Experts agree that intestinal ultrasound is repeatable, well-tolerated, and accurately diagnoses and provides a monitoring strategy for small bowel Crohn's disease strictures. Diverse roundtable panel ...

A propensity score-matched study of 280 infants suggests primary anastomosis shortens hospital stay and lowers early ...

For millions of people living with Crohn's disease, the most feared complication is not the inflammation itself but what it ...

Patients suffering from Crohn's disease, a chronic inflammatory intestinal disorder, develop painful constrictions in the bowel. Due to a lack of methods until now, these complications cannot be ...

The majority of patients with Crohn's disease (CD) are likely to develop symptomatic intestinal strictures, which are a major indication for surgery. Currently, there are no specific anti-stricture ...

Creeping fat — the abnormal expansion of mesenteric adipose tissue around the intestines — is an active driver of intestinal scarring in Crohn’s disease (CD), highlighting a potential new therapeutic ...

Fat—adipose tissue—is more complicated than might be thought. Once considered just a bag of calories, scientists now know that fat doesn’t just squirrel away energy, it also sends and receives ...

An anastomosis from colon surgery can take several weeks to fully heal. Checking in with your care team is important, as problems such as anastomotic leakage need immediate attention. If a section of ...