Rebekka Kleiner,Susanne Pohle
Rebekka Kleiner
Progressive pulmonary Fibrosis Abstract: Cough and dyspnea on excertion are common and early symptoms of interstitial lung diseases (ILD). Thoracic imaging (particularly computed tomography) detects such lung structural alterations early in...
Adela Sarbu,Sabina A Guler
Adela Sarbu
Interstitial Lung Disease associated with Connective Tissue Diseases Abstract: Interstitial lung diseases (ILD) are in up to one-third of cases associated with connective tissue diseases (CTD). In systemic sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, p...
Katrin Hostettler
Katrin Hostettler
Catrina Waldegg,Thomas Greuter
Catrina Waldegg
Eosinophilic oesophagitis (EoE) was first described as an orphan disease in the 1990s, but its incidence and prevalence has increased dramatically in the last 20 years. EoE is now the most common cause of dysphagia in young adulthood. EoE i...
Georg Henniger,Raffaele Galli,Robert Rosenberg
Georg Henniger
Despite the advances in the medical management, especially biologics, there are still clear indications for operative management of IBD. For Crohn's disease, surgical therapy plays an important role after failure of medical management and f...
Samuel Truniger,Remus Frei,Stephan Brand
Samuel Truniger
Endoscopic examinations play a very important role in the diagnosis, progress assessment, and therapy of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). This includes not only esophagogastroduodenoscopy, sigmoidoscopy, and ileo-colonoscopy, but also ass...
Dominic Althaus,Petr Hruz
Dominic Althaus
Inflammatory bowel disease is mainly diagnosed in younger patients. However, the number of elderly patients (age > 60 years) affected by Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis is increasing. In the elderly, symptoms often differ from the you...
Christine Nadege Manser
Christine Nadege Manser
The incidence of chronic inflammatory bowel disease is highest in the childbearing age. The diagnosis itself, but also the various treatment options available, often lead to uncertainties in affected women with regard to fertility, pregnanc...
Stephan R Vavricka
Stephan R Vavricka
Chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are inflammatory gastrointestinal disorders that are not limited to the gastrointestinal tract. Many different organ systems may be involved, which makes IBD a systemic disease. The most common extr...
Laura Rossier,Christoph Matter
Laura Rossier
Ulcerative colitis is characterized by a chronic intestinal inflammation limited to the mucosa of the colon, of variable proximal extent. Main symptoms are diarrhea, possibly bloody, and abdominal pain. It evolves with phases of relapse and...