Summary
- Inflammatory bowel disease that may involve the entire gastrointestinal tract.
- Common presenting symptoms include chronic diarrhoea, weight loss, and right lower quadrant abdominal pain mimicking acute appendicitis.
- Diagnosis confirmed by colonoscopy with ileoscopy and tissue biopsy.
- The overall treatment goals are to induce and maintain remission plus prevent relapse or recurrence.
- Complications include extra-intestinal involvement, intestinal obstruction, abscess formation, sinuses, and fistulae.
Other related conditions
- Ulcerative colitis
- Amoebiasis
- Clostridium difficile-associated disease
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Assessment of anaemia
- Assessment of lower gastrointestinal bleeding
- Cholelithiasis
- Erythema nodosum
- Hepatic steatosis
- Large bowel obstruction
- Liver abscess
- Nephrolithiasis
- Primary sclerosing cholangitis
- Small bowel obstruction
- Toxic megacolon
- Uveitis
- Diverticular disease
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Acute appendicitis
- Colorectal cancer
- Endometriosis
- Pelvic inflammatory disease
- Intra-abdominal abscess
Last updated: Jan 31, 2013
