Z Gastroenterol 2020; 58(10): 982-1002
DOI: 10.1055/a-1234-8079
Leitlinie

Addendum to S3-Guidelines Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis: Management of Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease in the COVID-19 Pandemic – open questions and answers

Addendum zu den S3-Leitlinien Morbus Crohn und Colitis ulcerosa: Betreuung von Patienten mit chronisch entzündlichen Darmerkrankungen in der COVID-19-Pandemie – offene Fragen und Antworten
Andreas Stallmach
1   Klinik für Innere Medizin IV (Gastroenterologie, Infektiologie und Hepatologie), Universitätsklinikum Jena, Jena
,
Andreas Sturm
2   Klinik für Innere Medizin, Schwerpunkt Gastroenterologie, DRK Kliniken Berlin | Westend, Berlin
,
Irina Blumenstein
3   Medizinische Klinik 1 (Gastroenterologie und Hepatologie, Pneumologie und Allergologie, Endokrinologie und Diabetologie sowie Ernährungsmedizin), Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt
,
Ulf Helwig
4   Internistische Praxengemeinschaft Oldenburg, Oldenburg
,
Sibylle Koletzko
5   Kinderklinik und Kinderpoliklinik im Dr. von Hauner Kinderspital, LMU Klinikum der Universität München, München
,
Petra Lynen
6   Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gastroenterologie, Verdauungs- und Stoffwechselerkrankungen, Berlin
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Carsten Schmidt
7   Medizinische Klinik II (Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie, Endokrinologie, Diabetologie und Infektiologie), Klinikum Fulda, Universitätsmedizin Marburg – Campus Fulda, Fulda
,
Axel Dignass
8   Medizinische Klinik I, Agaplesion Markus Krankenhaus, Frankfurt
,
Torsten Kucharzik
9   Klinik für Innere Medizin, Gastroenterologie, Klinikum Lüneburg, Lüneburg
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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic is a global outbreak of new onset infections with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. To date, more than 3.4 million people have been infected throughout the world. In Germany, approximately 450,000 patients suffer from inflammatory bowel disease; these patients generally require continuous expert care and support. Against the background of a rapidly accumulating knowledge base on SARS-CoV-2, 68 expert authors of the current DGVS guidelines for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis took part in a virtual meeting to compile up-to-date, practice-orientated recommendations aimed at improving the care of patients with IBD. These recommendations address the risk of infection, including the risk for specific patient groups, the possible course of the disease, and consequences for pharmacological and surgical therapies of the underlying disease, as well as general measures for infection prevention and adjuvant prophylactic and therapeutic options.



Publication History

Article published online:
09 October 2020

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