CONTEXT The incidence and populational prevalence of inflammatory bowel diseases, hitherto unknown in Brazil, were estimated for a region in the Midwest of São Paulo State, Brazil. METHODS Using a sequential registry of 115 adult patients (>15 years old) with inflammatory bowel diseases - exclusively residing in the studied region with 533,508 inhabitants (2005) and attended at the reference ...

ulcerative colitis (uc) and crohn's disease (cd) are chronic inflammatory bowel diseases with uncertain etiology thought to be triggered by interactions between various environmental, genetic and immunologic factors. incidence rate of cd and uc is different in various geographic areas around the world, between 0.1-11 and 0.5-24.5 per 100,000 people for cd and uc, respectively. recent studies in...

systemic amyloidosis is a very rare complication of inflammatory bowel disease (ibd). the reported cases of secondary amyloidosis in children with ibd are much fewer than those reported in adults. herein, a teenage boy with crohn’s disease is presented who developed nephrotic syndrome due to renal involvement secondary to amyloidosis, whereas the patient was under treatment with corticosteroid ...

abstract background and purpose: customer quality (cq) refers to knowledge, attitude, and skills of service-user in treatment process and this study aims to assess it in delivered care to patients with inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) in tabriz city, iran, 2012. materials and methods: this is a cross-sectional investigation in which the target population includes 94 patients with ibd, who had m...

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...

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 R. K. Cross, A. R. Watson (eds.), Telemanagement of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-22285-1_11 W. K. van Deen () · D. W. Hommes UCLA Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Melvin and Bren Simon Digestive Diseases Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, 10945 Le Conte Ave PVUB #2338E, Los Angeles,...

Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases; Division of Digestive Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine, The University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA Corresponding author: Hon Wai Koon, Ph.D. Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, MRL 1519, 675 Charles E. Young Drive South, The University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, U.S.A. Tel: 310-825-9742 Email: hkoon@medne...