Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a lifelong condition, which may occur in patients of any age. Prior to confirming a diagnosis of IBD, clinicians may face unusual non gastrointestinal symptoms. The extra intestinal manifestations of Crohn's disease (CD) may develop prior to signs of gastrointestinal involvement. Many of these extraintestinal clinical signs overlap with those seen in patients...

It is estimated that 19 million people in the United States may suffer from diseases related to the small intestine, including obscure bleeding, irritable bowel syndrome, Crohns disease, chronic diarrhea, and cancer. Current diagnostic methods, including push enteroscopy and radiology, produce historically low diagnostic yield. Early studies show that the M2A Capsule Endoscope effectively visua...

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...

In this paper we compare the social network structure of people talking about Crohn’s disease, Cystic Fibrosis, and Type 1 diabetes on Facebook and Twitter. We find that the Crohn’s community’s contributors are most emotional on Facebook and Twitter and most negative on Twitter, while the T1D community’s communication network structure is most cohesive. INTRODUCTION Social media has become a ma...

Alopecia areata (AA) is a non-scaring alopecia in which the characteristic initial lesion is a circumscribed totally bald, smooth patch. The term alopecia universalis is applied to total or amost total loss of all body hair. A 48-year old man presented with a two-month history of diarrhea and a twoweek history of low-grade fever. Patient was diagnosed twelve years ago with AA universalis treate...