title: [Neurological complications of inflammatory bowel disease].
abstract: Although ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease have traditionally been considered to be inflammatory diseases limited to the gastrointestinal tract, it has been shown that both pathologies are frequently accompanied by various extraintestinal disorders. There is an increasing evidence that they may also manifest in the nervous system, including the peripheral and the central parts. Although some of these neurological complications have been known for a long time, such as cerebrovascular disease, vasculitis and autoinmune processes including neuropathies and cerebral demyelination, others have been recently described. With the exception of some of this complications such as the thromboembolism, evidence for a casual relationship relies merely on single case reports or case series. In this article, we try to review the existing evidence on neurological manifestations of both variants of inflammatory bowel disease.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Neurología, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, España. pedro_bermejo@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Pedro Emilio
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Bermejo
authors.forename: Aurora
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Burgos
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology; D002545:Brain Ischemia / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D015212:Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D009157:Myasthenia Gravis / Q000453:epidemiology; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D010211:Papilledema / Q000453:epidemiology; D013118:Spinal Cord Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D020293:Vasculitis, Central Nervous System / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology