Paper of the Month - Volume 10 Issue 2

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Digestive Disease Week 2009
 (DDW 2009): Key Updates in
 IBD Clinical Research

Uma Mahadevan, MD, and Fernando Velayos, MD, MPH

Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2009 featured several important presentations about the optimal medical management of patients with IBD. Novel methods of determining disease activity, safety of medications with respect to impact on colorectal cancer and pregnancy, optimizing efficacy and duration of medical therapy, and effects on outcomes other than clinical remission (e.g. mucosal healing and fistula closure) were all discussed and are summarized below.



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