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Natural products have been used as drugs for millennia, and the therapeutic potential of natural products has been studied for more than a century. Since the mid-1880s, approximately 60% of...
Azathioprine is the most common drug used to maintain clinical remission in inflammatory bowel disease. This drug is also important as a steroid-sparing agent in steroid-dependent and chronically active inflammatory...
The pathophysiology and fundamental etiologic mechanism of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is not well understood even though therapeutic regimens and drugs are rapidly evolutionary. IBD has complicated connections with genetic,...
The importance of pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has grown significantly, for the incidence of pediatric inflammatory bowel disease in Korea has been rapidly increasing in recent years. One quarter...
Various dietary and nutritional factors have been suggested as significant etiological factors for both Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. However, there are no proven dietary approaches to reduce the risk...
The risk of developing colorectal cancer is increased in patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Surveillance colonoscopy has not been shown to prolong survival and rates of interval cancer are reported...
Recent studies have shown that inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients are affected by altered body composition, especially low muscle mass or sarcopenia. Detection of sarcopenia is important, as it can...
Pyodermatitis-pyostomatitis vegetans (PD-PSV) is a rare, benign pustular and vegetating mucocutaneous dermatosis with a tendency to affect the oral mucosa and the skin of the groin and axilla. The cutaneous...
Normal small intestinal folds are less than 2mm in thickness and criss-cross in appearance. Many diseases
of the small interstine produce an abnormality in mucosal folds, namely thickening and parallel (perpendiulcer
to...
Our understanding of IBD pathogenesis has been increasing rapidly. The genetically determined interplay between the commensal microbiota, intestinal epithelial cells, and the immune system has been appreciated deeply. The interplay...
Inflammatory bowel disease in children shows the rising incidence with evidence of more CD than UC. So the clinical field of childhood IBD is evolving. Recognition of the rising incidence...