300905 Study Guide - Final Guide: Deep Vein Thrombosis, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Bronchiolitis Obliterans

• School: UWS
• Department: University of Western Sydney
• Course: 300905
• Professor: anonymous

Document Summary

Inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) is a group of inflammatory conditions of the colon and small intestine. Crohn"s disease and ulcerative colitis are the principal types of inflammatory bowel disease. Crohn"s disease affects the small intestine and large intestine, as well as the mouth, oesophagus, stomach and the anus, whereas ulcerative colitis primarily affects the colon and the rectum. In spite of crohn"s and uc being very different diseases, both may present with any of the following symptoms: abdominal pain, diarrhea, rectal bleeding, severe internal cramps/muscle spasms in the region of the pelvis and weight loss. Anemia is the most prevalent extraintestinal complication of inflammatory bowel disease. Associated complaints or diseases include arthritis, pyoderma gangrenosum, primary sclerosing cholangis, and non-thyroidal illness syndrome (ntis). Associations with deep vein thrombosis (dvt) and bronchiolitis obliterans organising pneumonia (boop) have also been reported. Diagnosis is generally by assessment of inflammatory markers in stool followed by colonscopy with biopsy of pathological lesions.