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CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASES
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Ten million people worldwide are affected by IBD, including 300,000 in France. That's 8,000 new cases per year, or nearly one patient per hour.
Colonoscopy is an endoscopy technique which reveals ulcers of the digestive mucosa (here at the Limoges University Hospital).
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This article is taken from the monthly Sciences et Avenir n°940, dated June 2025.
IBD. Four letters for chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis). These debilitating and incurable diseases cause ulcers in the intestinal wall (small, colon, rectum) that can perforate.
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