Bailliere's clinical gastroenterology

Rectal bleeding is the cardinal symptom in patients with inflammation of the rectum, and initial management must be directed at establishing an underlying diagnosis. In many patients in the Western World this will be idiopathic inflammatory…

It is clear that the nutritional state of patients with inflammatory bowel disease is often impaired and can be improved by the provision of nutritional support. Improvement in nutritional status can be achieved as effectively with enteral …