Nonspecific Intestinal Inflammations

Nonspecific intestinal inflammations include Crohn's disease (ileitis terminalis) a ulcerative colitis (proctocolitis idiopathica). These are chronic inflammatory diseases of the digestive tract, which are often accompanied by abundant extraintestinal symptoms. Both diseases begin in childhood or adolescence and their etiology is unclear. The incidence and prevalence of nonspecific intestinal inflammation has been increasing in recent years, 20-30 % of the patients are children under 18 years of age.

náhled|300px|Crohnova choroba vs. ulcerózní kolitida It is a chronic non-specific inflammation of the small or large intestine (or any part of the GIT). It is a segmental or multisegmental, transmural, typically granulomatous inflammation.
 * Crohnova choroba

Non-specific hemorrhagic-catarrhal or ulcerative inflammation of the rectum and the adjacent part (or the entire colon) with a sudden or chronically exacerbating course.
 * Ulcerative colitis

It is an inflammation of the large intestine with characteristic overlapping features of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis or with various atypical signs, thanks to which the disease cannot be conclusively classified.
 * Indeterminate colitis

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