Treatment of ulcerative colitis by the BRT method in a hospital setting
AUTHORS : Gustomesova IN AND. | Sviridova T.N. | Gustomesova E.L. | Zvereva E.E.
RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : BUZ VOKB No. 1, N.N.Burdenko VGMA, Voronezh, Russia
YEAR : 2014
Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), which include ulcerative colitis (UC), Crohn’s disease (CD) and, in recent years, undifferentiated colitis, remain one of
the urgent problems of modern gastroenterology. The urgency of the problem of IBD is beyond doubt: the etiology remains unclear, the incidence among people of
working age is increasing, there is no specific treatment, the recurrent course is accompanied by the development of severe, life-threatening complications. IBD
requires long-term, often lifelong, expensive therapy and has an unfavorable medical and social prognosis.
Ulcerative colitis is a chronic recurrent inflammatory bowel disease of
unknown etiology, characterized by the presence of a diffuse inflammatory process
in the colon mucosa