Finger clubbing was present in 105 of 181 (58%) patients. It was related to the activity but not to the site of the disease and disappeared two to three months after the disease became quiescent.

Crohn Disease↗

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Etiology of Crohn's disease.

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Crohn Disease↗

PubMed1970

Mortality in Crohn's disease.

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Adult↗

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Pregnancy and Crohn's disease.

Of 77 married women with Crohn's disease, 25 were sterile. In the remaining 52 (98 pregnancies) the risks of prematurity, stillbirth, abortion, or congenital abnormality were not increased. There was no evidence that pregnancy exerted adverse effects on the course of the disease or increased the mortality rate. Sterility was the main problem encountered.

Abortion, Spontaneous↗

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Recurrent acute retrograde intragastric intussusception.

A case of recurrent acute retrograde jejunogastric intussusception is described in a 45-year-old man who five years previously had had an antecolic gastrojejunostomy. Two previous haematemases imply that this complication was recurrent and self reducing an unusual and fortuitous outcome. Awareness of the possibility of acute intussusception following gastroenterostomy or partial gastrectomy is stressed.

Acute Disease↗

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Corticosteroid or corticotrophin therapy in Crohn's disease (regional enteritis).

Amongst 300 patients with Crohn's disease followed between 1944 and 1968, corticosteroids or corticotrophin was given to 124 patients, to 87 of them for more than 12 months. In the short-term assessment of 89 of these patients, 76% improved clinically within six months, but within 12 months 29% of these had relapsed. In the long term, the risk of operation each year for the patients treated with steroids was twice that of those not treated. There was a significantly increased mortality rate in the patients treated with steroids which in part was due to complications induced by this therapy for which no evidence of long-term benefit emerged from this study.

Administration, Oral↗

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Crohn's disease of the stomach and duodenum.

Clinical and radiological abnormalities in 12 patients with gastroduodenal involvement were encountered amongst 300 patients followed by one of us between 1944 and 1969. Symptoms of dyspepsia were relatively mild and obstructive symptoms when present were readily relieved by bypass surgery. The patients have been followed for a mean of 9.7 years (range 1-20); two have died of other causes but the remaining 10 are well.

Adolescent↗

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Peptic ulceration in Crohn's disease (reional enteritis).

The incidence of peptic ulceration in a personal series of 300 patients with Crohn's disease was 8%. Resection of 60 or more centimetres of the small intestine was associated with significantly increased acid output, both basally and following pentagastrin stimulation. Only five (4%) of the 124 patients who received steroid steroid therapy developed peptic ulceration. It is suggested that resection of the distal small bowel may be a factor in the probable increase of peptic ulceration in Crohn's disease.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1969