Crohn’s disease, as a chronic inflammatory disease of unknown etiology that can affect any part of the alimentary canal from the mouth to the anus, has a highly variable course and a very unpredictable evolution. Even surgery does not cure CD, it has however a relevant role in its treatment in combination to medical therapy during the large course of the disease; indeed almost each patient is submitted to a surgical intervention during his life. Nowadays, surgery is considered the last treatment to use whenever medical therapy is insufficient to control symptoms; this choice involves an intervention on more serious patients with more surgical complications. Surgery finds in the Crohn’s disease a main role in the management of the obstructive or septic complications; however, elective surgical treatments are proposed in patients with sub-occlusive presentation due to chronic fistulas or with high CD index (>220) with a terminal ileum-cecum disease.
Cocorullo, G., Tutino, R., Falco, N., Fontana, T., Guercio, G., Salamone, G., et al. (2015). Surgical Emergencies in Crohn’s Disease. In G. Lo Re, & M. Midiri (a cura di), Crohn's Disease: Radiological Features and Clinical-Surgical Correlations (pp. 153-157). Springer International Publishing [10.1007/978-3-319-23066-5_17].
Data di pubblicazione: | 2015 | |
Titolo: | Surgical Emergencies in Crohn’s Disease | |
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Citazione: | Cocorullo, G., Tutino, R., Falco, N., Fontana, T., Guercio, G., Salamone, G., et al. (2015). Surgical Emergencies in Crohn’s Disease. In G. Lo Re, & M. Midiri (a cura di), Crohn's Disease: Radiological Features and Clinical-Surgical Correlations (pp. 153-157). Springer International Publishing [10.1007/978-3-319-23066-5_17]. | |
Abstract: | Crohn’s disease, as a chronic inflammatory disease of unknown etiology that can affect any part of the alimentary canal from the mouth to the anus, has a highly variable course and a very unpredictable evolution. Even surgery does not cure CD, it has however a relevant role in its treatment in combination to medical therapy during the large course of the disease; indeed almost each patient is submitted to a surgical intervention during his life. Nowadays, surgery is considered the last treatment to use whenever medical therapy is insufficient to control symptoms; this choice involves an intervention on more serious patients with more surgical complications. Surgery finds in the Crohn’s disease a main role in the management of the obstructive or septic complications; however, elective surgical treatments are proposed in patients with sub-occlusive presentation due to chronic fistulas or with high CD index (>220) with a terminal ileum-cecum disease. | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23066-5_17 | |
URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23066-5 | |
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