Current medical therapy for chronic inflammatory bowel diseases.
Chronic idiopathic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) include Crohn's disease (CD), ulcerative colitis (UC), and colonic IBD type unclassified (IBDU). This article focuses upon current medical therapies for adult CD and UC, and is organized according to therapy for the corresponding disease type, stage, and severity.
Tamboli
Cyrus P
CP
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, 4614 JCP, 200 Hawkins Drive, University Hospitals & Clinics, University of Iowa Roy J. & Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA 52242-1081, USA. cyrus-tamboli@uiowa.edu
D002908:Chronic Disease; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D005765:Gastrointestinal Agents / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D015212:Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology; D012074:Remission Induction
D005765:Gastrointestinal Agents