UEGW 2018: IBD: from epidemiology to costs and outcome
Dr Johan Burisch (Denmark) reviews data he presented on the cost saving effect of biological therapy in patients with IBD.
Dr Johan Burisch (Denmark) reviews data he presented on the cost saving effect of biological therapy in patients with IBD.
Inflammatory bowel disease can have a detrimental impact of health-related quality of life, and reducing the physical and psychological disease burden is an important therapeutic target. Patient-reported outcomes… read more.
To have a chance of preventing IBD clinicians need to be able to predict who is at risk, based on sensitive and selective risk factors. In a translational… read more.
IBD specialists have more treatment options than ever before; yet the optimal use of many agents, old as well as new, remains to be defined. A plenary session… read more.
This article summarises some of the key study updates presented at DDW 2018.
As a community IBD professionals are well aware of the need to raise the bar in terms of delivering quality care that maintains tight disease control and anticipates… read more.
Even with access to more potent and sophisticated drugs than ever before, IBD professionals still have a long way to go in optimising treatment and alleviating the long-term… read more.
Perianal fistula is a debilitating complication in CD which affects up to 50% of patients in the course of their disease…
The current research and development pipeline of novel biologic therapies and small molecule drugs promises improved efficacy and safety in the treatment of IBD in the near future…. read more.
By Maria Dalby (article) and Peter Mas Mollinedo (interviews) The decision to perform a colectomy in patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) should not be made lightly. Such a… read more.
Dr Peter Irving (London) talks about one of the hot topics for the future -Maximising the bang for your buck in IBD. He highlights the possible benefits of treating… read more.
An interesting session at ECCO dealt with the patients for whom there is sparce data to guide their treatment – experts in the field gave their guidance to… read more.