Vnitr Lek 2021, 67(2):92-96 | DOI: 10.36290/vnl.2021.020

Extraintestinal complications of inflammatory bowel diseases

Vít Navrátil¹, Silvia Cveková¹, Peter Slodička¹, Květoslava Aiglová¹, Barbora Pipek^1,2,3, Přemysl Falt¹

¹ II. interní klinika - gastroenterologická a geriatrická LF UP a FN Olomouc

² Centrum péče o zažívací trakt, Nemocnice AGEL Ostrava Vítkovice, a. s.

³ Ostravská univerzita, Lékařská fakulta, Ostrava

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) includes Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). Those are chronic gastrointestinal disorders of inflammatory nature and not fully known etiology. As a result of their immune-mediated mechanism and complex impact on the whole organism other organs than gastrointestinal system may be affected in many ways. These extraintestinal manifestations (EIM) and complications may severely deteriorate prognosis of the patient, cause his morbidity and worsen the quality of life. While classical extraintestinal manifestations, such as enteropathic arthropathy, skin or eye involvement or primary sclerosing cholangitis, share common immunopathological mechanism with IBD, whole range of other disorders may result from various anatomical or metabolic abnormalities caused by IBD or its treatment. This review focus on the most common extraintestinal complications, such as anaemia, metabolic bone disease, biliary and urolithiasis, which we meet in our daily clinical practice.

Keywords: anemia, inflammatory bowel disease, lithiasis, metabolic bone disease, extraintestinal complications.

Published: April 21, 2021  Show citation