IBD 2007 - Achievements in Research and Clinical Practice

• Epidemiology, risk factors and genetics.- Epidemiology and genetics of inflammatory bowel disease in Turkey.- Inflammatory bowel disease in Greece: 25-years’ epidemiological and clinical studies.- Inflammatory bowel disease in southern Europe.- Comparison to North and Central Europe.- Bacterial and viral infections mimicking inflammatory bowel disease.- Ileocolonic tuberculosis: a diagnostic challenge.- Bacterial and viral infections mimicking inflammatory bowel diseases.- Inflammatory bowel disease coexistent with viral hepatitis and HIV.- Diagnostic standards and developments in imaging.- Endoscopic and histological grading in inflammatory bowel disease.- Conventional imaging.- Cases and controversies.- State-of-the-Art Lecture: What is the role of surgery for inflammatory bowel disease — State of the art 2007.- State-of-the-Art Lecture: The changing face of inflammatory bowel disease over recent decades.- Laboratory markers and other tools.- Antibodies: useful tools or pathophysiology markers?.- How to diagnose Behçet’s and intestinal Behçet’s disease?.- Stool tests: are they useful?.- Features of drugs used in inflammatory bowel disease.- Features of drugs used in inflammatory bowel disease: 5-aminosalicylic acid (mesalazine).- Immunosuppressive drugs in inflammatory bowel disease: azathioprine.- Antibiotics and probiotics.- Features of drugs used in inflammatory bowel disease.- Treatment algorithms: “The standard patient”.- Mild-to-moderate left-sided ulcerative colitis and proctitis.- Treatment of mild-to-moderate episodes of extensive ulcerative colitis.- Mild to moderately active ileocaecal Crohn’s disease.- Therapy of mild to moderate colonic Crohn’s disease.- State-of-the-Art Lecture: Future therapies in inflammatory bowel diseases.- Casesand controversies.- Management of fistulizing Crohn’s disease: the conservative approach.- Fistulizing Crohn’s disease: the aggressive approach.- Refractory ulcerative colitis: the conservative approach.- Refractory ulcerative colitis: the aggressive approach.- The surgical approach for refractory ulcerative colitis.

From the reviews:"This book … focuses on IBD and related issues in a less well known part of the world with respect to prevalence, disease behavior, and patient characteristics, as well as the difficulties faced in differential diagnosis and management. … The monograph … is aimed predominantly at the IBD aficionado." (Willem JS de Villiers, Doody’s Review Service, March, 2009)