Article
Overview of paediatric IBD.
Seminars in pediatric surgery - 1 Dec 2017
Wilson David C, Russell Richard K
Abstract excerpt
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic complex disease of children and adults requiring a range of medications and surgical techniques to induce and maintain remission. In common with other immune-mediated inflammatory disorders, it has shown an ever-increasing rise in incidence worldwide over the last 50 years. The cause of IBD arises from interactions between the microbiome in the gut and the...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Child
- Colitis, Ulcerative
- Crohn Disease
- Disease Management
- Gastrointestinal Microbiome
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Global Health
- Humans
- Practice Guidelines as Topic
- Transition to Adult Care