Digestive disorders affect millions of Americans each year. These conditions involve the digestive tract, which is also known as the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. The GI tract includes the esophagus, ...

Did you know if you unfolded your intestines, they'd be taller than a giraffe? Yep, they form a digestive tube so lengthy it's got two sections. The so-called small intestine is about 22 feet long ...

Recent studies have reported an increasing spectrum of human monogenic diseases that can present with IBD-like intestinal inflammation. A substantial proportion of patients ... there are defects in ...

Background Metabolic disorders and inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD ... but may virtually be observed in any organ system (box 2).10 11 Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including Crohn’s disease (CD) ...