IBD

Question 1

IBD=

Answer 1

Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis

Question 2

Symptoms

Answer 2

pain, bloody diarrhoea and ulcers

Question 3

Ulcerative colitis

Answer 3

signs: tender abdomen, tachycardia, pyrexia and extra intestinal manifestations.
Inflammation confined to colon and is continuous

Question 4

Crohn’s disease

Answer 4

can affect any part of GI tract (normally ileum and colon) and is discontinuous

Question 5

Treatments

Answer 5

steroids, mesalazines, immunosupressants and bilogics (anti-TNF)
Need to operate in an emergency/ medical treatment fails:
Protolectomy with ileostomy for UC
Ileocaecal resection, colectomy with ileo-rectal anastomosis or prolectomy with ileostomy for Crohn’s