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Delayed diagnosis of Crohn’s disease is common and has been linked to more structural bowel damage and higher surgery rates. A study examining this relationship in Peru may highlight system-level or clinical factors that affect patients’ risks of needing intestinal surgery.
Adults with Crohn’s disease, newly diagnosed patients, clinicians who manage IBD (gastroenterologists, primary care providers), and researchers interested in diagnostic pathways and surgical outcomes.
The article reports a retrospective observational analysis using medical records from a national referral center in Lima, Peru, covering patients seen between 2020 and 2025.
The authors frame diagnostic delay as a common problem in Crohn’s disease and review prior international and regional studies connecting longer diagnostic intervals with strictures, fistulas, and higher surgical rates.
The paper evaluates associations between diagnostic delay and Crohn’s-related intestinal surgery (including resections and other surgical management) and uses routinely collected clinical data; it does not report a prospective intervention.
The study is useful for understanding patterns and associations in this Peruvian tertiary-care cohort but does not by itself prove causation or test a strategy to shorten delays.
Findings come from retrospective review of medical records at a single tertiary referral hospital in Lima (2020–2025). Such observational data can show associations but not prove causation; local health-system factors may influence diagnostic delay and surgical rates.
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