IBD
Inpatient Management Guide Definition Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD): Term primarily used to describe two separate but overlapping disease entities: Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Crohn’s Disease (CD): Relapsing and remitting systemic inflammatory disease, predominantly affecting the GI tract characterized by inflammatory cell infiltration, focal crypt irregularity and granulomas within the GI mucosa. The intestinal inflammation …