Crohn's disease is transmural granulomatous inflammation of any GI segment (skip lesions). Terminal ileum most common. Complications: fistulas, strictures, abscesses. Biologics have transformed management.
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What is Crohn's disease?Crohn's disease is a chronic (long-lasting) disease that causes inflammation in your digestive tract. It can affect any part of your digestive tract, which runs from your mouth to your anus. But it usually affects your small intestine and the beginning of your large intestine.Crohn's disease is an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Ulcerative colitis and microscopic colitis are other common ty…
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Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic, incurable condition associated with inflammation in the gut lining. It causes diarrhoea, severe abdominal pain, poor nutrition and adversely affects the quality of life of sufferers. Two of the best treat…
The goal of this prospective observational study is to determine if specific microbiome signatures can predict therapeutic responses in adult patients with Crohn's disease (CD), a form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), living in British…
60% of patients with Crohn's disease will undergo surgery during their lifetime and without recurrence prevention treatment, 80% of patients will have an endoscopic recurrence within 1 year of surgery. This procedure is performed as close…
With this prospective, randomized, multicentre, parallel group pragmatic non-inferiority trial, the investigators will evaluate if endoscopy-driven introduction of biological therapy is not leading to more postoperative endoscopic recurren…
People living with Crohn's disease (CD) experience psychological and emotional symptoms, in addition to known chronic and disabling physical symptoms, which prevent them from living their life to the fullest (flourishing). Depression and a…
Interventional study of a group of patients with an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD; Crohn's disease (CD) or ulcerative colitis (UC)) to identify predictive and prognostic biomarkers of natural history and response to biotherapies.
Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) represent a group of immune-mediated disorders, in which currently unidentified trigger factors drive the manifestation of chronic relapsing- remitting destructive inflammatory episodes in the gut. IBD com…
Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that can dramatically affect the quality of life of patients. Due to its transmural nature (involvement of the entire thickness of the intestinal wall), it naturally progre…
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