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IM PGY-2 @IUIntMed ||@USJLiban Alumnus🇱🇧|| Trilingual 🌎 || Aspiring Gastroenterologist👩🏻‍⚕️#WomenInMedicine || Weekly #OneMinuteofGI ‼️🩺
Apr 17, 2023 16 tweets 130 min read
@MondayNightIBD 1/Differential of Non-infectious Non -IBD colitis:
🔆 Drug-induced
🔆 Common Variable Immunodeficiency
🔆 Behcet disease
🔆 Segmental Colitis Associated w/ Diverticulosis
🔆 Ischemic Colitis
🔆 Radiation Colitis
🔆 Malignancy

🤔Can you think of other dx?
#MondayNightIBD @MondayNightIBD 2/Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Enterocolitis
📌ICI = monoclonal antibodies that reactivate immune response to tumor cells
📌Activation of T‐cells can cross‐react with host antigens
📌Enterocolitis ⬆️anti‐CTLA‐4 > anti‐PD‐1/PD‐L1 agents
📌Diarrhea
⬆️risk perforation if unrecognized Image
Aug 22, 2022 6 tweets 19 min read
@MondayNightIBD 1/ Hello and Welcome to today's #MondayNightIBD #Back2Basics!

Classifications are💎in IBD‼️Why⁉️:
🔹Clear assessment of disease location/extent/behavior
🔹Objective measure of flare severity
🔹Objective measure of endoscopic activity
➡️Determine treatment and prognosis‼️ Image @MondayNightIBD @MN_GIMD @JosephHabibi_MD @DCharabaty @RomyChamoun @AllonKahn @drsusankais 2/ Classifications in CD:
1⃣Montreal Classification🟰Clinical Classification:
🔹A=Age at dx, L=Location in GI tract, B=Behavior (cf. Slide)
⚠️Behavior pearls:
🔻B1 can progress into B2 or B3
🔻Pts can present with B2 or B3 or both
🔻Perianal disease possible with any B phenotype Image