New Advances in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Diarrheal Disorders
A special issue of Medicina (ISSN 1648-9144). This special issue belongs to the section "Gastroenterology & Hepatology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 130
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Interests: gastroenterology; hepatology
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Dear Colleagues,
Recent decades have seen a significant increase in the global prevalence of inflammatory bowel diseases. The steady developments in the performance of imaging techniques, as well as the emergence of new therapeutic targets and molecules with higher treatment efficiency, have led to continuous improvements in the prognosis of patients with inflammatory bowel diseases with a significant increase in their quality of life. However, substantial progress is still needed for adequate control of the disease. As most chronic inflammatory bowel diseases have evolved over decades, the malignant potential of severe and extended forms must be taken into account, especially in poorly controlled cases, where significant mucosal changes may render the recognition of early abnormalities such as dysplasia or early carcinoma difficult.
The possibility of other potential causes of diarrhea, especially celiac disease or infectious colitis, must always be considered. Atypical forms of celiac diseases, especially the sero-negative type and the non-celiac villous atrophy, represent underrecognized entities in patients with chronic diarrhea. Infectious colitis, such as Clostridium difficile infection, Yersinia, or cytomegalovirus colitis, as well as intestinal tuberculosis in some geographic areas, may impact the evolution of inflammatory bowel diseases or pose significant problems for their diagnosis. Evolving microbial resistance to antibiotics, noted over recent years, may represent an important obstacle in the management plan of infectious colitis.
Prof. Dr. Ion Rogoveanu
Guest Editor
Dr. Sergiu Marian Cazacu
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- ulcerative colitis
- Crohn’s disease
- Clostridium difficile
- celiac disease
- cytomegalovirus colitis
- Yersinia colitis
- intestinal tuberculosis
- villous atrophy
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