PubMed · 14849984
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R ELSTE. 1951-05-31. [Multiple sclerosis].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14849984/
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Patients receiving immunosuppression are at higher risk for gastrointestinal complications: mortality is high if they are not diagnosed and treated rapidly. Systematic screening for cholelithiasis or diverticular disease, and prophylactic surgery, are not recommended systematically anymore. Patients awaiting a transplant with abdominal symptoms should be investigated without delay and surgery, if indicated and whenever possible based on the anaesthetic evaluation, should be performed. In the transplant population, a high degree of suspicion must be raised in case of any abdominal symptom. Radiological investigations and surgery without delay are often the only ways to preserve the function of the graft and optimize the patient's survival.
The primary systemic vasculitides are a rare group of inflammatory disorders, where damage is directed against the blood vessels. They range in severity from acute self-limiting illness to chronic life and organ threatening diseases requiring long-term treatment with toxic immunosuppressive regimes. None of them have specific tests and few have hard diagnostic criteria. This review summarises the gastrointestinal features of these diseases, along with their general clinical and epidemiological features and the evidence available to guide in their management.
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