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The Crohn's disease activity index, a similar index devised for patients with ulcerative colitis, and other commonly used laboratory indicators of disease activity have been studied in 50 patients with colonic inflammatory bowel disease undergoing routine colonoscopic assessment and compared with the histological extent and activity of disease. There was only poor correlation between the colono...

ramadan is a sacred month for muslims all around the world. during this lunar-based month, healthy adult muslims are obligated to abstain from eating, drinking, smoking, or using oral medications from predawn to sunset. followers will typically eat just after sunset and again before dawn (1). the islamic lunar hijri calendar is 11 days shorter than the gregorian solar calendar, and therefore, t...

PURPOSE Pouchitis is the most common complication of ileal pouch-anal anastomosis for ulcerative colitis. Our previous study suggested that symptoms alone are not reliable for the diagnosis of pouchitis. The most commonly used diagnostic instrument is the 18-point pouchitis disease activity index consisting of three principal component scores: symptom, endoscopy, and histology. Despite its popu...

A 34-year old woman with Crohn’s disease during Infliximab treatment presented with tender verrucous lesions in the perianal area and a small verrucous lesion involving the ileostoma. Perianal lesions were enlarged and had a condylomatous appearance, and had become painful. At the same time, a small grayish-white papillomatous plaque on the upper circumference of the ileostoma, with a sharp out...

Crohn’s disease is characterized by chronic intestinal inflammation and not rarely by extraintestinal manifestations. Psoas abscess and fistula is a rare complication of Crohn’s disease, which is sometimes difficult to diagnose in the early stage. We describe the case of a 22-year-old male patient with Crohn’s disease who presented to us with difficulty in walking and pain in the area of the ri...

BACKGROUND To explore correlation between clinical and endoscopic indices in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients. SUBJECTS AND METHODS There were 112 patients with inflammatory bowel disease. All patients with diagnosed IBD was established a degree of clinical and endoscopic disease activity. CDAI (Crohn's disease activity index) was used as clinical and SES-CD (Simplified Endoscopic Cr...