Pulmonary involvement and allergic disorders in inflammatory bowel disease.
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has been associated with either clinical or subclinical airway and parenchymal lung involvement and interstitial lung complications. Several studies have reported that atopy has a high prevalence in IBD patients. Overlapping allergic disorders seem to be present in both the respiratory and gastrointestinal systems. The purpose of this review is to update clinicians on recent available literature and to discuss the need for a highly suspicious approach by clinicians.
Tzanakis
Nikolaos E
NE
Department of Social Medicine & Thoracic Medicine, Medical School University of Crete, Crete 71110, Greece.
Tsiligianni
Ioanna G
IG
Siafakas
Nikolaos M
NM
D006801:Humans; D006967:Hypersensitivity / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D015212:Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008168:Lung / Q000503:physiopathology*; D017563:Lung Diseases, Interstitial / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors