Inflammatory Bowel Disease

In a Healio video exclusive, Jan Wehkamp, MD, PhD, reports that treatment with Tremfya maintained clinical remission and endoscopic response through 3 years among patients with moderate to severe Crohn’s disease.

In a Healio video exclusive, Jennie David, PhD, an IBD pediatric psychologist, discusses “complex relationships” young patients with inflammatory bowel disease often have with their bodies, food and weight and how care providers can help.

In this Healio video exclusive, Riha G. Bhatt, MD, highlights key takeaways from her presentation at NASPGHAN, where she described common mimickers of inflammatory bowel disease and how to streamline a differential to avoid misdiagnosis.

In this Healio video exclusive, Anita Afzali, MD, and Aline Charabaty, MD, co-founders of Scrubs & Heels, encourage women in gastroenterology to create an allyship, mentorship or sponsorship to achieve successful work-life integration.

In this Healio exclusive video, Anita Afzali, MD, previews the upcoming 2023 ACG Annual Scientific Meeting, which will feature a variety of “hot topics,” including the impact of virtual reality and artificial intelligence on practice today.

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease who reinitiated infliximab treatment after using a biosimilar had a threefold increased risk for discontinuation over time due to unwanted response, according to research.

With inflammatory bowel disease on the rise in the South Asian community, patients face barriers to diagnosis and treatment, lack of insurance, stigmatization and low cultural competence from specialists — if a specialist can be found at all.

Fatigue is a “burdensome and highly prevalent” symptom of patients with active and inactive inflammatory bowel disease and is strongly associated with depression, researchers reported in BMC Gastroenterology.

In this month’s issue, we are highlighting the important topic of multidisciplinary care of our gastroenterology patients.