Weiwei Liu

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

_INTRODUCTION:_ Despite effective anti-inflammatory therapies, ~70% of CD patients require surgery in their lifetime, due to fibrostenotic strictures linked to excess extracellular matrix (ECM) deposition…