background : approach to the small intestine has been difficult even with newer methods. double-balloon enteroscopy (dbe) has been created for diagnostic and therapeutic interventions in diseases of the small intestine. small intestinal diseases have different etiologies in each country. the dbe has been introduced in recent years in iran. our aim was to study the indications and results of dbe...

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...

Psychological interventions have been designed and implemented effectively in a wide range of medical conditions, including Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD). The psychological treatments for IBS and IBD with the strongest evidence base include: cognitive behavioral therapy, hypnosis, and mindfulness-based therapies. The evidence for each of these therapies is...

background: musculoskeletal manifestations (msm) of inflammatory bowel diseases (ibds) are usually the most frequent extraintestinal manifestations. however, they are not paid enough attention during regular office visits. this cross-sectional study aimed to draw a clinical picture of msm and their relationships with other findings in patients with ibd. materials and methods: patients of our ib...

background there are great variations in the incidence and prevalence of inflammatory bowel diseases (ibd) among different populations. epidemiologic studies mainly come from north america and europe. studies from iran are mostly data on the adult population from the northern region of the country. methods medical records of 37 pediatric patients (≤ 18 years of age) admitted in the pediatric ga...

Gastrointestinal (GI) disorders, including functional bowel diseases such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohnʹs disease (CD) and colitis, afflict more than one in five Americans, particularly women. While some GI disorders may be controlled by diet and pharmaceutical medications, others are poorly moderated by conventional treatments. Symptoms of GI d...

© 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,...

Thromboembolic events are one of the important extraintestinal manifestations of inflammatory bowel diseases that are associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. Iliac vein thrombosis is rarely reported in inflammatory bowel diseases. A 9.5 year-old girl was presented with joint pain, nausea, vomiting and weight loss. She was diagnosed with Crohn's disease and right internal iliac vei...

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...

OBJECTIVE To perform a systematic review of the literature about the nutritional impact of inflammatory bowel diseases in children and adolescents. DATA SOURCES A systematic review was performed using PubMed/MEDLINE, LILACS and SciELo databases, with inclusion of articles in Portuguese and in English with original data, that analyzed nutritional aspects of inflammatory bowel diseases in child...