Table 1.

Profiles of patients from which mucosal biopsies were collected.

Pt #	Symptoms	Medication	Pathology	Endoscopy
1	none	none	normal tissue	none
2	none	none	normal tissue	none
3	none	none	normal tissue	none
4	none	none	normal tissue	none
5	flare-up, 15–20 bm/d	Steroids, biologic	chronic inflammation, severe activity	pancolitis, Mayo 3 distal, 2 proximal
6	flare-up, 10 bm/d	none	chronic inflammation, moderate to severe activity	pancolitis, Mayo 2
7	chronic active, 4 bm/d	none	chronic inflammation, mild activity	proctitis, Mayo 1
8	chronic active, 2–3 bm/d	5-ASA	chronic inflammation, marked activity	pancolitis, Mayo 3 distal, 2 proximal
9	new onset, 6–8 bm/d	none	chronic inflammation, moderate activity	pancolitis, Mayo 2
10	chronic active, 12 bm/d*	Steroid enema, 5-ASA	chronic inflammation, mild activity	proctitis, Mayo 2
11	flare-up, 6–8 bm/d	Imuran	acute, chronic inflammation, deep ulcers	ileocolitis, deep ulcers
12	flare-up, 4–5 bm/d	5-ASA	chronic inflammation, severe activity	colitis
13	flare-up, pain, +2 bm/d	5-ASA	normal tissue; chronic stricture with no active inflammation	ileal stricture, blind biopsies
14	flare-up, 2–5 bm/day	none	chronic inflammation, moderate activity	pancolitis, Mayo 1–2

5-ASA = 5 aminosalicylic acid; *mucous, but infrequent stool; **suspected flare up initially but with further imaging dx. with chronic stricture with no active inflammation; bm = bowel movement, most were bloody.