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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Crohn's disease | | | |  Crohn's disease: Encyclopedia II - Ulcerative colitis - Symptoms
Ulcerative colitis - Comparison to Crohn's disease.
Ulcerative colitis is similar to Crohn's disease, but there are characteristic differences. Ulcerative colitis affects only the colon and cannot "migrate" to the small intestine, while Crohn's disease can affect the entire digestive tract. Complete colon removal can thus be considered a "cure" for ulcerative colitis. Ulcerative colitis is usually confined to the mucosal and submucosal lining of the colon, and affects whole areas of intestine. Crohn's disease, on ...
See also:Ulcerative colitis, Ulcerative colitis - Symptoms, Ulcerative colitis - Comparison to Crohn's disease, Ulcerative colitis - Cause, Ulcerative colitis - Diagnosis, Ulcerative colitis - Course, Ulcerative colitis - Treatment, Ulcerative colitis - Current research and treatment alternatives Read more here: » Ulcerative colitis: Encyclopedia II - Ulcerative colitis - Symptoms |
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| | | | | Crohn's disease: Encyclopedia II - Ulcerative colitis - Course People with ulcerative colitis may initially have bloody diarrhea (the severity of which is variable from time to time). Because of destruction of the nerves in the bowel, movement may be impaired, and the intestine may dilate. This may, in some cases, result in an extreme diarrheal disease - toxic megacolon, however the probability of occurrence is very low, and is further reduced by regular routine surveillance by colonoscopy. Eventually the inflamed mucosa may develop a risk of malignancy, requiring biopsy every few months. Sometimes the ...
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| | | | | Crohn's disease: Encyclopedia II - Ulcerative colitis - Course People with ulcerative colitis may initially have bloody diarrhea (the severity of which is variable from time to time). Because of destruction of the nerves in the bowel, movement may be impaired, and the intestine may dilate. This may, in some cases, result in an extreme diarrheal disease - toxic megacolon, however the probability of occurrence is very low, and is further reduced by regular routine surveillance by colonoscopy. Eventually the inflamed mucosa may develop a risk of malignancy, requiring biopsy every few months. Sometimes the ...
See also:Ulcerative colitis, Ulcerative colitis - Symptoms, Ulcerative colitis - Comparison to Crohn's disease, Ulcerative colitis - Cause, Ulcerative colitis - Diagnosis, Ulcerative colitis - Course, Ulcerative colitis - Treatment, Ulcerative colitis - Current research and treatment alternatives Read more here: » Ulcerative colitis: Encyclopedia II - Ulcerative colitis - Course |
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| | | | | Crohn's disease: Encyclopedia II - Ulcerative colitis - Cause The cause of ulcerative colitis is unknown, although infective agents have been suspected, and there is a genetic component to susceptibility. Immune system over-activity has also been suspected as a cause.
There is much research currently being conducted in this area, and some new theories and medications show promising results. While a definitive cause of ulcerative colitis may never be discovered (since it is highly possible that it is a result of a combination of environmental, genetical, bacterial and other factors), an effective treatm ...
See also:Ulcerative colitis, Ulcerative colitis - Features, Ulcerative colitis - Comparison to Crohn's disease, Ulcerative colitis - Cause, Ulcerative colitis - Diagnosis, Ulcerative colitis - Course, Ulcerative colitis - Treatment, Ulcerative colitis - Current research and treatment alternatives Read more here: » Ulcerative colitis: Encyclopedia II - Ulcerative colitis - Cause |
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| | | | | Crohn's disease: Encyclopedia II - Ulcerative colitis - Cause The cause of ulcerative colitis is unknown, although infective agents have been suspected, and there is a genetic component to susceptibility. Immune system over-activity has also been suspected as a cause.
There is much research currently being conducted in this area, and some new theories and medications show promising results. While a definitive cause of ulcerative colitis may never be discovered (since it is highly possible that it is a result of a combination of environmental, genetical, bacterial and other factors), an effective treatm ...
See also:Ulcerative colitis, Ulcerative colitis - Symptoms, Ulcerative colitis - Comparison to Crohn's disease, Ulcerative colitis - Cause, Ulcerative colitis - Diagnosis, Ulcerative colitis - Course, Ulcerative colitis - Treatment, Ulcerative colitis - Current research and treatment alternatives Read more here: » Ulcerative colitis: Encyclopedia II - Ulcerative colitis - Cause |
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| | | | | | | Crohn's disease: Encyclopedia II - Inflammatory bowel disease - Forms Main forms of IBD:
Crohn's disease
Ulcerative colitis (UC)
The main difference between the two is the location and nature of the inflammatory changes in the gut. Crohn's can affect any part of the gastrointestinal tract, from mouth to anus (skip lesions), although a majority of the cases start in the terminal ileum. Ulcerative colitis, in contrast, is restricted to the colon, and spares the anus.
Microscopically, ulcerative colitis is restricted to the mucosa (epithelial lining of the gut), ...
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| | | | | | | | Crohn's disease: Encyclopedia II - Infliximab - Other uses Case studies have been done into other uses of infliximab, such as to treat skin diseases. Remicade (Infliximab) has been approved for treating Ankylosing Spondylitis, Crohn's Disease, Psoriatic Arthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Ulcerative Colitis.
"Although not approved for use in dermatological diseases, there have been numerous reports of the efficacy of infliximab in cutaneous inflammatory diseases. The most promise lies in those diseases that have increased amounts of TNF-alpha in the cutaneous lesions, such as psoriasis." (Gupta and Skinner, 2004 litera ...
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| | | | | Crohn's disease: Encyclopedia II - Methotrexate - Uses Methotrexate was originally used, as part of combination chemotherapy regimens, to treat many kinds of cancers. It is still the mainstay for the treatment of many neoplastic disorders including acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
More recently it has come into use as a treatment for some autoimmune diseases, including psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis (see disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs), and Crohn's disease. In the case of rheumatoid arthritis, parallel use with infliximab or etanercept has been shown to markedly improve sympt ...
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| | | | | | | | Crohn's disease: Encyclopedia II - Enteritis - Diagnosis Generally a good history is the most important tool in distinguishing serious cases of enteritis from self-limiting ones. The presence of blood in the faeces, dehydration, cutaneous eruptions, presumed link with food exposure, as well as recent travel to endemic areas can prompt further investigation.
Acute enteritis is usually due to bacteria or viruses. When food is involved, foodborne illness is to be suspected. If other family members or members of the household are affected, this may signify infectious causes.
Chronic enteritis can be due to Crohn's disease, giardiasis, tuberculosis, celiac disea ...
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| | | | | Crohn's disease: Encyclopedia II - MMR vaccine - The MMR controversy Controversy has arisen regarding the efficacy of the MMR vaccine, because some scientists and parents contend that the vaccine might be linked to the development of a number of conditions, such as autism, bowel disorders such as Crohn's disease, and the brain disorder Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).
During the 1980s and 1990s, a number of lawsuits were brought in the United States against manufacturers of vaccines, alleging the vaccines had caused a variety of physical and mental disorders in children. While these were inconclusive, ...
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| | | | | | Crohn's disease: Encyclopedia II - Nausea - Causes Nausea is a symptom of many conditions. It is also an adverse effect of many drugs.
In medicine, nausea is a particular problem during some chemotherapy regimens and following general anaesthesia. Nausea is also a common symptom of pregnancy.
Other causes include: altitude sickness, angina, brain tumor, cirrhosis, clinical depression, coeliac disease, colorectal cancer, crohn's disease, decompression sickness, esophagitis, gastroesophageal reflux disease, gastroenteritis, hangover, head injury, hepatitis C, hepatocellular carci ...
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