© 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,...

Inflammatory bowel disease includes both Crohn disease and ulcerative colitis. Pediatric-onset inflammatory bowel disease differs from adult inflammatory bowel disease in disease type, location, progression, and sex preponderance, and 20% to 30% of inflammatory bowel disease is diagnosed in childhood. Children are more likely than adults to present with extraintestinal manifestations of inflamm...