Role of Intestinal Fatty Acid Binding Protein in Treated Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Patients | ||
| Benha Medical Journal | ||
| Article 5, Volume 41, Issue 2, May and June 2024, Pages 49-55 PDF (440.9 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/bmfj.2024.242037.1920 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Reda Mohamed ElBadawy1; Hatem Samir Alegaily1; Kamal El-Deen Abdelrahman Mohamed El Atrebi2; Eman Mohamed Araby3; Amal Ahmed Mohamed4; Mohamed Samy Ezzat* 1 | ||
| 1Department of Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Infectious diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Benha University. | ||
| 2Department of internal medicine and gastroenterology, National Hepatology and Tropical Medicine Research Institute, Cairo. | ||
| 3Department of Public health / family medicine Faculty of Medicine, Benha University. | ||
| 4Department of Biochemistry, National Hepatology and Tropical Medicine Research Institute, Cairo. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are a heterogeneous group of chronic relapsing diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Intestinal fatty acid- binding proteins (I-FABP) defined as circulating or urinary markers of intestinal epithelial damage in patients with acute ischemia of the small bowel. Aim and objectives: to evaluate I-FABP level in the follow up of treated IBD patients compared to healthy control subjects. Subjects and methods: A case control study which included 60 patients was diagnosed IBD divided into equal two groups according to conventional or biological treatment and 30 healthy control subjects, aged from 16-70 years old. All investigations done accordingly plus I-FABP by Eliza. Results: In IBD females were 53% in conventional group. Laboratory findings were of statistical significant as regard higher Hb and lower number of platelets in biological group compared with conventional group, p value was .024 &.006 respectively. FABP levels were significantly elevated in studied IBD cases compared to control group, p value was .000 common complaint was abdominal pain in conventional group (70% versus 43.3% in biological group), while diarrhea was the most common in biological group (50% versus 20% in conventional group). Colonic left sided lesions in both groups. Cut off value of plasma FABP was 4.65 for all IBD patients with an AUC 98%, 77% and 0.992 respectively. Conclusion: I-FABP proved to be a useful biological marker in the diagnosis of IBD and can be used to monitor the progress of IBD. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Intestinal Fatty; Acid Binding Protein (I-FABP); Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) | ||
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