Non-specific intestinal inflammations

Among the nonspecific intestinal inflammations' include Crohn's disease (ileitis terminalis) and 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 during adolescence and their etiology is unclear. The incidence and prevalence of non-specific intestinal inflammation has been increasing in recent years, 20-30% of patients are children under the age of 18.

It is a chronic non-specific inflammation of the small or large intestine (or any part of the GIT). It is segmental or multisegmental, transmural, in typical cases granulomatous inflammation. Non-specific hemorrhagic-catarrhal or ulcerative inflammation of the anus and the adjacent part (or the entire colon) with an abrupt or chronically exacerbating course. It is an inflammation of the large intestine with characteristic overlapping features of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis or with various atypical signs that make it impossible to clearly classify the disease.
 * Crohn's disease
 * Ulcerative colitis
 * Indeterminate (undetermined) colitis

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