Claudio Fiocchi

Background: Mesenteric fat wrapping around the intestinal wall, so called ‘creeping fat’ (CF), is spatially linked with stricture formation in Crohn’s disease (CD)…

BACKGROUND: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)-associated intestinal fibrosis is a significant clinical problem. Excessive accumulation of extracellular matrix (ECM) derived from intestinal myofibroblasts (HIMF) is a hallmark of intestinal strictures…