Sapporo · Japan
Sapporo Higashi Tokushukai Hospital (札幌東徳洲会病院)
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center (炎症性腸疾患センター（IBDセンター）)
The IBD Center is a specialist department for diagnosing and treating inflammatory bowel disease, opened in 2008 and staffed by three full-time and two part-time specialists. It puts particular weight on small-bowel investigation (small-bowel contrast studies, MRI, capsule endoscopy and balloon-assisted enteroscopy) and uses abdominal ultrasound to reduce the burden of monitoring ulcerative colitis. Treatment runs from 5-ASA drugs and enteral nutrition to biologics and JAK inhibitors, endoscopic balloon dilation for Crohn's strictures, and surgery with the hospital's surgeons; nurses, registered dietitians, pharmacists and technicians work as a team, and there are Saturday-morning and weekly evening clinics.
What this unit is strong at
- A specialist IBD department opened in 2008, with three full-time and two part-time specialists
- Small-bowel investigation: contrast studies, small-bowel MRI, capsule endoscopy and balloon-assisted enteroscopy
- Abdominal ultrasound used to reduce the burden of monitoring ulcerative colitis
- Anti-TNF-α agents, vedolizumab, ustekinumab, the JAK inhibitor tofacitinib and tacrolimus, with NUDT15 testing before thiopurines
- Nasogastric enteral nutrition therapy for Crohn’s disease
- 70 endoscopic balloon dilations for Crohn’s strictures in 2020
- In 2020 the hospital’s surgeons performed 14 bowel resections for Crohn’s, 10 operations for anal fistula or perianal abscess and 4 for ulcerative colitis
- 1,015 ulcerative colitis and 520 Crohn’s disease outpatients in fiscal 2025
- A Saturday-morning clinic and a weekly evening clinic (appointment only) for patients who cannot come in by day
- Team care with nurses, registered dietitians, pharmacists and technicians; an international support office for patients who speak other languages
Services
The team
前本 篤男
IBDセンター長 (Director), IBD Center; Deputy Hospital Director
伊藤 貴博
IBD副センター長 (Deputy Director), IBD Center; Head of Department
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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