Bone disease in inflammatory bowel disease

Metabolic Bone Disease in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

An oral calcium supplement (1000 mg/day) is recommended. Regular exercise should be performed. Ethanol intake should be moderate. Protein intake should be moderate. The patient's vitamin D status should be determined and corrected with an oral supplement when deficiency is present. Baseline and yearly bone density measurement should be taken. Alendronate, 10 mg/d orally, or risedronate, 5 mg/d ...

Neonatal Presentation of Unremitting Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Very-early-onset inflammatory bowel disease (VEO-IBD) has a distinct phenotype and should be considered a specific entity. VEO-IBD presents with very severe clinical pictures and is frequently known by an indeterminate colitis whose clinical remission is unmanageable. This study examines the case of a neonate with VEO-IBD, not responding to medical and surgical treatment. A 7-day-old Iranian fe...

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Sweet Syndrome Accompanying Inflammatory Bowel Disease in a Child

Acute neutrophilic dermatosis, first described in 1964 by Robert Douglas Sweet, is characterized by sudden onset fever, neutrophilic leukocytosis, and well demarcated erythematous papules, nodules, and plaques with dense neutrophilic infiltrates on histologic evaluation.Here is a report of a 7-year-old girl who presented with high grade fever, and discrete erythematous papular skin eruptions, w...

Effects of Probiotics and Prebiotics in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) including most important forms; Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC); are chronic diseases affecting the gastrointestinal tract with unclear etiology and pathology. The role of gut microbiota has recently been considered as major a factor, since altered microbiome or "dysbiosis" is a key player in the protracted course of inflammation in IBD. Howeve...