Cure8 research brief
Strictures cause obstructive symptoms and repeat surgery in Crohn’s disease; endoscopic options can relieve obstruction and potentially avoid or postpone surgery for some patients.
Gastroenterologists and GI surgeons treating Crohn’s disease, interventional endoscopists, researchers in therapeutic endoscopy, and patients with symptomatic intestinal strictures considering non-surgical options.
This is an invited review article in the World Journal of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy summarizing pathophysiology, patient selection, and endoscopic techniques for Crohn’s-related strictures, including balloon dilation, stricturotomy, and self-expanding metal stents.
The authors emphasize multidisciplinary decision-making with gastroenterologists, surgeons, and radiologists to choose appropriate candidates and plan procedures.
The review covers outcomes and complications of endoscopic approaches compared with surgery, and discusses current limitations and future perspectives in therapeutic endoscopy for Crohn’s strictures.
Clinical takeaway: for patients with symptomatic, short or accessible strictures, endoscopic treatment is presented as a durable, bowel-sparing option in selected cases, but requires careful patient selection and expertise.
This is a review article (invited) published in a peer-reviewed endoscopy journal. It summarizes existing evidence rather than reporting new trial results; applicability depends on local expertise and individual patient anatomy and disease factors.
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