Treatment of isolated gastric Crohn's disease with inhaled corticosteroids

Case Rep Gastroenterol. 2008 Nov 5;2(3):363-8. doi: 10.1159/000158543.

Abstract

Isolated gastric Crohn's disease is unusual and a rare cause of pyloric outlet obstruction. If medical therapy is ineffective, patients may require surgery to relieve gastric outlet obstruction. Herein we describe a patient with isolated gastric Crohn's disease with pyloric outlet obstruction who was steroid-dependent and had a relapse despite receiving biologic and immunomodulatory therapy, but ultimately responded to topical treatment with inhaled corticosteroids.

Keywords: Gastric Crohn's disease; Gastric outlet obstruction; Inhaled corticosteroids.

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