A home point-of care FCP test and a self-reported clinical disease activity program may improve routine monitoring of IBD activity during pregnancy

In a pilot feasibility study, our clinical research team from Mount Sinai Hospital/University of Toronto and Women’s College Hospital found that tight control management using remote monitoring may be feasible among pregnant patients with IBD.

This suggests that a combination of both clinical scores and objective disease markers may better predict disease activity.

Optimizing maternal and neonatal outcomes through tight control management of inflammatory bowel disease during pregnancy: a pilot feasibility study. R Jogendran, K O’Connor, A Jeyakumar, P Tandon, G Nguyen, C Maxwell & V Huang. Sci Rep 13, 8291 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-35332-z. Online ahead of print.