Is there a change in the natural history of Crohn's disease; surgical rates and medical management in a population-based inception cohort from western Hungary between 1977–2008
P Lakatos, G Dávid, T Pandur, Z Erdélyi, G Mester, M Balogh, I Szipocs, C Molnár, E Komáromi, L Kiss, L Lakatos · Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie · 2011 · Heft 05
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Background and Aims: Several factors may be associated with the need for surgery, including disease phenotype and medical therapy. Our aim was to analyze the evolution of the surgical rates and medical therapy in the population-based Veszprem province database, which included incident patients diagnosed between January 1, 1977 and December 31, 2008. Methods: Data of 506 incident CD patients were analysed age-at-diagnosis: 31.5 SD13.8years). Both hospital and outpatient records were collected and comprehensively reviewed. The study population was divided into three groups by year of diagnosis (cohort A: 1977–1989…
