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A timely diagnosis of primary sclerosing cholangitis in IBD

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Although a colonoscopy for the evaluation of IBD and the surveillance of colitis-associated neoplasia should be performed at the time of the diagnosis of primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), the results from a new study suggest that screening for PSC with magnetic resonance cholangiography in patients with long-term IBD might be needed.

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Figure 1: A proposed model for the disease spectrum and overlaps of immune-mediated disorders of the gut and liver.

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Shen, B. A timely diagnosis of primary sclerosing cholangitis in IBD. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 13, 565–566 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrgastro.2016.130

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