WGO Practice Guideline - Inflammatory bowel disease: a global perspective
Title: Inflammatory bowel disease: a global perspective - June 2009
Introduction
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) represents a group of idiopathic chronic inflammatory intestinal conditions. The two main disease categories the term covers are Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), with both overlapping and distinct clinical and pathological features.
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Graded Evidence
Review Team
- Dr. Charles N. Bernstein (chairman, Canada)
- Prof. Michael Fried (Switzerland)
- Drs. J.H. Krabshuis (France)
- Prof. Henry Cohen (Uruguay)
- Prof. R. Eliakim (Israel)
- Prof. Suleiman Fedail (Sudan)
- Dr. Richard Gearry (New Zealand)
- Prof. K.L. Goh (Malaysia)
- Prof. Saheed Hamid (Pakistan)
- Dr. Aamir Ghafor Khan (Pakistan)
- Drs. A.W. LeMair (The Netherlands)
- Prof. P. Malfertheiner (Germany)
- Prof. Qin Ouyang (China)
- Prof. J.-F. Rey (France)
- Dr. Ajit Sood (India)
- Prof. Flavio Steinwurz (Brazil)
- Dr. Ole à˜. Thomsen (Denmark)
- Dr. Alan Thomson (Canada)
- Dr. Gillian Watermeyer (South Africa)
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