Katsuyoshi Matsuoka, Taku Kobayashi, Fumiaki Ueno, Toshiyuki Matsui, Fumihito Hirai, Nagamu Inoue, Jun Kato, Kenji Kobayashi, Kiyonori Kobayashi, Kazutaka Koganei, Reiko Kunisaki, Satoshi Motoya, Masakazu Nagahori, Hiroshi Nakase, Fumio Omata, Masayuki Saruta, Toshiaki Watanabe, Toshiaki Tanaka, Takanori Kanai, Yoshinori Noguchi, Ken-Ichi Takahashi, Kenji Watanabe, Toshifumi Hibi, Yasuo Suzuki, Mamoru Watanabe, Kentaro Sugano, Tooru Shimosegawa
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic disorder involving mainly the intestinal tract, but possibly other gastrointestinal and extraintestinal organs. Although etiology is still uncertain, recent knowledge in pathogenesis has accumulated, and novel diagnostic and therapeutic modalities have become available for clinical use. Therefore, the previous guidelines were urged to be updated. In 2016, the Japanese Society of Gastroenterology revised the previous versions of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD) in Japanese...
February 10, 2018: Journal of Gastroenterology