Inflammatory Bowel Disease: pocketbookThis pocketbook looks at inflammatory bowel disease and its drug therapy. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Clinical features | 14 |
Drugs used in | 32 |
Drug therapy | 46 |
Surgery and endoscopic therapy | 60 |
Prognosis | 75 |
Common terms and phrases
5-aminosalicylate acute episodes anal anatomical extent antibodies antigen azathioprine bacterial biopsy bone density Budesonide calcium cells chronic active disease clinical colectomy colitis and Crohn's Collagenous colonic disease colonoscopy course of oral courses of steroids Crohn's disease cyclosporin cytokines diarrhoea dilatation distal dose dysplasia effective endoscopic epithelial fistulae fulminant genetic ileal ileorectal anastomosis ileostomy increased risk infection inflammation inflammatory bowel disease Interleukin-1 lamina propria Left-sided liquid diet liver lymphocytes macrophages macroscopic maintain remission mesalazine metabolism mg/kg/day mucosal normal nutrition occurs oral prednisolone oral steroids patients with Crohn's patients with IBD patients with ulcerative pouch pouchitis prednisolone proctitis proctocolectomy Proctocolectomy and ileostomy pyoderma Rectal rectum recurrence resection response risk of cancer sclerosing cholangitis severe disease Severe episodes short courses side-effects small bowel disease steroid enemas steroids stoma stricture Sulphasalazine surgery surveillance programme symptoms T-cell terminal ileum therapy total colitis treated treatment Tumour necrosis factor ulcerative colitis usually vitamin vitamin D