ALLMedicine™ Crohn Disease Center

Jan 16th, 2021 - Transmural healing (TH) is associated with better long-term outcomes in Crohn disease (CD), whereas pretreatment ileal gene signatures encoding myeloid inflammatory responses and extracellular matrix production are associated with stricturing. We ...

Jan 15th, 2021 - Endocrine complications such as impaired growth, delayed puberty, and low bone mineral density (BMD) can be associated with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in children and adolescents. This study was performed to investigate the frequency, charac...

Jan 12th, 2021 - Proinflammatory cytokines play an important role in abdominal surgery and are often associated with the development of postoperative ileus, especially in Crohn disease. The aim of this study was to investigate proinflammatory cytokine levels in me...

Jan 12th, 2021 - Growth delay with height and weight impairment is a common feature of pediatric inflammatory bowel diseases (PIBD). Up to 2/3 of Crohn Disease patients have impaired weight at diagnosis, and up to 1/3 have impaired height. Ulcerative colitis usual...

Jan 7th, 2021 - Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (US) of the bowel wall has been suggested as an alternative imaging modality for the follow-up of children with Crohn disease. To evaluate the diagnostic performance of contrast-enhanced US in the estimation of Crohn d...

May 5th, 2020 - Three common clinical scenarios involving use of imaging in Crohn disease are covered. These include the initial evaluation of Crohn disease when the diagnosis has not been previously established, the evaluation for anticipated exacerbation of kno...

Mar 27th, 2019 - Very early onset inflammatory bowel disease (VEO-IBD) is defined as disease presenting before the age of 6. These children require a tailored imaging approach because conventional imaging studies can be difficult to perform at such a young age. Un...

Feb 6th, 2019 - Moderate to high quality evidence suggests that any benefit provided by antibiotics in active CD is likely to be modest and may not be clinically meaningful. High quality evidence suggests that there is no increased risk of adverse events with ant...

Jan 22nd, 2019 - Thiopurines (azathioprine, mercaptopurine, thioguanine) and methotrexate are widely used in a variety of clinical management scenarios for ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. With the introduction of biologic therapies over the last 2 decades,.

Jan 21st, 2019 - Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is becoming part of the treatment algorithms against recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (rCDI) both in adult and pediatric gastroenterology practice. With our increasing recognition of the critical rol...

Jan 16th, 2021 - Transmural healing (TH) is associated with better long-term outcomes in Crohn disease (CD), whereas pretreatment ileal gene signatures encoding myeloid inflammatory responses and extracellular matrix production are associated with stricturing. We ...

Jan 15th, 2021 - Endocrine complications such as impaired growth, delayed puberty, and low bone mineral density (BMD) can be associated with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in children and adolescents. This study was performed to investigate the frequency, charac...

Jan 12th, 2021 - Proinflammatory cytokines play an important role in abdominal surgery and are often associated with the development of postoperative ileus, especially in Crohn disease. The aim of this study was to investigate proinflammatory cytokine levels in me...

Jan 12th, 2021 - Growth delay with height and weight impairment is a common feature of pediatric inflammatory bowel diseases (PIBD). Up to 2/3 of Crohn Disease patients have impaired weight at diagnosis, and up to 1/3 have impaired height. Ulcerative colitis usual...

Jan 7th, 2021 - Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (US) of the bowel wall has been suggested as an alternative imaging modality for the follow-up of children with Crohn disease. To evaluate the diagnostic performance of contrast-enhanced US in the estimation of Crohn d...

Jul 27th, 2020 - In July 2020, the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons published clinical practice guidelines on the surgical management of Crohn disease.[1] Medically refractory disease Surgery should be considered for patients in whom the response to m...

Apr 16th, 2020 - The patient's signs and symptoms should raise suspicion for inflammatory bowel disease, due to its chronic and relapsing character. Physical examination shows extraintestinal manifestations of Crohn disease. Fistulization between abdominal structu...

Nov 3rd, 2019 - Crohn Disease Diagnosis Diagnostic procedures for suspected Crohn disease include ileocolonoscopy with segmental colonic and ileal biopsies, to investigate for microscopic disease, and imaging to assess the location and extent of small bowel disea...

Nov 3rd, 2019 - Consensus guidelines on the management of inflammatory bowel disease in adults were released in September 2019 by the British Society of Gastroenterology.[1] Ulcerative Colitis In circumstances in which ulcerative colitis is diagnosed by sigmoidos...

Nov 3rd, 2019 - Consensus guidelines on the management of inflammatory bowel disease in adults were released in September 2019 by the British Society of Gastroenterology.[1] Ulcerative Colitis In circumstances in which ulcerative colitis is diagnosed by sigmoidos...