Inflammatory Bowel Disease

The Laboratory Bench.- Introduction: Inflammatory bowel disease: from bench to bedside.- The changing faces of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.- Genetics of inflammatory bowel disease.- Experimental mouse models of inflammatory bowel disease: new insights into pathogenic mechanisms.- The normal intestinal mucosa: a state of ‘controlled inflammation’.- The lymphocyte-epithelial-bacterial interface.- The mucosal inflammatory response. Cytokines and chemokines.- Role of the microcirculation in chronic gut inflammation.- Remission, relapse, intestinal healing and repair.- Antibodies in the exploration of inflammatory bowel disease pathogenesis and disease stratification.- Pathophysiology of inflammatory bowel disease: the effect of inflammation on intestinal function.- Systemic consequences of intestinal inflammation.- The Bedside.- Understanding symptoms and signs in inflammatory bowel disease.- Clinical course and complications of ulcerative colitis and ulcerative proctitis.- Clinical features and complications of Crohn’s disease.- Mechanisms of systemic inflammation associated with intestinal injury.- Pathology of inflammatory bowel disease: a critical appraisal in diagnosis and management.- An endoscopic and histologic perspective of diagnosis: when, where, and what to do.- Radiologic (radiographic) and imaging features of ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease.- New diagnostic approaches in inflammatory bowel disease.- Differential diagnosis of colitis.- ‘Disease management’ in chronic medical conditions.- Pharmacoeconomics and inflammatory bowel disease.- Measuring quality of life in inflammatory bowel disease.- Clinical pharmacology in inflammatory bowel disease: optimizing current medical therapy.- Multi-site therapeutic modalities forinflammatory bowel diseases — mechanisms of action.- Targeted therapies for inflammatory bowel disease.- Role of antibiotics and probiotics in the management of inflammatory bowel disease.- Nutrition in inflammatory bowel disease.- Medical management of ulcerative colitis.- Surgical management of ulcerative colitis.- Pouchitis: clinical characteristics and management.- Medical therapy for Crohn’s disease.- Surgery for Crohn’s disease.- Postoperative prevention of recurrence of Crohn’s disease.- The molecular pathology of inflammatory bowel disease-associated neoplasia and preneoplasia.- Dysplasia in inflammatory bowel disease: clinical pathology and current surveillance methods.- Hepatobiliary disorders.- Articular and ocular complications of inflammatory bowel disease.- Cutaneous manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease.- Fertility and pregnancy in inflammatory bowel disease.- Special considerations in the diagnosis and management of inflammatory bowel disease in the pediatric age group.- Microscopic colitis: collagenous and lymphocytic colitis.- Colon ischemia.- Diversion colitis.- Pseudomembranous colitis and Clostridium difficile infection.- Infectious colitis.- Human Immunodeficiency virus and inflammatory bowel disease.- Bone metabolism and inflammatory bowel disease.- Back to the Laboratory Bench.- Epilogue: Bench to bedside and back to bench.