Letter from the Editor: New ACG Guideline for the Management of Crohn’s Disease?

摘要

Have you read the new guideline from the American College of Gastroenterology for managing adult patients with Crohn’s disease? The complete guideline—all 60 recommendations and 53 summary statements—can be found online at https://www.nature.com/articles/ajg201827.pdf, as well as in the April issue of The American Journal of Gastroenterology. In the Advances in IBD column in this month’s issue of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, I discuss highlights of the guideline, which I worked on with 5 other gastroenter-ologists. The column focuses on guideline recommendations regarding diagnosis and the use of endoscopy, medical treatment (including the role of combination therapy and the use of therapeutic drug monitoring), surgical treatment, and postoperative management.