Predictors of surgical intervention in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (two-center study)

Abstract Background Sixty percent of Crohn’s disease (CD) patients require intestinal resection, and 20% of ulcerative colitis (UC) patients undergo proctocolectomy for medically refractory disease. Scarcity of literature about predictors for surgical intervention in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)...

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Main Authors: Khaled Hamdy Abd El Megeed, Shereen Abou Bakr Saleh, Ahmed Elkattary Mohamed, Christina Alphonse Anwar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2021-07-01
Series:The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s43162-021-00050-3