This new revision replaces the successful patient guide Treating IBD: A Patient's Guide to the Medical and Surgical Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease , edited by Lawrence J. Brandt and Penny Steiner-Grossman, as the official patient guide for the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America. All gastroenterologists, patients and families will ...
The main emphasis of this new edition is on diagnosis, therapy and patient management, along with disease activity measures, IBD databases, and the use of diagnostic tests in clinical decision making. Each chapter consists of recommendations from an expert in the field concerning a very specific IBD topic. Precise recommendations for instituting, ...
Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease remain a great therapeutic challenge to the medical community. In recent years knowledge about the pathogenesis of these diseases has progressed rapidly but the cause of the diseases remains completely unknown. It has become clear that dysregulation of the mucosal immune system is the basis for the chronic ...
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