ILEAL ENTEROCYTE BRUSH BORDER ABNORMALITIES ASSOCIATE WITH PROGRESSIVE DISEASE COURSE IN PEDIATRICS CROHN’S DISEASE

Biomarkers are needed to identify the subset of Crohn’s disease (CD) patients at-risk for severe, treatment-refractory disease. Short ileal microvillus length (MVL) is an epithelial biomarker that predicted non-response to treatment in adult CD. Here, we hypothesized that short MVL phenotype would occur in pediatric CD and associate with more severe disease.

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