Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

1. Crohn's Disease

   • Etiology and Pathophysiology
   • Nursing Process
   • Treatment
   • Diagnosis

2. Ulcerative Colitis

   • Nursing process
   • Disease process/Etiology and Pathophysiology
     • Inflammation of mucosa and submucosa
       • Exaxerbation and remission
       • spreads continuously beginning from rectum to colon
     • Abscesses develop and break through the submucosa causing ulcerations
       • destroy mucosal epithelium
         • fluid and electrolyte loss
         • bleeding and diarrhea
         • can cause pseudopolyps
         • Thickening
           • shortening of colon
     • Causes
       • inflammatory response
         • tumour necrosis factor a
       • intestinal microbiota (cite article)
   • treatment
   • Diagnosis