Osaka · Japan
Osaka Police Hospital (大阪けいさつ病院), Osaka International Medical & Science Center
IBD Center (IBD（炎症性腸疾患）センター)
The IBD Center treats ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease and other refractory inflammatory bowel conditions such as intestinal Behçet's disease, from mild to severe. Gastroenterologists and gastrointestinal surgeons work with nurses, pharmacists and dietitians as one team, and the centre also gives dietary guidance and help with daily life. Treatment runs from 5-ASA drugs, steroids and immunomodulators (with NUDT15 testing first) to biologics, JAK inhibitors and other targeted drugs, endoscopic balloon dilation for strictures, and surgery including seton drainage for Crohn's fistulas.
What this unit is strong at
- Gastroenterologists and gastrointestinal surgeons working with nurses, pharmacists and dietitians
- Intestinal Behçet’s disease, eosinophilic gastroenteritis and chronic non-specific multiple ulcers of the small intestine treated alongside ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease
- NUDT15 genetic testing before immunomodulators
- Biologics (anti-TNF-α, anti-IL-12/23, anti-integrin α4β7), JAK inhibitors and S1P-targeted drugs
- Endoscopic balloon dilation of strictures; stricturoplasty and seton drainage for Crohn’s fistulas
- In 2025: 22 ulcerative colitis and 37 Crohn’s disease inpatients, 43 double-balloon enteroscopies and 32 small-bowel capsule endoscopies (the capsule count includes non-IBD patients)
Services
The team
飯島 英樹 (Hideki Iijima)
Physician, IBD Center; 副院長 (Deputy Hospital Director) and Director, Clinical Research Institute
Gastroenterology, especially GI tract disease and inflammatory bowel disease
高橋 秀和 (Hidekazu Takahashi)
Surgeon, IBD Center; 副部長 (Deputy Head)
Colorectal surgery
Where this came from
Everything on this page was read on the centre’s own published pages. Nothing here is inferred, and nothing is filled in where we could not find it.
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