Kaunas · Lithuania
Lietuvos sveikatos mokslų universiteto ligoninė Kauno klinikos — Gastroenterologijos klinika
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The IBD centre is one of the named units of the Gastroenterology Clinic at Kaunas Clinics. It diagnoses and treats ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease and microscopic colitis. The page says gastroenterologists there specialise in IBD, and that colorectal surgeons with IBD surgery experience, radiologists and pathologists provide services in the centre. It gives the clinic's IBD caseload as about 2,000 patients a year. A valid electronic referral is needed to book.
What this unit is strong at
- Listed as its own unit in the Gastroenterology Clinic, next to the endoscopy department and the rare liver disease centre
- High-resolution endoscopy and MR enterocolonography
- Biologic therapy (infliximab, adalimumab, vedolizumab, ustekinumab) and JAK inhibitors (tofacitinib)
- Stem-cell therapy for anorectal fistulas caused by Crohn's disease
- Endoscopic dilation of Crohn's strictures
- Diagnosis and treatment of microscopic (collagenous and lymphocytic) colitis
- Colorectal surgical consultation and surgery when medicines are not working or cannot be used
- Access to international clinical trials for patients whose standard treatment isn't working
Services
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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