Familial inflammatory bowel diseases in Northwest Greece
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including Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), have been recognized for many years now to include a hereditary component. Familial occurrence in IBD is probably expected to be less frequent in Greece compared to Northern Europe and America [3]. According to retrospective studies, fi rst-degree familial clustering of IBD in the Mediterranean area, including Greece, seems to not exceed 7% in adult [4,5] and 8.5% in pediatric cases [6]. We herein present the results of our study aiming to record all IBD cases with familial clustering in our area. Medical records of all IBD patients followed up at the Division of Gastroenterology at the Ioannina University Hospital and
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