Patients with Crohn’s disease who have a relative lack of intestinal microbial diversity during surgery may be at increased risk for recurrent illness after surgery, according to a multicenter European study.
The research, presented at the United European Gastroenterology Week 2016 (abstract OP236), could hold important clinical implications, the investigators said.
“If our results are confirmed in additional studies, one can imagine clinicians looking at the microbiome at the time of