inflammatory bowel diseases
Sign in to saveAlso known as IBD, inflammatory bowel disease
intestinal disease characterized by inflammation located in all parts of digestive tract
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Vinony's link graph records 847 inbound references to inflammatory bowel diseases, and connects out to large intestine, inguinal hernia and human digestive system.
Vinony files it under Autoimmune diseases, Gastrointestinal tract disorders and Inflammatory bowel disease.
Vinony links it to 35 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Specialty
- Gastroenterology
- Differential diagnosis
- Gastroenteritis , irritable bowel syndrome , celiac disease
- Frequency
- 11.2 million worldwide (2015)
- Deaths
- 47,400 worldwide (2015)
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
130,954 papers- Pathophysiology of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases.The New England journal of medicine · 2020
- The circadian clock in inflammatory bowel diseases.Trends in molecular medicine · 2025
- Inflammatory bowel disease.Nature · 2016
- The Microbiome and Inflammatory Bowel Diseases.The Surgical clinics of North America · 2025
- [Chronic inflammatory bowel diseases].Der Internist · 2014
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- immune disorder
- Image
- Cryptitis high mag.jpg
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- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Medicine
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C3138
- health specialty
- gastroenterology
- drug or therapy used for treatment
- cromoglicic acid
- Commons category
- Inflammatory bowel diseases
- exact match
- www.orpha.net/ORDO/Orphanet_104012
- short name
- IBD
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of inflammatory conditions of the colon and small intestine, with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis (UC) being the principal types. Crohn's disease affects the small intestine and large intestine, as well as the mouth, esophagus, stomach and the anus, whereas UC primarily affects the colon and the rectum.
Signs and symptoms
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “inflammatory bowel diseases” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.