Gastrointest Endosc Clin N Am. 2022 Oct;32(4):597-614.doi: 10.1016/j.giec.2022.05.005. Epub 2022 Sep 7.

Bo Shen ¹

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¹Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Columbia University Irving Medical Center and New York Presbyterian Hospital, 161 Fort Washington Avenue, Herbert Irving Pavilion-Suite 843, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: bs3270@cumc.columbia.edu.

Abstract

Interventional inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) or endoscopic therapy for IBD or IBD surgery-associated complications has emerged as a main treatment modality bridging medical and surgical treatment. It delivers therapy more definitive than medical therapy and less invasive than surgical treatment. The main applications of interventional IBD are strictures, fistulas, abscesses, bleeding, foreign bodies, postoperative complications, and colitis-associated neoplasia. The major endoscopic treatment modalities are balloon dilation, stricturotomy, strictureplasty, fistulotomy, sinusotomy, septectomy, banding ligation, incision and drainage, polypectomy, endoscopic mucosal resection, and endoscopic submucosal dissection.