background and aims: in diagnosing inflammatory bowel disease, one of diagnostic way is upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, which helps in differential diagnosis of unspecified colitis as well. the aim of this study was to investigate the necessity of upper gastrointestinal endoscopy in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.   materials and methods: in this descriptive cross-sectional study, 3...

introduction: ulcerative colitis (uc) and crohn's disease (cd) are chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (ibd) with uncertain etiology thought to be triggered by interactions between various environmental, genetic and immunologic factors. role of different factors in ibd are controversial. materials and methods: the aim of this study is to determine the possible risk factors in a group of iranian...

Background: Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease that can affect any part of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract including the mouth. Bowel symptoms are predominant. Oral involvement may precede the GI symptoms. This case report presents a patient affected by Crohn’s disease with oral onset. Case presentation: We present a 30-year-old pregnant woman complaining of chronic, ...

OBJECTIVE a strong association has been observed between celiac disease, generally its silent clinical form, and autoimmune disorders. A potential correlation with inflammatory bowel disease has also been suggested. Anti-tissue transglutaminase antibodies have been detected in Crohn´s disease. We investigated the prevalence of celiac disease in patients with autoimmune diabetes and in Crohn´s d...

1Division of Gastroenterology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta Correspondence and reprints: Dr Remo Panaccione, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Room 3621 3500 26th Avenue NE, Calgary, Alberta T1Y 6J4. Telephone 403-219-1512, fax 403-291-8017, e-mail [email protected] Received for publication May 2, 2001. Accepted May 2, 2001 R Panaccione, for the Canadian ...

To study the putative agent(s) related to Crohn disease, we intraperitoneally in injected mesenteric lymph node homogenates from four patients with active Crohn disease into 10-week-old athymic (nu/nu) mice. Control mice (nu/nu) were injected with homogenates of mesenteric lymph nodes from two patients with ulcerative colitis and four patients undergoing elective cholecystectomy, and with a hom...

INTRODUCTION Despite optimized medical treatment, Crohn´s disease can cause gastrointestinal (GI) strictures, which requires surgical intervention. Lately, endoscopic balloon dilatation has been established as an alternative to surgery. In the following, we report our experiences with endoscopic dilatation of strictures in the gastrointestinal tract caused by Crohn´s disease. MATERIAL AND MET...