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,Are You Sure I Have Crohn’s Disease? Making the Proper Diagnosis, Avoiding IBD Mimickers, and Diagn or radiograph or histologically. Consideration of an alternative is important when conventional therapy (like high-dose steroids) does not work. It would be important to always think broadly like infection, neoplasm, inflammation, or ischemia. Remember also that patients can have overlapping diagno

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,Do I Have Crohn’s Disease or Ulcerative Colitis? Identifying Factors That Distinguish CD from UC anical symptoms, genetics, and treatment response between the two. As such, it is not uncommon for your physician to change your diagnosis based on development of new clinical information over time. There are several factors that can help distinguish between the two diseases. In ulcerative colitis, in

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What Happens If I Do Nothing for My Ulcerative Colitis? The Natural History of Untreated Ulcerativethat is characterized by periods of symptomatic worsening referred to as flares. These flares can result in worsening quality of life, hospitalizations, and even colectomy. UC appears to be a progressive disease that will get worse over time and put patients at greater risk of complications if left

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,What Factors of My Crohn’s Disease Put Me at Higher Risk of Complications? Identifying Crohn’s Patiis a large number that will. Identifying those people at higher risk of developing these complications is not always easy, but there are certain risk factors that have been associated with disease that is more likely to progress over time.

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,What Is the Best Possible Therapy for My Crohn’s Disease? State-of-the-Art Therapy for Newly Diagnobdominal pain, diarrhea, fevers, fatigue, and other symptoms. Some Crohn’s patients suffer from fistulas (inflamed tunnels from the intestines to surrounding skin or other organs). It is believed that the white blood cells are primarily responsible for the damage caused by Crohn’s disease; thus, mos

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What is the Best Possible Therapy for My Mild to Moderate Ulcerative Colitis? State-of-the-Art Therthe extent of involvement during colonoscopy. The goal is to gain control of active inflammation and maintain remission once achieved. Therapies used to treat the active disease are generally combinations of topical and/or oral 5-aminosalicylic acids (5-ASAs) and corticosteroids. Looking forward, me

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What Is the Best Therapy for My Moderate to Severe Ulcerative Colitis? State-of-the-Art Therapy forsymptoms of UC are caused by inflammation of the rectum. The severity of your symptoms and additional factors help us choose the appropriate therapy for you. Patients having, for example, four or more bowel movements per day or other symptoms like fever or anemia are categorized as having moderately

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,“My Medications Are Not Working, What Can I Try Now for My Crohn’s Disease?” Options for Refractoryuce or maintain remission. If you are not currently employing biologic therapy to treat your Crohn’s, this should be a consideration. If you are currently taking or have just begun a biologic, it does require time to become therapeutic. Clinical improvement should be seen in the range of 2–4 weeks,