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Crohn disease

Última revisão: 20 Aug 2025
Última atualização: 11 Apr 2025

Resumo

Definição

História e exame físico

Principais fatores diagnósticos

  • abdominal pain
  • prolonged diarrhea
  • perianal lesions
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Outros fatores diagnósticos

  • bowel obstruction
  • blood in stools
  • fatigue
  • abdominal tenderness
  • weight loss
  • fever
  • oral lesions
  • abdominal mass
  • extraintestinal manifestations (e.g., erythema nodosum or pyoderma gangrenosum)
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Risk factors

  • white ethnicity
  • Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry
  • age 15-40 or 50-60 years
  • family history of CD
  • use of antibiotics
  • cigarette smoking
  • diet high in refined sugar
  • diet low in fiber
  • diet high in ultra-processed foods
  • use of oral contraceptives
  • not breastfed
  • use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
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Diagnostic tests

1st tests to order

  • CBC
  • iron studies (serum iron, serum ferritin, total iron binding capacity [TIBC], transferrin saturation)
  • serum vitamin B12
  • serum folate
  • comprehensive metabolic panel (CMP)
  • CRP and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)
  • stool testing
  • Yersinia enterocolitica serology
  • plain abdominal x-ray
  • MRI abdomen/pelvis
  • CT abdomen
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Tests to consider

  • abdominal and pelvic ultrasonography
  • ileocolonoscopy
  • tissue biopsy
  • esophagogastroduodenoscopy
  • wireless capsule endoscopy
  • fecal calprotectin
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Emerging tests

  • serologic markers

Treatment algorithm

ACUTE

ileocecal disease not fistulizing with <100 cm of bowel affected: initial presentation or relapse

colonic disease not fistulizing: initial presentation or relapse

extensive small bowel disease (>100 cm of bowel affected) not fistulizing: initial presentation or relapse

upper gastrointestinal disease (esophageal and/or gastroduodenal disease) not fistulizing: initial presentation or relapse

perianal or fistulizing disease: initial presentation or relapse

ONGOING

in remission

Contributors

Authors

Lucy Charlotte Hicks, MBBS, PhD, FHEA, MRCP

Consultant Gastroenterologist

Department of Gastroenterology

St Mary's Hospital

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer

Imperial College

London

UK

Disclosures

LCH declares that she has no competing interests.

Georgia Woodfield, MBChB, MSc, PhD

Specialist Registrar in Gastroenterology and General Medicine

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Research Fellow

Imperial College London

London

UK

Disclosures

GW declares that she has no competing interests.

Acknowledgements

Dr Georgia Woodfield and Dr Lucy Charlotte Hicks would like to gratefully acknowledge Mr George Reese, Dr Pranav H. Patel, Dr Philip J. Smith, Dr Charlotte Ford, Dr Wissam Bleibel, Dr Bishal Mainali, Dr Chandrashekhar Thukral, and Dr Mark A. Peppercorn, the previous contributors to this topic.

გაფრთხილება:

GR is an author of a number of references cited in this topic. PHP, PJS, CF, WB, BM, CT, and MAP declare that they have no competing interests.

რეცენზენტები

Kiron M. Das, MD, PhD, FACP, FRCP

Chief of Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Professor of Medicine

Director of Crohn's & Colitis Center of New Jersey

New Brunswick

NJ

გაფრთხილება:

KMD declares that he has no competing interests.

John Mansfield, MA, MD, FRCP

Consultant Gastroenterologist and Senior Lecturer

Royal Victoria Infirmary

Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Newcastle University

Newcastle upon Tyne

UK

გაფრთხილება:

JM declares that he has no competing interests.

Peer reviewer acknowledgements

BMJ Best Practice topics are updated on a rolling basis in line with developments in evidence and guidance. The peer reviewers listed here have reviewed the content at least once during the history of the topic.

Disclosures

Peer reviewer affiliations and disclosures pertain to the time of the review.

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Lichtenstein GR, Loftus EV, Isaacs KL, et al. ACG clinical guideline: management of Crohn's disease in adults. Am J Gastroenterol. 2018 Apr;113(4):481-517.სრული ტექსტი  აბსტრაქტი

Gomollón F, Dignass A, Annese V, et al. 3rd European evidence-based consensus on the diagnosis and management of Crohn's disease 2016: Part 1: diagnosis and medical management. J Crohns Colitis. 2017 Jan;11(1):3-25.სრული ტექსტი  აბსტრაქტი

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Adamina M, Bonovas S, Raine T, et al. ECCO guidelines on therapeutics in Crohn's disease: surgical treatment. J Crohns Colitis. 2020 Feb 10;14(2):155-68.სრული ტექსტი  აბსტრაქტი

Feuerstein JD, Ho EY, Shmidt E, et al. AGA clinical practice guidelines on the medical management of moderate to severe luminal and perianal fistulizing Crohn's disease. Gastroenterology. 2021 Jun;160(7):2496-508.სრული ტექსტი  აბსტრაქტი

Gionchetti P, Dignass A, Danese S, et al. 3rd European evidence-based consensus on the diagnosis and management of Crohn’s disease 2016: Part 2: surgical management and special situations. J Crohns Colitis. 2017 Feb;11(2):135-49.სრული ტექსტი  აბსტრაქტი

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