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      Symptoms from Crohn's disease Crohn's disease an inflammatory bowel disease condition characterized by skip lesions and transmural inflammation that can effect your entire GI tract from mouth to anus. (Feuerstein, and Cheifetz, 2017) Diarrhea, abdominal pain, weight loss, nausea, vomiting's, and in some cases fevers and chills are all presenting symptoms of Crohn's disease. There are also three main disease phenotypes, inflammatory, structuring, and penetrating. While there are these three underlying disease phenotypes, there is also the chance that up to a third of patience will develop perianal involvement of their disease. In some cases extraintestinal manifestations may develop. (Feuerstein, and Cheifetz, 2017) This diagnosis is typically discovered with endoscopic and/or radiologic findings. Crohn's management is usually done with pharmacologic therapy. which is determined based on the severity and underlying disease phenotype. The goal of management is t...

                                                                                           Overview of Crohn Disease    Crohn disease is described the same today as it was in the past. It is a disease that causes inflammation or swelling, and irritation of any part of the digestive tract. ( U.S Department of health and Human services, 2011) What has changed from the past of Crohn's is the information we have researched and learned about Crohn's. For example Crohn's disease is one of the two main forms of diseases of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, which are named inflammatory bowel disease. (IBD) Accompanying Crohn's disease is chronic or long lasting inflammation that can cause scar tissue to form in the ...