Definition
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) refers to both idiopathic ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, important chronic medical disorders of unknown etiology. For convenience, ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease will be discussed together as IBD in order to emphasize their similarities and to point out their differences. In general IBD is more common in whites than in nonwhites, is equal in men and women, and is most common in Ashkenazic Jews. The incidence of UC is somewhat greater than that of Crohn’s disease, but the latter seems to be increasing in incidence. Symptoms characteristically begin in early adult life (15 to 30 years) but may begin at any age. A comparison of the pathological and clinical features of UC and Crohn’s disease is given in.
- CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE TO EXERCISE
- Mechanism of Proteinuria
- Bretylium Tosylate
- NAUSEA AND VOMITING
- Renal Biopsy and Other Diagnostic Tests
- BRORICHODILATORS
- LABORATORY TESTS TOR BILIRUBIN
- THE FAMILIAL POLYPOSIS SYNDROMES
- Endocrine Systems
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- Outcome and Prognosis
- Aspiration Pneumonia and Lung Abscess
- DIAGNOSIS AND EVALUATION
- Treatment
- The Fanconi Syndrome
- Nosocomial Pneumonia
- NONMEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF ANGINA PECTORIS
- CLASSIFICATION AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
- CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF ENDSTAGE RENAL DISEASE
- CAUSES OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- Pulmonary System
- Urinalysis, Renal ‘Tubular Function, and Urine Flow Rate
- DISORDERS ASSOCIATED WITH MALABSORPTION
- MANAGEMENT OF CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS
- Plain Radiographs and Barium Contrast Studies
- Sigmoidoscopy and Colonoscopy
- Liddle’s Syndrome
- PENETRATING TRAUMA
- CARDIAC TRAUMA
- SYNCOPE
- TREATMENT AND PROGNOSIS
- PROGNOSIS
- PERIPHERAL ANEURYSMS AMD FISTULAE
- PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ON CARDIAC FUNCTION
- Urolithiasis