Pulmonary Involvement in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
What every physician needs to know: The inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, are immune-modulated disorders of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract that also have a number of manifestations outside the gut. Extraintestinal manifestations of IBD include pyoderma gangrenosum, erythema nodosum, uveitis, hemolysis, arthritis, and a broad variety of respiratory disorders. Respiratory disease…
