Isolated Terminal Ileitis: When Is It Not Crohn’s Disease?
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Terminal ileitis is not always Crohn’s disease
Chronic inflammation in the terminal ileum (TI) suggests a cause for the patient's symptoms, especially when the clinical suspicion is Crohn's disease (CD). Clinic, laboratory, endoscopic, histopathological evaluation of patients is required for the diagnosis of CD. The most frequent localization of CD is the TI. There are many other diseases affecting the TI. Non-steroidal antiinflammatory dru...
متن کاملProviding hope in terminal cancer: when is it appropriate and when is it not?
Hope is essential in the face of terminal cancer. Generally in Western societies, patients and their families prefer their doctor to engage them in transparent, realistic, authoritative, empathic and open communication about the diagnosis and prognosis of cancer but this topic is not well studied in the Asian context. With the exponential increase in information about cancer and the many permut...
متن کاملAtypical dementia: when it is not Alzheimer's disease.
Dementia represents the most common neurodegenerative disorders affecting approximately 5% of the elderly population over age 65 years. At present, different forms of dementia are distinguished, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), dementia with Lewy bodies, frontotemporal dementia, and dementia secondary to diseases, such as AIDS dementia. Unlike AD, these atypical dementias are often associate...
متن کاملWhen Senescence Is Optimal and When It Is Not
A simple model is developed that captures the main features of life reproduction, growth and maintenance. These features are determined by a single state variable, vitality. The resulting optimal life-history strategies are classified with respect to the course of their characteristic age-trajectory of mortality. It is shown that the range of optimal life histories is wide. The main factors tha...
متن کاملFacing Terminal Ileitis: Going Beyond Crohn’s Disease
Terminal ileitis (TI) is an inflammatory condition of the terminal portion of the ileum that may occur acutely with right lower quadrant pain followed or not by diarrhea, or exhibit chronic obstructive symptoms and bleeding and normally it is associated to Crohn's disease (CD) although it may be associated to other different conditions. This review intended to contribute to a better understandi...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Digestive Diseases and Sciences
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0163-2116,1573-2568
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-018-5017-4