Lead Authors: Bram Verstockt, João Sabino
Senior Authors: Kostas Katsanos, Pascal Juillerat, Piere Ellul
Welcome to the interactive case - Luminal Crohn's disease
This course has been developed by physicians who had recently participated in the writing of the ECCO Crohn's disease consensus Guidelines. This course is intended for those who are interested in Inflammatory Bowel Disease(s) (IBD). One major aim of this e-learning activity is to increase competence and knowledge with regard to Luminal disease in order to improve patient outcomes.
Duration: The estimated duration of the course is approximately 30 minutes.
Login to access this course: If you are not yet logged in, please log in with the username and password you were given upon membership registration (same as on the ECCO Website) to fully access this e-Course.
ECCO Members can take this course: In case you are not an ECCO Member or have not yet paid the annual member fee, please become an ECCO Member / renew your Membership.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this case you will:
- Know the evidence for induction of remission in mild-to-moderate Crohn’s disease;
- Know the evidence for maintaining remission in Crohn’s disease;
- Know the evidence on how to react upon disease flares, immediately after induction therapy or during maintenance therapy;
- Understand the benefits and risks of several medical therapies;
- Achieve familiarity how to use immunomodulatory agents in mono- or combination therapy;
- Achieve familiarity how to monitor Crohn’s disease patients who initiated medical therapy or who underwent surgery;
- Recognise indications for surgical management.
Course Instructions:
Welcome to this Interactive Course on Luminal Crohn's disease!
- You will be asked a series of questions throughout this case
- Both correct and incorrect answers will have short feedback as to why the answer was right or wrong as well as links to references, and presentations and podcasts which are found in the e-Library
- You are allowed as many attempts as it takes to get a correct answer before moving on to the next question
- If you wish to skip a question and come back later, there is a quiz navigation in the upper right corner (numbers stand for question numbers, "i" stands for information page, which is usually a "case continued" page)
Duration of the course
- The estimated duration of the course is approximately 30 minutes
- Upon successful completion of the training, you will be directed to a final test
Good luck, and enjoy!
Futher Information:
Organisation: European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation - ECCO
Website: www.ecco-lbd.eu