crohn's disease is a type of chronic inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) of unknown etiology that may affect any part of the gastrointestinal tract from mouth to anus and shows extra-intestinal involvement. it characteristically shows skip lesions. this case report reported in 2014 describes a middle age pakistani male known to have documented evidence of significant crohn's disease since past 18 ...

the main inflammatory bowel disorders are including celiac disease (cd), inflammatory bowel diseases (ibd) and irritable bowel syndrome (ibs). celiac disease is a digestive and autoimmune disorder that can damage the small intestine and characterized by a multitude gastrointestinal (gi) and extra gi symptoms. ibd (including ulcerative colitis and crohn’s disease) is a group of inflammatory cond...

inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting the gastrointestinal tract and includes ulcerative colitis and crohn’s disease. during last decades, the incidence of ibd   has increased, both in children as well as in adults (1–3). while the precise etiology of ibd is unknown, inflammatory bowel disease occure due to an abnormal immune response to luminal antigens i...

Background: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of disorders that cause chronic inflammation (pain and swelling) in the intestines. IBD includes Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Both types affect the digestive system. The study aims to compare coping strategies in people with inflammatory bowel disease and healthy people, according to internal and external sources of health contr...

crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease (ibd), characterized by chronic intestinal inflammation that causes the loss of immune tolerance leading to bizarre inflammatory signals and disruption of mucosal barriers. environmental triggers and interaction of genetic determinants also play an indispensible role. in this case report, we present a pre-pubertal girl with intermittent and refra...

background: there is evidence that pulmonary function abnormalities are present in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (ibd). the aim of this case-control study was to assess the frequency of pulmonary dysfunction in patients with ibd. materials and methods: pulmonary function of 37 patients with ibd (8 with cd and 29 with uc) without any known pulmonary disease was tested by body-box plet...

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inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) frequently affects young patients of childbearing age. treatments for inflammatory bowel disease include immunosuppressive, cytotoxic and surgical therapies. azathioprine is frequently used to treat patients with steroid dependent ibd. we report the case of a patient with ulcerative colitis, treated with azathioprine prior to conception and during the subsequent...