Definition
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) refers to both idiopathic ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, important chronic medical disorders of unknown etiology. For convenience, ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease will be discussed together as IBD in order to emphasize their similarities and to point out their differences. In general IBD is more common in whites than in nonwhites, is equal in men and women, and is most common in Ashkenazic Jews. The incidence of UC is somewhat greater than that of Crohn’s disease, but the latter seems to be increasing in incidence. Symptoms characteristically begin in early adult life (15 to 30 years) but may begin at any age. A comparison of the pathological and clinical features of UC and Crohn’s disease is given in.
- TREATMENT AND PROGNOSIS
- CLINICAL FEATURES OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- Minimal Change Nephropathy
- TREATMENT
- Renal Glycosuria
- Beta Blockers
- ARTERIOSCLEROSIS OBLITERANS
- Urinary Tract Infection
- GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
- HEMATOLOGY
- Incidence
- PHYSIOLOGY OF THE CORONARY CIRCULATION
- Alterations in Glomerular Hemodynamics, Parathyroid Hormone Metabolism, and Systemic Arterial Blood Pressure
- Therapy
- Lower GI Bleeding
- PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE
- Pulmonary Infiltrates with Eosinophilia PIE
- Diagnosis
- Pathogenic Mechanisms - Mechanism of Injury
- Definition
- ACID-PEPTIC DISEASE
- Indirect
- TREATMENT OF MALABSORPTION
- Health
- Genitourinary System
- THE COMMON CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE
- Renal Artery Occlusion
- CHIP Perinatal Coverage
- MOXIOUS GASES AflD FUMES
- DEFINITION
- Acid-Base Abnormalities
- Multiple Myeloma
- Urolithiasis
- CHROMC BROriCMITIS
- Renal Venous Occlusion