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Medical Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis

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Many different and evolving approaches are available for the treatment of ulcerative colitis. A comprehensive treatment that includes not just the disease but also the patient (often severely debilitated by a lifelong disease, in a proportion of cases refractory to standard treatments) and an effective patient-doctor alliance may improve the overall results.

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De Iorio, F., Benini, L., Tacchella, N., Vantini, I. (2006). Medical Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis. In: Delaini, G.G. (eds) Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Familial Adenomatous Polyposis. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/88-470-0434-9_23

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