PSC and colitis: A complex relationship.

Abstract excerpt

Primary sclerosing cholangitis is one of the most challenging conditions in hepatology, and due to our limited understanding of its pathogenesis, no causal therapies are currently available. While it was long assumed that a minority of people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) also develop primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), which is sometimes labeled an extraintestinal manifestation of IBD, the clinical...

Topics

• Cholangitis, Sclerosing
• Genetic Predisposition to Disease
• Gastrointestinal Microbiome
• Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
• Colitis
• Quality of Life