February 2020 Alert Items 1 - 153 of 153 1. Tech Coloproctol. 2020 Feb 28. doi: 10.1007/s10151-020-02173-1. [Epub ahead of print] Visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissue as markers of local and systemic inflammation: a comparison between celiac and obese patients using MRI. Picarelli A 1 , Borghini R 2 , Marino M 1 , Casale R 1 , Di Tola M 1 , Lubrano C 3 , Piermattei A 4 , Gualdi G 5 , Bella A 6 , Donato G 7 , Masselli G 5 . Author information: 1. Department of Translational and Precision Medicine, Gastroenterology Unit, Policlinico Umberto I, Sapienza University, Viale del Policlinico, 155, 00161, Rome, Italy. 2. Department of Translational and Precision Medicine, Gastroenterology Unit, Policlinico Umberto I, Sapienza University, Viale del Policlinico, 155, 00161, Rome, Italy. raffaele.borghini@uniroma1.it. 3. Department of Experimental Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy. 4. Department of Surgical Sciences, "F. Durante" Section, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy. 5. Department of Radiology, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy. 6. Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore Di Sanità, Rome, Italy. 7. Department of Clinical Medicine, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy. Abstract BACKGROUND: Celiac disease (CD) is a systemic inflammatory disease, which primarily affects the gastrointestinal tract. It has been recently demonstrated that adipose-tissue infiltration by proinflammatory immune cells causes a chronic low-grade inflammation in obese patients. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has already proved to be useful in evaluation of inflammatory states. The aim of the present study