Paediatric functional abdominal pain disorders, currently referred to as disorders of gut–brain interaction, comprise irritable bowel syndrome, functional dyspepsia, abdominal migraine and functional abdominal pain not otherwise specified, as defined by
Overall, 71% of non-elective UC admissions were seen by an IBD nurse.ConclusionThere were signs of improving UC care from 2008 to 2011 with significantly increased rates of stool culture sampling and use of rescue therapy, but the majority of sites did not use PUCAI scores to assess ...
Method: A retrospective review of clinical notes and the service's IBD database from January 2019 to September 2020. Results: There was a significant increase in the number of email and telephone contacts to the IBD CNS team during lockdown. There was an increase in virtual clinics, and an...
Association between body mass index and age of disease onset with clinical outcomes in paediatric-onset Crohn’s Disease (CD): a UK nation-wide analyses using the NIHR-IBD BioResource Article Open access 12 March 2024 Real world analysis on the efficacy and safety of anti-tumor necrosis fact...
IntroductionIn 1997, a national prospective survey (British Paediatric Surveillance Unit (BPSU)) of childhood (<16 years) inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in the UK provided the best international prospective incidence data of a large IBD cohort; it documented a national incidence of 5.2 /100 000...
IBDcrohn’s diseaseIntroduction Acute upper gastrointestinal (GI) haemorrhage is rare in paediatric practice but continues to cause significant morbidity and mortality. Guidelines for the management of GI bleeding in children exist but their evidence base is limited and their implementation in the UK ...
During the transition, it is essential to guarantee the continuity of medical assistance from paediatric to adult IBD units [6]. Recently, some clinical practice guidelines and consensus recommendations on transition in IBD have been published [5,7,8,9,10]. However, the majority of their recomme...