Chronic inflammatory enteropathy

When and in what locations gastrointestinal symptoms seem to evoke the possibility of a chronic inflammatory enteropathy? Nearly 30% of symptoms Inflammatory Bowel Disease are extra-intestinal because at the end of the inflammation, particularly in Crohn's disease, is systemic. These, if we can make a list, mainly affect the joints is smaller than - hands, is larger than - the knee, both the axial - back, and may represent a form of disabling To give a measure: nearly one in five of our patients has this type of problem. The other affected organ is the skin events that may have more or less severe. And, again, a fair percentage of patients also has a liver disease and this is often associated with the severity and also with the use of steroids that, somehow, it is equivalent. This is not clinically manifest, However, if an examination is often sees that the indices of liver damage are altered. Another confounding factor is represented by the finding of stones in the gallbladder. Why is this important? Because, unfortunately, patients and patients with Crohn's disease undergo an intervention in 70% of surgical patients. If the patient has a biliary calculi can be pain, then the end is the symptom that we must raise the alarm, may be misunderstood and can be that patients should be met to a greater number of interventions. Still, even symptoms and eye damage may be, although less frequent because these represent the 1-2% of extra damage extraintestinal symptoms.