Geared to a wide readership of practicing clinicians and trainees in primary care medicine and gastroenterology, this handbook offers practical information on Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Coverage begins with the patient's first visit and proceeds through the diagnostic workup: endoscopy, radiologic testing, and instruments for rating and classifying inflammatory bowel disease. Discussions of therapy include conventional therapies, immunomodulators, biologic therapies, surgical approaches, and intestinal stomas. Chapters discuss extraintestinal manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease, inflammatory bowel disease and the liver, infections, and pouchitis. Additional chapters focus on nursing considerations, nutrition, women's health issues, and inflammatory bowel disease and the workplace.

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Preface

Chapter 1: The First Visit

Chapter 2: Endoscopy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Chapter 3: Radiologic Testing in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Chapter 4: Accepted Instruments for Rating and Classifying Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Chapter 5: Conventional Therapies for Ulcerative Colitis

Chapter 6: Conventional Therapies for Crohn's Disease

Chapter 7: Immunomodulators in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Chapter 8: Biologic Therapies in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Chapter 9: Surgical Approaches to Ulcerative Colitis

Chapter 10: Surgical Approaches to Crohn's Disease

Chapter 11: Surgical Approaches to Perianal Disease

Chapter 12: Intestinal Stomas

Chapter 13: Extraintestinal Manifestations of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Chapter 14: Inflammatory Bowel Disease and the Liver

Chapter 15: Infections in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Chapter 16: Pouchitis

Chapter 17: Nursing Considerations for Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Chapter 18: Nutrition in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Chapter 19: Women's Health and Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Chapter 20: Inflammatory Bowel Disease and the Workplace

Appendix: Patient Q & A

Index