Clinical Advances in Chronic Intestinal Diseases Treatment

Dear Colleagues,

Over the past two decades, several advances have been made in the management of patients with chronic intestinal diseases from both evaluative and therapeutic perspectives. Among other chronic intestinal pathologies, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), involving gut-brain axis alterations that causes abdominal pain, bloating, and alternating diarrhea and constipation, and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), characterized by chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, are the best known and with the highest incidence and prevalence. Both chronic conditions, with significant overlap in terms of symptoms, pathophysiology, and treatment, need to be managed over long term and sometimes with overlay treatments.

However, new clinical approaches with novel mechanisms of action could offer new options for treatment of chronic intestinal diseases not optimally caracterized and controlled. Integration of novel approaches into clinical practice together with emerging strategies for management of chronic intestinal diseases will allow physicians to improve patient outcomes and potentially alter the progressive course of these diseases. Chronic intestinal diseases have a significant effect on the quality of life of affected patients and the increasing number of cases worldwide is a growing concern. Because of the overall burden of these diseases and its multifactorial etiology, efforts have been made to improve the medical management of these conditions.

This special issue aims to gather in one collection reviews and original contributions to illustrate the state of the art to provide novel approaches for the treatment of chronic intestinal diseases and the envisaged future in the management of these pathologies. On behalf of the Journal of Clinical Medicine you are cordially invited to contribute an article to the Special Issue “Clinical Advances in Chronic Intestinal Diseases Treatment”. Research articles, Reviews and Communications are welcome.

Dr. Jose E. Mesonero
Dr. Eva Latorre
Guest Editors

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