Martinus A Cozijnsen1, Assaf Ben Shoham2, Ben Kang3, Byung-Ho Choe3, Yon Ho Choe4, Maria M E Jongsma1, Richard K Russell5, Frank M Ruemmele6, Johanna C Escher1, Lissy de Ridder1, Sibylle Koletzko7, Javier Martín-de-Carpi8, Jeffrey Hyams9, Thomas Walters10, Anne Griffiths10, Dan Turner11. 1. Erasmus MC-Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. 2. Clalit Health Services, Jerusalem, Israel. 3. Kyungpook National University Children's Hospital, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea. 4. Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. 5. Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow, Scotland. 6. Université Paris Descartes - Sorbonne Paris Cité, APHP- Hôpital Necker Enfants Malades, Service de Gastroentérologie, Paris, France. 7. Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, LMU, Munich, Germany. 8. Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain. 9. Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford, Connecticut. 10. Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada. 11. Shaare Zedek Medical Center, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Electronic address: turnerd@szmc.org.il.
Abstract
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Mucosal healing (MH) has become a goal of therapy for Crohn's disease (CD), but frequent endoscopies are not feasible. We aimed to develop and validate a non-invasive index to assess mucosal inflammation in children with CD. METHODS: We collected data from the multi-center prospective ImageKids study, in which children with CD underwent ileocolonoscopy with magnetic resonance enterography. We investigated the association of pediatric CD activity index (PCDAI) items and laboratory test results with the simple endoscopic score for CD (SESCD). We used these data in a blended mathematical judgmental clinimetric approach to develop a weighted categorized index to identify children with CD who have MH, which we called the MINI index. We validated the index using data from 3 independent patient cohorts. The derivation and validation cohorts included 154 and 168 children, respectively (age 14.1 ± 2.5 years and 14.2 ± 3.9 years), of whom 16% and 36% had MH (defined as SESCD<3). RESULTS: In multivariable models, the stooling item of the PCDAI, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and level of fecal calprotectin were associated with SESCD (all P < .05). We added data on level of C-reactive protein to develop the MINI index. MINI scores below 8 identified children with MH with 88% sensitivity and 85% specificity in the derivation cohort and with 84% sensitivity and 87% specificity in the validation cohorts. Ninety percent of the patients in the validation cohort with scores of 8 or more had active mucosal inflammation, yet 78% of patients with scores below 8 had MH. Scores below 6 increase the positive predictive value to 86%. CONCLUSIONS: We developed an index to non-invasively assess mucosal inflammation in children with CD. This index, identifies children with MH with high sensitivity and specificity. The added benefit of MINI over measurement of fecal calprotectin was small but significant, especially for patients with concentrations of fecal calprotectin from 100 to 599 μg/g. ClinicalTrials.gov no: NCT01881490.
BACKGROUND & AIMS:Mucosal healing (MH) has become a goal of therapy for Crohn's disease (CD), but frequent endoscopies are not feasible. We aimed to develop and validate a non-invasive index to assess mucosal inflammation in children with CD. METHODS: We collected data from the multi-center prospective ImageKids study, in which children with CD underwent ileocolonoscopy with magnetic resonance enterography. We investigated the association of pediatric CD activity index (PCDAI) items and laboratory test results with the simple endoscopic score for CD (SESCD). We used these data in a blended mathematical judgmental clinimetric approach to develop a weighted categorized index to identify children with CD who have MH, which we called the MINI index. We validated the index using data from 3 independent patient cohorts. The derivation and validation cohorts included 154 and 168 children, respectively (age 14.1 ± 2.5 years and 14.2 ± 3.9 years), of whom 16% and 36% had MH (defined as SESCD<3). RESULTS: In multivariable models, the stooling item of the PCDAI, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and level of fecal calprotectin were associated with SESCD (all P < .05). We added data on level of C-reactive protein to develop the MINI index. MINI scores below 8 identified children with MH with 88% sensitivity and 85% specificity in the derivation cohort and with 84% sensitivity and 87% specificity in the validation cohorts. Ninety percent of the patients in the validation cohort with scores of 8 or more had active mucosal inflammation, yet 78% of patients with scores below 8 had MH. Scores below 6 increase the positive predictive value to 86%. CONCLUSIONS: We developed an index to non-invasively assess mucosal inflammation in children with CD. This index, identifies children with MH with high sensitivity and specificity. The added benefit of MINI over measurement of fecal calprotectin was small but significant, especially for patients with concentrations of fecal calprotectin from 100 to 599 μg/g. ClinicalTrials.gov no: NCT01881490.
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