Brooks T. Kuhn

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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…

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