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Personalizing IBD Care: Caring for Women Through Life Changes
When a gastroenterologist diagnoses a female with inflammatory bowel disease, the physician must realize that this patient will be weighing her options throughout her lifetime – through adolescence, possibly, while initiating romantic relationships, into marriage and planning a family.
“It’s all about preparing the individual to be out there, to be dating, to be able to engage in intimate relationships, and then progress through the transition of getting married and wanting to have a baby. It’s a full gamut, and it starts early,” Marla C. Dubinsky, MD, told Healio Gastroenterology.
Dubinsky and other experts give insightful advice on how to manage female patients with IBD within your practice as they embark on these milestones in life. This in-depth look at their practices and the research behind them can help others usher these patients throughout life.
See our Trend Watch section for additional perspective from Dubinsky on the status of biosimilars in IBD and the latest industry news. Our In the Journals section this month covers a wide variety of gastroenterology research we hope you find applicable to daily practice.
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