Establishment of a National Surgical Tissue Biobank for Pediatric Crohn's Disease: An Implementation Feasibility Study
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E. Paul Lerner, Nazanin Arjomand Fard, John Maringa Githaka, Naomi Hotte, Chisom Ezeh, Hien Q. Huynh, Eytan Wine, Troy Perry
Topic overview
Crohn's disease (CD) is a lifelong gastrointestinal inflammatory condition that often requires surgery, particularly for patients diagnosed in childhood. CD has been linked to a combination of microbial, genetic, and environmental factors, but pathogenesis remains unknown. We outline a framework for multicenter surgical biobanking across a large geographic area, required to enable meaningful research, and evaluate feasibility using the 2016 Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) extension to randomized pilot and feasibility trials.
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