Third European Evidence-based Consensus on Diagnosis and Management of Ulcerative Colitis. Part 2: Current Management

Journal of Crohn's and Colitis - Tập 11 Số 7 - Trang 769-784 - 2017
Marcus Harbord1, Rami Eliakim2, Dominik Bettenworth3, Konstantinos Karmiris4, Κωνσταντίνος Κατσάνος5, Uri Kopylov6, Torsten Kucharzik7, Tamás Molnár8, Tim Raine9, Shaji Sebastian10, Jean–Frédéric Colombel11,12, Axel Dignaß13, Franck Carbonnel14
1Imperial College London, and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital a , London , UK
2Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Chaim Sheba Medical Center b , Tel Hashomer , Israel
3Department of Medicine B, University Hospital Münster, c Münster , Germany
4Department of Gastroenterology, Venizeleio General Hospital d , Heraklion, Crete , Greece
5Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University and Medical School of Ioannina e , Ioannina , Greece
6Department of Gastroenterology, Tel-Hashomer Sheba Medical Center, and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University f , Israel
7Department of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, Hospital Lüneburg g , Lüneburg , Germany
8First Department of Medicine, University of Szeged h , Szeged , Hungary
9Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge i , Cambridge , UK
10IBD Unit, Hull & East Yorkshire NHS Trust j , Hull , UK
11Gastroenterology Department, Algarve Hospital Center; Biomedical Sciences & Medicine Department, University of Algarve k , Faro , Portugal
12kGastroenterology Department, Algarve Hospital Center
13Department of Medicine I, Agaplesion Markus Hospital l , Frankfurt/Main , Germany
14Department of Gastroenterology, CHU Bicêtre, Université Paris Sud m , Paris , France

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