Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Sometimes, the best way to care for a patient is to know one’s own limitations.

People who were delivered by cesarean section were more likely to receive a Crohn’s disease diagnosis later in life compared with their vaginally delivered counterparts, according to a population-based cohort study conducted in Sweden.

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease tolerated COVID-19 vaccines well regardless of pregnancy status, according to a poster presented at the Infectious Diseases Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology Annual Meeting.

ORLANDO — Altered gut flora has the potential to impact autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease, noted a speaker at the 2022 Rheumatology Nurses Society Conference.

Men who consumed one bottle of nonalcoholic or alcoholic beer every day for 1 month had more diverse gut microbiota than those who did not consume beer, according to a recent study.

CHICAGO – Eye care providers may see ocular manifestations that indicate gastrointestinal disease before a formal diagnosis of the systemic condition is made, according to Lindsay A. Sicks, OD, FAAO, and Brian Liem, DO, at Optometry’s Meeting.

In a Healio video exclusive, Remo Panaccione, MD, discusses results from long-term, pooled analyses of adult patients treated with ustekinumab for inflammatory bowel disease.

SAN DIEGO — Patients with inflammatory bowel disease experienced reduced symptom frequency and severity after a third SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine compared with after a second, according to data presented at Digestive Disease Week 2022.

SAN DIEGO — Among ulcerative colitis patients in endoscopic remission, histologic inflammation increased the risk for loss of remission, according to a presentation at Digestive Disease Week 2022.

SAN DIEGO — Seroconversion rates and antibody response significantly increased after a third dose of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in patients with inflammatory bowel disease, according to a presenter at Digestive Disease Week 2022.