Medical Therapy of Ulcerative Colitis

Medical Therapy of Ulcerative Colitis will serve as an invaluable resource for individual physicians use who treat patients with ulcerative colitis. The text presents a comprehensive overview of medical therapy for management of specific clinical scenarios and also a focus on the individual medications used to treat patients with ulcerative colitis. The book will be evidence based and focus on simplifying the current treatment to make it easy to understand. The chapters are written by experts in their fields and provide the most up to date information. This book will target gastroenterologists who focus on IBD, general gastroenterologists, fellows, and surgeons such as colorectal surgeons or GI surgeons who may treat patients with ulcerative colitis.

Gary R. Lichtenstein, MD

Professor of Medicine,

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine,

Director, Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

University of Pennsylvania Health System

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania,

Gastroenterology Division,

Philadelphia, PA

USA