Survey of inflammatory bowel diseases in India

Abstract

The present survey provides a reasonable picture of the demographic features and clinical manifestations of Indian patients with IBD, their risk factors, course of disease, and the treatment given to them.

Indian Society of Gastroenterology consensus statements on Crohn’s disease in India

“…Later studies from India indicated that 62 of 200 CD patients (31 %) in one series and 61 of 223 patients (27.4 %) in another had extraintestinal manifestations [16,17]. The Indian Society of Gastroenterology-Inflammatory Bowel Disease (ISG-IBD) Task Force in its survey of 409 patients with CD found that more than half of the patients (59 %) had extraintestinal symptoms [18]. In many Indian studies, Barthralgia^has been counted as Barthritis^without documentation and this very likely has increased the prevalence of extraintestinal manifestations dramatically.…”

“…The data collected by the ISG-IBD Task Force on 409 patients with CD showed that 4.6 % of them reported a definite diagnosis of IBD in at least one other member of their family [18].…”

“…Values shown are percentage of cases with the feature in each group TB tuberculosis, CD Crohn's disease Indian J Gastroenterol (January-February 2015) 34(1): [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]appropriate to re-endoscope patients who were treated empirically for intestinal tuberculosis and to establish complete mucosal healing at the end of 6 months. The Task Force was in agreement that this should be done, in view of the possibility that recurrent symptoms would make it difficult to judge whether the patient was in fact having intestinal tuberculosis or CD during the first episode.…”

Inflammatory bowel disease: the Indian augury

“…Of 409 cases of CD, more than 50 % were reported from southern India. However, an equivalent number of ulcerative colitis cases were reported from northern as well as southern India [4]. This is an exciting geo-epidemiological observation as it rebels against two traditional concepts of IBD epidemiology: the North-South divide [5] and interval emergence of ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease.…”

National consensus on inflammatory bowel disease in India—an initiator’s perspective

“…And after an inordinate delay that now seems acceptable we have the tortoise reaching the finish line with 2 publications in its basket: its report, and consensus statements and guidelines! [3,4].…”