8 TELEMEDICINE FOR PATIENTS WITH INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE (TELE-IBD) DECREASES INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE (IBD)-RELATED HOSPITALIZATIONS

Future Directions in Telemedicine Applications for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 R. K. Cross, A. R. Watson (eds.), Telemanagement of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-22285-1_11 W. K. van Deen () · D. W. Hommes UCLA Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Melvin and Bren Simon Digestive Diseases Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, 10945 Le Conte Ave PVUB #2338E, Los Angeles,...

Treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the gastrointestinal tract, which includes Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). These diseases have become important health problems. Medical therapy for IBD has advanced dramatically in the last decade with the introduction of targeted biologic therapies, the optimization of older therapies, including rugs such ...

Digestive System Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

Inflammatory bowel disease is an immune related disorder in which the intestines are chronically or intermittently inflamed. A synonym for inflammatory bowel disease that is abbreviated the same way is ‘irritable bowel disease’. Affected dogs may be presented with a history of vomiting, diarrhea, weight loss or a combination of these signs. There is a great deal of variation in the severity, du...

Endoscopy in Paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

Thromboembolic tendency (TE) in IBD (inflammatory bowel disease) patients

BACKGROUND The incidence of TE events in IBD patients is higher then in population control. The main reason of it, is the hypercoaugulable state. Our aim was to detect serum markers related to TE, that can assume preventing and prognostic meanings. MATERIALS AND METHODS We performed a 3 years study on 71 patients with IBD, evaluating hypercoaugulability, and then we compared the results with ...