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Airway Involvement In Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Not yet recruiting
Conditions
IBD
Registration Number
NCT06090045
Lead Sponsor
Assiut University
Brief Summary

To estimate prevalence of subclinical airway injuries among IBD patients. To investigate relationship between activity of IBD and airways

Detailed Description

Airway diseases are the most commonly described lung manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). However, the similarities in disease pathogenesis and the sharing of important environmental risk factors and genetic susceptibility suggest that there is a complex interplay between IBD and airway diseases.Extraintestinal manifestations (EIM) commonly occur in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), with a prevalence rate between 21%-41% reported in various series. Crohn's disease (CD) presents with EIM more frequently than ulcerative colitis (UC). Pulmonary involvement complicating IBD was originally considered rare (with a frequency rate \< 1%), but the first case series published in 1976 assisted in better recognition, evaluation and description of IBD related respiratory disease. Pulmonary involvement is often asymptomatic and may be detected solely on the basis of abnormal screening tests. This review will focus on the involvement of the airways in the context of IBD. Although IBD related PM were originally considered rare, certain population-based studies have revealed significant interrelationships between the lungs and IBD. Bernstein and colleagues in a large population-based study in North America in 2005 reported that airway disorders in general (including asthma and bronchitis) were the most common extraintestinal manifestation in subjects with CD and the second most common in subjects with UC, with the prevalence of asthma in this population between 7%-8%. In another retrospective study from the opposite view, Birring reported that IBD was 4 times more prevalent among patients with airway diseases, particularly non-asthmatic patients with productive cough, than in the general population.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
70
Inclusion Criteria
  • Patients attended to IBD clinic at Tropical Department
Exclusion Criteria
  1. Age: less than 18 years
  2. Unstable patients or need for ICU admission

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Predictors of airway diseases in patients with IBDbaseline

FROM risk factors

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
-Prevalence of of subclinical airway injuries among IBD patients presented to Tropical Department in Assiut University Hospitalbaseline

from statistical anyalasis

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