Review article
https://doi.org/10.21860/medflum2020_237301
Biological therapy in chronic inflammatory bowel disease treatment
Dora Milaković
; Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Hrvatska
Marija Crnčević Urek
; Zavod za gastroenterologiju, hepatologiju i kliničku prehranu, Klinika za unutarnje bolesti, KB Dubrava, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
Inflammatory bowel disease is a chronic infammatory disorder of gastrointestinal system with unknown cause, which include Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis and undetermined colitis. The aim of treatment is to induce clinical remission of disease and to achieve mucousal healing. Biological therapy is a big progress in treatment because it can inhibite inflammatory cascade found in the base of chronic inflammatory disease, modify disease and stop its progression. That therapy is very complex with many possibly serious side effects, so its use requires experience and it is used mostly in specialised centers, but also more and more in other hospitals.
Keywords
biological therapy; Crohn’s disease; ulcerative colitis
Hrčak ID:
237301
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Publication date:
1.6.2020.
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