Inflammatory Bowel Disease

About this book

Nineteen chapters edited by Russell D. Cohen of the University of Chicago, in the Clinical Gastroenterology series. Opening chapters trace the history of IBD therapy, its changing epidemiology, genetics and pathogenesis. The core reviews medical treatment in adults, with separate chapters on mesalamine, corticosteroids, immunomodulators, biological therapies, and probiotics, antibiotics and nutrition. Later chapters address paediatric IBD, surgery, serological markers and thiopurine monitoring, women with IBD, imaging and newer diagnostic techniques, a pathology slideshow, colorectal cancer surveillance, faecal diversion and the economics of IBD.