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"Crohn's disease is a lifelong disease arising from an interaction between genetic and environmental factors (...)
The precise aetiology is unknown and therefore a causal therapy is not yet available (...) Many patients live with a considerable symptom burden despite medical treatment in the hope that the aetiology of the disease will shortly be revealed and curative therapies emerge. Since it is uncertain that the
precise pathogenesis of Crohn's disease will be revealed anytime soon, clinicians have to advise patients on the basis of information available today rather than an unknown future. Despite a multiplicity of randomised trials there will always be many questions that can only be answered by the exercise of judgement and opinion. This leads to differences in practice between clinicians, which may be brought into sharp relief by differences in
emphasis between countries. The Consensus endeavours to address these differences".
https://www.ecco-ibd.eu/images/stories/docs/guidelines/2010_cd_guidelines_definitions_diagnosis.pdf
The precise aetiology is unknown and therefore a causal therapy is not yet available (...) Many patients live with a considerable symptom burden despite medical treatment in the hope that the aetiology of the disease will shortly be revealed and curative therapies emerge. Since it is uncertain that the
precise pathogenesis of Crohn's disease will be revealed anytime soon, clinicians have to advise patients on the basis of information available today rather than an unknown future. Despite a multiplicity of randomised trials there will always be many questions that can only be answered by the exercise of judgement and opinion. This leads to differences in practice between clinicians, which may be brought into sharp relief by differences in
emphasis between countries. The Consensus endeavours to address these differences".
https://www.ecco-ibd.eu/images/stories/docs/guidelines/2010_cd_guidelines_definitions_diagnosis.pdf
