disease activity in MC, making it difficult to compare efficacy of treatments between clinical trials. Mayo Clinic researchers aimed to identify clinical features that independently predicted disease severity and to create a microscopic colitis disease activity index (MCDAI). Patients with MC were prospectively administered a survey assessing their GI symptoms and the IBD questionnaire (IBDQ). A single investigator also scored a physician global assessment (PGA) of disease severity on a 10-point scale. Multiple linear regression identified which symptoms best predicted the PGA. These symptoms were then combined in a weighted formula to create the MCDAI. The relationship between MCDAI and the IBDQ was investigated. The MCDAI strongly predicted the PGA and correlated with a validated measure of quality of life. Several symptoms in addition to diarrhoea are associated with disease severity in MC. The study was published in Gut.
Published to PubMed This Week
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- Folate Receptor Alpha Peptide Vaccine Generates Immunity in Breast and Ovarian Cancer Patients
Clinical Cancer Research - Diagnostic Stewardship: Opportunity for a Laboratory-Infectious Diseases Partnership
Clinical Infectious Diseases - Mediastinal Synovial Sarcoma: Clinicopathologic Analysis of 21 Cases With Molecular Confirmation
American Journal of Surgical Pathology - Thyroglobulin Measurement in the Management of Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences - Uterine Serous Carcinoma: Reassessing Effectiveness of Platinum-Based Adjuvant Therapy
Gynecologic Oncology - Blood Gas Sample Spiking with Total Parenteral Nutrition, Lipid Emulsion, and Concentrated Dextrose Solutions as a Model for Predicting Sample Contamination Based on Glucose Result
Clinical Biochemistry
- Folate Receptor Alpha Peptide Vaccine Generates Immunity in Breast and Ovarian Cancer Patients
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