Challenges in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Gastroenterology Clinics of North America
Volume 38, Issue 4, Pages 577-774 (December 2009)
Challenges in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Edited by Miguel Regueiro, Arthur M. Barrie
This issue covers a wide range of IBD topics. Drs Remo Pannacione and Shaun Delvin report on how to treat IBD patients in this evolving era of biologic agents. Drs David Schwartz and Brad Maltz describe the standard of care for the vexing problem of fistulizing disease. Drs Subra Kugathasan and Cary Sauer highlight the unique aspects of pediatric IBD. Dr Uma Mahadevan explains the management of pregnant IBD patients. Drs Bo Shen and Hao Wu illustrate the biologic and clinical ramifications of an ileal pouch-anal anastomosis. Drs James Lewis and Meena Bewtra report on how we should proceed with IBD therapy given the controversial malignancy risk. Similarly, Drs Edward Loftus and Waqqas Afif detail the infectious risks of various IBD medications. Drs Ashwan Ananthakrishnan and Mazen Issa, along with our colleague, Dr David Binion, share their insight into the Clostridium difficile epidemic in IBD patients, and Drs David Rubin and Timothy Zisman describe the exciting developments in novel diagnostic and prognostic tools for IBD. Lastly, we describe our own experiences with postoperative management of IBD, including the use of tumor necrosis factor alpha inhibitors
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