Endoscopic balloon dilation of Crohn’s disease strictures-safety, efficacy and clinical impact
Susana Lopes, Eduardo Rodrigues-Pinto, Patrícia Andrade, Joana Afonso, Todd H Baron, Fernando Magro, Guilherme Macedo
Susana Lopes, Eduardo Rodrigues-Pinto, Patrícia Andrade, Fernando Magro, Guilherme Macedo, Gastroenterology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Hospital de São João, Porto 4200-319, Portugal
Joana Afonso, Fernando Magro, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Porto, Porto 4200-319, Portugal
Todd H Baron, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 4200, United States
Author contributions: Lopes S and Rodrigues-Pinto E contributed equally in the design, conception, analysis, and paper writing; Lopes S, Rodrigues-Pinto E and Magro F conceived and designed the study; Lopes S, Rodrigues-Pinto E and Andrade P collected and analyzed the data; Afonso J performed all laboratorial procedures; Rodrigues-Pinto E and Andrade P were responsible for statistical analysis; Baron TH, Magro F and Macedo G participated in critical revision of the manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Centro Hospitalar São João, Porto, Portugal.
Informed consent statement: All patients gave informed written consent to participate in the study.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors of this manuscript have no conflict of interest to declare.
Data sharing statement: There is no additional data available.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Guilherme Macedo MD, PhD, Department of Gastroenterology, Centro Hospitalar São João, Alameda Professor Hernani Monteiro, Porto 4200-319, Portugal. guilhermemacedo59@gmail.com
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Received: August 16, 2017
Peer-review started: August 19, 2017
First decision: August 30, 2017
Revised: September 11, 2017
Accepted: September 20, 2017
Article in press: September 19, 2017
Published online: November 7, 2017
