Ileocolonic Crohn's Case Study

Crohn’s Disease was named after an American gastroenterologist, Dr. Burrill Bernard Crohn, in 1932. He and his colleagues discovered an abnormal pathogen, Mycobacterium paratuberculosis while studying a related disease, ulcerative colitis, which belongs to a larger group if illnesses called Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). The discovery was made while studying the effects of ulcerative colitis in cattle and noticing the similar characteristics in humans. The infections had an abnormal response with the body’s immune system in both the cattle and humans.

Crohn’s disease is a chronic condition that affects a person’s digestive system with no known cause. When Crohn’s disease strikes, it can affect any part of your digestive system ranging from your mouth, all the way to your anus. Crohn’s disease is chronic and there is no known cure for this condition. So basically, once someone is diagnosed with this condition, they might as well get used to living out the remainder of their life being affected by Crohn’s disease. Crohn’s is not, shall we say, “constant”. The symptoms happen on and off in what are usually called “flare-ups”.

When a person has one, it doesn’t mean that by this time next week, it will go away. It means that they will continue to deal with the symptoms of that disease until the day they die. That is a daunting thought, often too large in scale for anyone to truly take seriously.

Crohn’s disease is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that causes an inflammation of the GI tract. The symptoms of this disease are mild to severe, and they commonly include varying degrees of abdominal pain, frequent diarrhea, fatigue, rectal bleeding, and unexplained weight loss. Crohn’s disease is a lifelong and progressive condition that leaves approximately seven-hundred thousand Americans without a cure. As disheartening as it is, it has proven my little sister to be the fighter of my family and has lead me to admire her for it. Her battle with her new health condition has shown me how to brave and optimistic in the most trying of situations.

diagnosis doctors will review family history and do a physical examination. Some risk factors include cigarette smoking and some genetic mutations. In children, the use of antibiotics may have an effect leading to Crohn’s Disease. 1 Although CD may occur at any age, it tends to occur before the age of 30. The disease is common among whites and Eastern European Jewish descent. These ethnicities are at higher risk but Crohn’s disease can affect anyone.4

Renal History: The patient learned that he had kidney disease a few years ago. He had a biopsy in October 2012 that showed IgA nephropathy per TGH records. He started dialysis in 2013. Initially, he started peritoneal dialysis for seven months. He had a lot of side effects

Chweyah, dated 08/11/2017, indicated that the claimant presented for a follow-up visit after his discharge from the hospital on 08/08/2017. He was admitted on 08/04/2017 due to normocytic anemia, pain in both knees, starvation ketoacidosis, hypertension, gout with tophus, and duodenitis. The esophagogastroduodenoscopy revealed erythematous duodenopathy, erythematous mucosa in the antrum, and small hiatal hernia. He had a colonoscopy which revealed internal hemorrhoids. Objective findings showed blood pressure of 112/86 with a pulse of 105. He was diagnosed with quadriceps weakness, pain in both knees, normocytic anemia, type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, stable chronic kidney disease stage III, and bilateral impacted cerumen. It was noted that he can return to work on 08/16/2017 with limitations of not standing for more than 10 minutes at a time for 1

Growing up, I was ill and in the hospital frequently. Most of these instances were due to Crohn’s disease, but my first trip to the hospital had nothing to do with my stomach or immune system. For my eighth birthday I had gotten my ears pierced. I was extremely paranoid about the earring falling out and the hole closing up. This resulted in me forming a habit of pushing the backs of the earrings on as hard as I could. Eventually, I realized that I could no longer feel the backs of my earrings. I tried to take the earrings out to change them, but they would not come out of my ears. I decided that I wasn’t worried about it, because at least I knew they weren’t going to fall out. When I finally told my mom, she wasn’t able to get the earrings

Crohn’s disease is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that is characterized by inflammation of the digestive, or gastrointestinal tract. It can affect any part of the GI tract, including the mouth and anus. However, Crohn’s most often affects the end of the small intestine (Crohn’s & Colitis, 2016). Crohn’s disease does not have a cure and there is no exact cause for the occurring disease. “Since the exact cause of Crohn’s disease is unknown, it has been linked to a combination of environmental factors, immune function and bacterial factors, as well as a patient’s genetic susceptibility to developing the disease” (History Cooperative, 2014).

I really enjoyed reading your response to DQ and how well you discribe Crohn and ulcerative colititis. I also wrote similar discription but I includded the part about family history of having ulcerative colititis and especially from a Jewish descent. Both of these diseases similar symptoms so mecidcal evaluation would have to be done to get the right diagnoses. Crohn disease is also associated with smoking and it is silently increase in women than

In western population alone, 140 people per 100 000 are diagnosed with Crohn’s disease annually. This results in an estimated cost of €3.04bn a year in the European healthcare system [1]. As a chronic inflammation of the bowel, Crohn’s patients require frequent check-ups and therapies to regulate their symptoms and maintain remission of this debilitating disease. This is often done through the use of corticosteroids (an anti-inflammatory drug) or the more modern technique of biological therapies. Although effective in many cases, these therapies often have severe long term side effects or are simply ineffective in forcing the disease into remission. As a result, there is a

​Gulf War Syndrome is a chronic multi symptom illness affecting 250,000 of the 697,000 1991 Desert Storm Gulf War veterans. Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans may also suffer from this syndrome. The Veterans Administration “refers to these illnesses as “chronic multi symptom illness” and “undiagnosed illnesses”. We prefer not to use the term “Gulf War Syndrome” when referring to medically unexplained symptoms reported by Gulf War veterans. Why? Because symptoms vary widely” (Gulf War Veterans Medically Unexplained Illnesses, 2016). The illnesses included in this syndrome are: chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, functional gastrointestinal disorders, and undiagnosed illnesses including fatigue, cardiovascular disease, muscle and joint pain, respiratory disorders, headaches neurological and psychological problems, and sleep disorders.

This is a 37-year-old, Afro-American male who I am meeting for the first time. He has intermittent left lower quadrant pain over the last four years, currently this pain comes and goes. No identified precipitant and it seems to go away on its own. He denies any diarrhea, constipation, nausea, vomiting, or weight loss. He was previously diagnosed with Crohn's disease but those records are not available for my review. He is on no medications for Crohn's disease at this time. He has a history of hypertension and takes hydrochlorothiazide.

Crohn’s disease (CD) is a specific inflammatory condition that is included in the group of inflammatory bowel diseases. CD is a chronic and lifelong inflammatory disease that affects one or multiple areas of the intestinal tract.1 CD can affect any segment of the intestinal tract or tissues from other organs but usually affects the small or large intestine. Although not very common, Crohn’s disease can affect the stomach as well.3 The intestinal tract includes the small intestine which consists of the duodenum, jejunum, and ilium. The large intestine, which is also a part of the intestinal tract, consists of the cecum; appendix, ascending colon, transverse colon, descending colon, and sigmoid colon.2

Crohn’s disease is a type chronic inflammatory bowel disease of the gastrointestinal tract affecting 26-200 per 100,000 in European Populations. 10 There is currently no known cure and disease is managed by a combination of immune- suppressing medications, nutritional changes or surgery. 4 Most commonly, the disease affects the ileum and colon but complications can be present in any part of the gastrointestinal tract. Disease symptoms are persistent diarrhea, abdominal pain and cramping, loss of weight, and fever. 13 Most patients have chronic bleeding from inflamed tissues in the gastrointestinal tract. This can lead to anemia. In some cases, problems affecting joints, eyes, and skin may occur. 13 In some patients, fistulae can occur. Fistulae