Interventional Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Endoscopic Management of Complications

A majority of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) will eventually develop some form of structural complication, ranging from strictures to fistula and colitis-associated neoplasia. Management of structural IBD requires a multidisciplinary approach. Endoscopic therapy plays a bridging role in the medical and surgical management of structural IBD, providing a more definitive treatment than medical therapy and less invasive treatment than surgery. Endoscopic management of IBD complications has evolved into a subspecialty; that is, interventional IBD has evolved into incorporating principles, doctrines, technology, and practice of adult and pediatric gastroenterology, IBD, endoscopy, anesthesiology, colorectal surgery, gastrointestinal (GI) pathology, GI radiology, and GI nutrition.
Source: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics of North America - Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Tags: Preface Source Type: research