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Review article: should we treat symptoms or lesions in Crohn's disease? The case for treating symptoms
Author(s) -
SCHÖLMERICH J.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
alimentary pharmacology and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.308
H-Index - 177
eISSN - 1365-2036
pISSN - 0269-2813
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2036.2006.03057.x
Subject(s) - medicine , disease , crohn's disease , crohn disease , dermatology , intensive care medicine
Summary Apart from treating symptoms, mucosal healing is a reasonable aim of therapy in Crohn's disease. In most patients, however, the disease takes a mild course and treating symptoms seems sufficient. Eliminating lesions may change the course of the disease long‐term but this has not yet been proven. Thus far we need to treat symptoms efficiently and may attempt to restore bacterial epithelial interaction.